Ka-pi96 said:
A deal Nintendo made a year ago and a deal that Crytek made recently?
Don't think they are related. |
Nintendo listed the $100 million cost a year ago. Read the article I linked to. The Crytek deal isn't a new one - they've just released new information about the deal that stabilised Crytek's financial situation a little under a year ago; the info was provided in an interview done recently.
Here's the key part of that article:
"Speaking to Develop at GDC, Crytek co-founder Faruk Yerli and head of PR Jens Schaefer said rather than securing funding from an investor as many had believed, the injection of money had come from a new licensing deal that it had been working on for a "long time"."
Notice the past tense? And notice the "working on for a long time"? They had been working on it for a long time, even back then. Which means it would make sense for Nintendo to be establishing the "acquisition" somewhere around the time they actually did.
Another interesting thing, which has only just happened: Nintendo announced NX. Curious timing, given that the heading of the article I provided was "Publisher hopes to announce partner soon". If Nintendo didn't want the partnership announced until after they'd started speaking about NX, then everything lines up pretty well.
