2022 began with two major acquisitions in the video game industry, microsoft I buy ActivisionBlizzard for almost 70,000 million dollars and Sony welcomed him to Bungie to the playstation studios. For its part, fans from Nintendo they wondered if the company will make any move or not.
With the success that it is currently having, it was possible that it would decline to make any purchases derived from this environment. In accordance with Bloomberg, the head of the company stated the following in an interview:
“Our brand is built on products made with dedication by our employees, and having a large number of people who don’t have Nintendo DNA in our group would not be to the company’s advantage.” Their response seems to indicate that they do not plan to acquire external development studios or work teams.
The company’s sales figures indicate that there is no need to do so yet. In accordance with Cityam, Switch It has sold just over 22 million units each year, making it the most successful video game console in history.
In fact, the company has only occasionally bought third-party developers in the past and not with the same speed as microsoft Y Sony in the last two years.
Nintendo only bought a studio in 2021
The last acquisition from Nintendo of an external study was in January 2021. On that occasion, the company bought from Next Level Games, the team behind Luigi’s Mansion 3, Mario Strikers and the reboot of Punch Out!!
The console is still in the middle of its useful life, the video game company hopes that Switch be 7 years in the market. For this reason, we still cannot know if Next Level Games It will be your last purchase or if you will change your sales strategy in the coming years.
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