Nintendo and acquisitions | What's their strategy? Who will Nintendo buy next?

  / nintendoforecast   - Early, exclusive and ad-free content! Nintendo has always been independent-minded, especially when it comes to buying studios. But recent comments from president Shuntaro Furukawa have reignited talk of acquisitions. So is Nintendo changing its philosophy? In this video, we explore: Nintendo’s history of acquisitions — from Retro Studios to MonolithSoft, SRD, Next Level Games and beyond Why Nintendo chooses to buy (or not buy) other developers What these moves say about Nintendo’s future strategy Which studios — like Grezzo, Intelligent Systems, HAL Laboratory, or even MercurySteam — could be next From Iwata’s resistance to mergers and acquisitions in 2008 to Furukawa’s modern approach, we’ll trace how Nintendo’s thinking has evolved and what it means for the Switch 2 era and beyond.