Nintendo to Acquire Next Level Games

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DonFerrari said:

VideoGameAccountant said:

This is what I'm thinking. They haven't had a lot of successes outside of Nier. Definitely not to sustain self publishing. I think they'll realize how much it cost to make a game without a publisher and still market it.

TheBraveGallade said:

RIP Alphadream though, thats another company nintendo should have bought...

The problem with Alpha Dream is they had a lot of outstanding debt, so Nintendo would have had to pay that off to get them. Their only claim to fame was a Mario spin off that wasn't doing too well. Nintendo did post job ads soon after, so I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to poach the talent at least. 

Don't think it would be impossible for Nintendo to buy the company for 0 dollars but freeing the current owners of all debt, but since I didn't look at the numbers even that may be to much money to be worth.

Nintendo would still have to pay their creditors. It wasn't a massive amount of money but it was still quite a lot for not that much gain. 

At the same time, they probably weren't going to keep the Mario and Luigi games going since they were doing poorly after Dream Team. It would make more sense to absorb the employees and put them working on Mario projects (as they are familiar with the IP).