Am I the only one who finds the business and financial side of Nintendo/the games industry as a whole to be super interesting?
Nintendo owning small chunks of companies like Square Enix and Bandai Namco make sense as it helps cement partnerships, but it also means that Nintendo benefits from these companies doing well even when they are publishing games that skips Nintendo’s hardware.
Shout outs to Nintendo Forecast. I really appreciate him having a channel that actually focuses on this kind of stuff.
Video here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtsrwTp_dY
Posted by Wyluca95
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Reminds me when thr great debate of who was gonna do better fortnite or pubg. They both ran on unreal
Nintendo has owned third party shares since they started making consoles.
I’m sure having a stake in a company gives them more oversight when doing joint ventures as well.
I heard they even have a stake in the Pokémon. Company. 😱
It’s not as unique and special. All the other companies also have stocks in a lot of other companies. it’s just about diversifying your portfolio. In case Nintendo has a bad console generation, they won’t go broke because they can have money coming in from other places and they have stocks worth hundreds of millions they can use to get loans and financial help.
They also own a piece of Konami, DeNA, Niantic, and a few others …
This is extremely normal behavior from large companies. Not unique to Nintendo
They also own 5% of Cygames which led to the creation of Dragalia Lost.
It is fairly common for Japanese entities to own small pieces of companies that they work with. It is less common in Western companies.
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Nintendo used to own parts of rare before rare was sold to Microsoft