Nintendo has acquired Miami-based Shiver Leisure, a port studio that was liable for bringing titles like Hogwarts Legacy and Mortal Kombat 1 to Nintendo Swap.
As reported by IGN, Nintendo shared a press launch that mentioned it had entered an settlement with Embracer Group – Shiver Leisure’s former proprietor – to buy the corporate in its entirety. “Nintendo will purchase 100% of the excellent shares of Shiver and make it a completely owned subsidiary,” the press launch reads.
“By welcoming Shiver’s skilled and achieved growth workforce,” the assertion continues, “Nintendo goals to safe high-level assets for porting and growing software program titles.
“Going ahead, even after it turns into part of the Nintendo group, Shiver’s focus will stay the identical, persevering with commissions that port and develop software program for a number of platforms together with Nintendo Swap.”
That final half is necessary, because it might sign that the Kyoto-based writer needs Shiver Leisure to port and/or develop upcoming video games for the Nintendo Swap 2 along with its presently out there {hardware}.
Nintendo has, in fact, but to disclose any stable particulars about its next-generation console. Nonetheless, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has said that the corporate is getting ready to unveil its subsequent system “inside this fiscal 12 months”.
Whereas we’re anticipating the Nintendo Swap 2 to characteristic a usually robust lineup of first-party video games, it is probably that the corporate needs to maintain up a gentle stream of third-party releases too. Getting access to a notable port studio like Shiver Leisure readily available for that is probably an excellent signal. Particularly so, if the succeeding console is to be, as rumors counsel, a extra highly effective model of what we have already got.
In different Nintendo Swap 2-related information, it was reported final month that the console might be bigger in measurement and have magnetic Pleasure-Con controllers, which might substitute the present rail system that attaches them to the Nintendo Swap.
