Image: Nintendo Yesterday, there was a story doing the rounds about a Nintendo shareholder who asked the company if they had any plans to revive past IPs such as the futuristic racing series F-Zero, the RPG Baten Kaitos, and various other titles like Wario Land. It turns out this question didn’t come cheap. Speaking to ...
With these gold coins. photo: BEHROUZ MORE / AFP (Getty Images) Today Nintendo announced it‘S Acquisition of long-term partner SRD (Systems Research and Development), a company that has helped program some of the company’s most well-known games, including Super Mario Bros. Nintendo acquired 100 percent of SRD’s outstanding shares for an undisclosed sum, making the ...
Yep, that’s the Nintendo logo.photo: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP (Getty Images) while Xbox other Sony are entering an acquisition arms race, Nintendo isn’t so eager to snap up a slew of game studios. IAt a recent investors’ meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about acquiring game companies—a timely question for sure. “Our brand was built upon ...
photo: Nintendo Last week, a couple of analysts in a Report from Bloomberg asserts tcap Nintendo’s new OLED model, the Switch included “upgrades” [that] are valued at about $ 10 more per unit, “although the console costs $ 50 more than its predecessor at the checkout. Today Nintendo took the unusual step of publicly refuting ...
Shigeru Miyamto (L) and Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa (R)photo: KAZUHIRO NOGI (Getty Images) At Nintendo’s 81st annual general meeting, attendees had a question-and-answer area to ask all kinds of business-related questions. One was so obvious, however, that I can’t believe it’s never been asked: someone just wanted to know what everyone’s favorite video games are. ...
Mergers and acquisitions have been the talk of the town since Microsoft completed a $7.5 billion deal with Bethesda last year, so what’s Nintendo’s approach to acquisitions moving forward? In a press conference following the company’s full-year earnings results earlier this week, president Shuntaro Furukawa touched on Nintendo’s ¥1 trillion ($9.2 billion) cash reserves and ...
