patjuan32 on 27 August 2010
jarrod said:
MrT-Tar said:
jarrod said:
patjuan32 said:
Nintendo already owned a sizable share of NDCube. All they did was buy out their partner. NdCube developed the FZero games for the GBA, Maximum Velocity and GP Legends. There may be another title but I can not think of it right now.
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They were majority shareholder before, with a controlling 70% stake. This isn't really news, Nintendo essentially owned NdCube before and even listed them as a consolidated subsidiary on their balance sheets.
Other studios Nintendo (mostly) owns include...
- Brownie Brown (100%)
- HAL Laboratory (100%)
- Intelligent Systems (100%)
- Retro Studios (100%)
- Monolith Software (80%)
- Project Sora (76%)
- Genius Sonority (56%)
- Ambrella (???%)
- Creatures Inc. (???%)
- Noise (???%)
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I know Namco still owns some of Monolith, but do you know who owns the rest of project sora? Is it Sakurai himself?
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Yeah, Sakurai owns the rest of Project Sora. Namco Bandai still owns 16% of Monolith btw, so not a little stake but Nintendo seems to have shouldered the burden of finances (to the company's benefit imo). It's no wonder that Tales Studio guy was making a public plea with Nintendo to buy them out too.
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Was he really? I never heard this. Do you have a link?
If Nintendo is successful at the moment, it’s because they are good, and I cannot blame them for that. What we should do is try to be just as good.----Laurent Benadiba
