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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 15 points 8 months ago

I'd love to see Monolith games come natively to other platforms, but they've absolutely flourished under Nintendo so far. They've been given a lot of creative freedom with their own games, and also have had a lot of success as a support studio on the Legend of Zelda games, Splatoon games, and a lot of the other major games.

They also have a reputation for being one of the better japanese developers to work for, with overtime not normally being allowed. They also seem to give their employees easy development deadlines, with games like Xenoblade 3 releasing several months early (because they finished it early), and Xenoblade 1 remake having extra content, because they finished it early and used the remaining development time to work on other parts of the game.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

They already owned 80% and then 96%, so practically speaking it's not really a big deal, except for maybe investors.

Still, love Monolith Soft, so let's hope it brings better things.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Monolith is pretty much the only reason I've already decided on getting their next console - it would be strange for Nintendo to not want them. It may be more niche over here, but JRPGs are the (one of the?) biggest genre in Japan.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Personally I don't really care for their games, but I know they have a lot of fans.

Is it good or bad news though? Would they consider multiplatform games, which is better and healthier? Because that ain't happening for sure now, anymore.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As per the article Nintendo already owned 96% of the shares. Original founders had only 4% shares till March. Sometimes after that, Nintendo has acquired those 4% too.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is releasing multiplats out of the question when a stakeholder has 96%? Otherwise I fail to see what the connection is to my comment

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The connection is that there's almost no difference between 96% and 100%. When you own 96% of the company (and thus your opinion has a 96% weight), you control the company.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Fair enough

[–] sirico@feddit.uk -4 points 8 months ago

Time to shutdown every JRPG