Nintendo has introduced plans to accumulate Bandai Namco’s Singapore studio.
Bandai Namco Studios Singapore was established in 2013 and has labored with Nintendo previously, together with contributing to the event of the Splatoon collection.
Now Nintendo has introduced that, topic to approval, it plans to accumulate 80% of the studio’s shares on April 1, 2026, with the remaining shares to be acquired “after a sure interval”.
Nintendo says the studio will develop into a subsidiary of Nintendo and can be renamed Nintendo Studios Singapore, however will in any other case “proceed its growth operations”.
In keeping with Nintendo, the studio has “robust experience in creating in-game artwork property”, which suggests it is going to primarily proceed to be a assist studio as soon as Nintendo acquires it.
“This acquisition may have solely a minor impact on Nintendo’s outcomes for this fiscal yr,” the corporate says.
One other Nintendo-owned subsidiary induced a stir final month when Nintendo launched a pair of movies which turned out to be a Pikmin animated brief.
These movies had been the work of Nintendo Photos, which was once often called Dynamo Photos till Nintendo acquired it in 2022 and renamed it to “give attention to growth of visible content material utilising Nintendo IP”.
Apart from a pre-acquisition dedication to work on Demise Stranding 2, Nintendo Photos has solely labored on Nintendo video games because the 2022 takeover, together with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4, Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise, Tremendous Mario RPG, and One other Code: Recollection.
Different Nintendo-owned subsidiaries embody 1-Up Studio (previously Brownie Brown, helped with design on Tremendous Mario 3D World and Tremendous Mario Odyssey), Monolith Tender (Xenoblade), Subsequent Degree Video games (Luigi’s Mansion 3), Nintendo Dice (Mario Occasion) and Retro Studios (Metroid Prime 4).
