When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. 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. Nintendo acquired 80% of the studio’s shares in 2007, before also buying 16% more from its previous parent company in 2011, giving the console maker a 96% stake in the company for over a decade. Monolith Soft’s co-founders Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi, and Yasuyuki Honne held onto the remaining 4% for years, though it seems like they’ve now given the rest over as well: the …
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