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Nintendo now fully owns Xenoblade studio Monolith Soft


Xenoblade studio Monolith Soft is now 100 percent owned by Nintendo.

Watch on YouTube Nintendo has not officially announced the change, but its 100 percent ownership of the company was recently added to Monolith Soft's website, as spotted by Automaton. Monolith Soft began its era as a Nintendo-exclusive studio in 2008 with a range of smaller titles, including Wii shooter Disaster: Day of Crisis and RPG Soma Bringer for Nintendo DS. It has assisted Nintendo with all three Splatoon titles, the past three Animal Crossing games, and is now a regular co-developer on The Legend of Zelda series, with credits on Skyward Sword, A Link Between Worlds, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

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