What is Nintendo up to? While we’re all getting excited about the arrival of the Nintendo Switch 2, they’re quietly buying up companies’ shares with some unknown master plan in mind. Their latest acquisition seems to be Monolith Soft, the studio behind the Xenoblade Chronicles games. Ninty has reportedly now acquired 100% of the company’s shares which makes them the new owners, but what have they got in store?
Are we about to see a new Xenoblade Chronicles game for the Nintendo Switch 2? Are there plans on merging the companies so that Monolith can carry on with the great work they did on Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom by helping to make a new Zelda title? There is definitely a history between these two companies with Monolith already being part-owned by Nintendo since 2007.
According to Automation Media, Nintendo bought 80% of the company’s shares from Namco back in 2007 and increased their stake to 96% in 2011, leaving the founders of the company with just 4%. Now they’ve taken the leap taken the whole hog.
What do you think Nintendo has in the pipeline? Let us know which games you want to see from Monolith on the Switch’s successor below!
