After pumping out Xenoblade Chronicles games for a decade and helping out on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Monolith Soft is now fully owned by Nintendo
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Nintendo now fully owns Monolith Software, more than a decade after both companies first got into bed together.
Monolith Soft has long been producing games and series with Xeno in the title, starting withSquare Enix’s Xenogears,Bandai Namco’s Xenosaga, and now Nintendo’s Xenoblade games. It also supports everything from Super Smash Bros. Brawl to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but its relationship with the Big N didn’t start with a clear-cut acquisition.
Nothing will properly change between the two companies since Monolith Soft has been almost exclusively working on Nintendo projects for more than a decade at this point, but it’s an interesting development regardless, especially as major Nintendo buyouts are few and far between.
For now, Monolith Soft is gearing up tobreak Xenoblade Chronicles X out of its Wii U prison cellnext year. The JRPG powerhouse is probably also working on the next Xenoblade game - or maybe even a totally new thing - that we might even see pop up on the incomingNintendo Switch 2.
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