There isn't much marginal benefit in Nintendo buying Atlus.

[Otakumegane]

Egann said:

noname2200 said:

Otakumegane said:

They also bought Retro Studios for less than 1 million, and Monolith Soft for what, 1.73% of Namco Shares. Nintendo doesn't make multimillion dollar studio acqusitions.

Are you sure about those Monolith figures? They don't seem right.

Nintendo already had something like an 86% interest in Monolith before Namco sold it, so a tiny transaction to clear up loose ends sounds about right. Nintendo's general MO for acquires seems to be to get leverage more than use the checkbook. And in this case, with Index's debt, they do have leverage. The question is if it's enough.

The 80% they got was backn in 2007. That's when they actually bought them. The rest of the stocks came later.