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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I too would like to see a link to that. Buy Tales studio, you buy Tales (even if Namco holds remaining rights, all the spirit of it would migrate over with the talent anyway)
