@Domenic1407 I wouldn't say that that's necessarily true: keep in mind that Good-Feel developed Kirby's Epic Yarn, Yoshi's Wooly World, and Wario Land: Shake It. They don't always hit the mark, but I think it's important to recognize the good projects that have come out of them. :)
I disagree, they've consistently been able to get games that the Switch should not be able to run at all to be brought to the system in a playable state. Yeah, Mortal Kombat 1 looks hilariously bad, but it's functionally a PS5 game being ran on hardware that's more in line with the PS3 in terms of specs than the PS4.
Fun fact: Japanese game companies hate working with Nintendo on games because often times Nintendo will steal their best talent. It happened specifically the Sonic Generations team who ended up working on Mario Odyssey
These guys are actually located in my hometown. I used to drive past their offices many times without realizing they were a game studio. They really hit the jackpot here, because they basically have a permanent guarantee of financial stability now. The chance that Nintendo will ever shut them down is absolutely minuscule with the amount of surplus money they’re sitting on.
Nintendo loves buying things that actually help them, rather than just buying up IPs to hoard and never use. Nintendo has been struggling with hardware recently, so them buying these guys shows a desire to improve.
I respect this acquisition. Shiver doesn’t have any IP of their own, so it’s obvious Nintendo’s interested in the talent instead. I’ve heard Shiver’s ports of MK11 and Hogwarts were pretty good. Having a studio to court 3rd parties by helping them get their games on Nintendo systems is a unique idea and it’ll definitely help get more games on Nintendo hardware in the future.
@Yoshizuyuner even then, if it's interesting enough Nintendo might let them make it anyway, I doubt they'd say no to another exclusive for the Switch 2 if the ip interests them
@@jarde1989im not saying they were bad for not buying them up. Maybe it would have been a net loss to save them but im just talking from how it sucks for the games they produced specifically the Mario and Luigi series
The acquisition of Shiver is literally outlined in their document on their twitter page on Nintendo Co Ltd... they were purchased to specialize in ports
Since they are mostly a porting studio this makes perfect sense for Nintendo. They can get more games into the next switch and get paid for the privilege.
Of note for NLG, that seems to be a case of not wanting history to repeat. NLG, just like Rare, was going to be sold to another company either way. For Rare, Nintendo was not interested in buying out companies. This ended up with Rare instead going to Microsoft. Nintendo didn't foresee this possibility, and they lost one of their greatest allies. NLG wasn't in a bad spot like Rare, but the investors (I believe) were just done with them. They were going to sell the company one way or another. Nintendo didn't want what happened with Rare to happen again because NLG is one of their best partners. So they went ahead and bit the bullet
Technically Nintendo did actually throw in an offer to buy Rare but it was literally too little and too late since there were now other players involved besides just Nintendo and Microsoft (I forget who tbh) who were bidding higher.
Honestly, I would love to know what led the investors to feel that way. NLG's previous game (Luigi's Mansion 3) had sold 14 million copies. That's guaranteed to be utterly ludicrous profit on the budget the game had assuming they get a cut of each sale, even if we don't know what it was exactly.
@@lukeo5761 Investors don't actually care about the longterm strength of a company or their assets. They care about how much _growth_ the company can achieve. If a company has a crazy successful product launch but the product hits market saturation quickly and the next launch is another 5 years away, then they basically perceive the company as having "peaked," even if they can maintain steady sales of that product. Basically, it doesn't matter how good their revenue stream is - if the line isn't going _up,_ the investors see them as, at best, an asset that needs to be liquidated before it loses value.
@@lukeo5761 Maybe they didn't foresee much growth for them? 14 million copies is a lot, so much so that it's hard to beat that metric. The investors could get more money investing more into companies with a higher expected profit and potential growth.
Unlike *certain gaming companies* Nintendo’s acquisitions usually leave me going “holy cow that’s smart.” I was particularly happy with Next Level (I love them so much), but this one is also super smart of them! Also, on the Mortal Kombat 1 port, that was only bad because they rushed to be day and date with PS5/PC. They ported Mortal Kombat 11 to Switch and it worked really well and sold super well too, so I assume WB saw that and made them do a rush job for extra sales. :(
It's almost like acquiring studios is meant to improve your output, not just have someone else do your work for you. Surely big companies other than Nintendo understand this, right?
It also didn’t help that WB/Netherrealms was insistent they target 60 fps. If they had let them target 30 at launch and then patch up to 60 later it probably wouldn’t have looked so bad.
@@alexgrunde6682 you should not be asking for a 30 fps fighting game. it literally breaks the game on a fundamental level since attacks are tied to frame data and this version would literally have a whole different meta. the issue being mortal kombat either shouldnt be on the switch at all or make some parts from the ground up to perform better
@@alexgrunde6682pretty much what Dorf said. Fighting games NEED to be at 60fps. One of the reasons the PS Classic was so disappointing was some games like Tekken were the PAL version, which run at 50fps. It makes the game super jank and combos that work in one version won't work in another.
Parasocial feelings towards corpos aside, I definitely trust more in Nintendo acquiring studios for projects, certainly more than Microsoft with their lack of projects despite going gung-ho with acquisitions
The fact they bought a company that makes ports put together with the fact they've been going harder on emulation and we're expecting a new console, I wonder if the new Nintendo console will be focused on bringing old games to the forefront. They've already started going for it and if they make thier new consle dual screen somehow I feel like that would be a banger. Have a company make ports of the old while you focus on newer games. Release more games with half the effort. It seems like a no brainer.
I feel as if Nintendo prefers having a strong relationship with these companies rather than outright owning them. That way, they WANT to make games for Nintendo platforms. Instead of being obligated to.
Indeed, I know some wonder why not buy a studio that's already works well with you but it's important to remember that studio independence and culture is important. When companies get bought, both those things are at risk. Nintendo letting studios be independent for better or worse is a sign of a company you can have a strong relationship with.
buying a mostly a port studio is smart for the long term as it means you can bring over 3rd party games to your console, have them even better optimized as they are working closer with Nintendo, while having a "low" power console. This is the most sustainable model for future gaming especially since nintendo's games are not made to be super demanding so they don't need a bunch of power on the console to do what they want to do.
They seem to be a studio that specializes in porting games from more powerful systems to the switch, so my theory is that they will be making switch 2 games cross-gen
Microsoft showed that just buying companies just because there is a chance to make a lot of money is a huge risk. Nintendo chooses to make their own studios better and bigger so that they have complete control over all projects. And if they buy a company, it is a company that they can trust completely. Nintendo knows that third party support on the Switch 2 will be huge, so Shiver will help with that
Arlo also mentioned that Shiver was part of the Embracer Group, which has been laying off a ton of people recently. Nintendo may have saved them from being canned and even got it for cheap. With the power of the next-gen switch and the quality control of Nintendo, we shouldn’t have a Mortal Combat 1 situation (PS5 game quickly ported to the Xbox360 powered Switch)
I think this is cool! A port specialist for the next system, this seems like a really cool utility and an exciting prospect the future. Maybe they’ll try to be much more third-party friendly next generation!
I mean when nintendo bought monolith soft back in 2006 because they had potential to make so it make sense to buy other studio also monolith soft was struggling as well
And that was a huge win on Nintendo's part, Giving them the Xenoblade series and a studio with a lot of the experience with open world games that could help them with their own series like Zelda.
Is Monolithsoft Nintendo's best studio buyout ever? They were slept on for a while but from XC2 onwards Monolith has been an uber important part of their company both IP-wise and in regards to pure manpower and making their biggest games play as well as they do...
Not to defend Embracer, but more for some clarification. Embracer had a $2 Billion deal with Savvy Games Group which had already previously invested $1 Billion into Embracer. Embracer unfortunately took this as a opportunity to buy up a bunch of studios to secure themselves as one of the next big entertainment groups. At the last minute Savvy pulled out of the deal (as far as I know, the reason still isn't public) which caused Embracer to start selling / closing everything. I remember watching a video with Bellular talking about the whole situation and then seeing videos of the CEO just looking absolutely destroyed over the news and I don't doubt that part of it is knowing how many people are about to have their lives made worse from this. I don't know the full scope of the entire deal between Savvy and Embracer, but most of all this could have been avoided if Embracer had waited for the deal to close before buying everything.
Apparently Iwata was good friends with the former head of this studio, Shiver obv has use in the porting department but id be surprised if that wasn't a big part of it.
I know some wonder why not buy a studio that's already works well with you but it's important to remember that studio independence and culture is important. When companies get bought, both those things are at risk. Nintendo letting studios be independent for better or worse is a sign of a company you can have a strong relationship with.
I'm really hoping that Nintendo shows what honest growth through these kinds of deals looks like. There's nothing to tell me it won't be, but I really hope in light of studio shuttering as of late that this can be a success story
これは非常に的を絞った、妥当な範囲の買収のように思えます。また、Switch 時代の他の買収 (SRD、Nintendo Pictures) とも一致しています。 Nonetheless I was really surprised by Nintendo purchasing an Embracer studio, but this acquisition makes a lot of sense. Embracer has been selling off many studios after their failed deal with the Saudi government, and Nintendo could use extra support to build up the Switch successor's library with third party ports. They don't do acquisitions that often, so this must be a big priority for them.
The interesting thing about Shiver is that they ported Mortal Kombat 11 to the Switch which is widely seen to be one of those "impossible ports" as the game actually runs at 60FPS in combat and was very competently done. Also, both MK1 and Hogwarts Legacy on the Switch run significantly better NOW than they did at launch which is usually more a testament to a studio not being given enough time to make a port happen. The thing is, for the next several years Shiver will just continue to do exactly what they were already doing as the tweet indicated so assuming they are already contracted to port a few games over to Switch 2 the real benefit from Nintendo is that they can give Shiver even more tech support for optimization with them becoming first party and other than that they can just leave them alone and they'll continue to do what they do. Really, I only see Nintendo pouring additional funds into Shiver IF they feel like they need to scale up their operation so that they can handle multiple projects at once as they are quite small currently (the number I saw was something around 20 employees).
Shiver now being a 1st party studio could also mean that situations like what happened with MK1 is less likely to, since Nintendo probably wouldn't let 3rd party companies try to pull that kind of opressive timetable with one of their own personal studios.
One thing I can already see happening is maybe Nintendo offers Shivers services to Microsoft for Call of Duty ports, though I suspect MS would likely just have a studio like Beenox do it. They already have Unreal Engine familiarity thanks to the Mortal Kombat and Hogwarts ports, so they could be Nintendo’s big go to to tell third parties “got an Unreal project? We’ve got a studio right here to help ya out!”
Apparently shiver is working on their own ip before this happened so now Nintendo gets a new first party game in their line up I wonder what kind of game it is
It's random at first but it makes sense when you think about it. Like you said it seems they are getting ready on all fronts for the next system. Apparently Shiver will continue to be able to work externally through commissions which is great. Hoping for a fruitful relationship between the two My guess for their first 1st party port would be Zelda related
Nintendo generally only acquire studios who have shown interest in becoming a part of their brand, thus avoiding the controversial purchases that is otherwise frequent in the market. Therefore your guess about there possibly having been talks behind the scenes is, based on track record, the most likely thing that happened and is what I would put my money on as well. Beyond that they prefer to cultivate their own developers, which is why they "recently" (2022) bought a plot next to their Kyoto HQ for the purpose of building an entirely new studio - that building won't be finished before 2028, but will allow them to eventually double their own talent. It's tagged for R&D, but a lot of Nintendo's R&D also result in new franchises, and this will also free up space in the original HQ for development of established franchises. In other words, Nintendo is growing positively right now.
My favorite sports are the old school arcade ports that you can buy. Hamster comes to mind. They've been hoarding every neo Geo game and all those old arcade games made by SNK in a couple other companies to all these new systems and I say keep them coming
Shiver port Hogwart Legacy, Mortal Kombat 11 & Mortal Kombal 1 to Switch. MK11 flawlessly 60fps gameplay is so good & latest MK1 patch also is excellent. HL is big modern open world game and it's playable on Switch is so amazing ❤
I was initially baffled by the purchase after the ports of MK1 and HL to Switch but I was told HL was quite a miracle port to get running at all... MK1 was so bad at launch it was absurd... but there has come a recent patch that has made the game more or less in line with Mk11's port that they also did, which was generally regarded as decent.
MK1 was simply because they were given no time to actually port the game, WB wanted it out on switch same day as PS5 & PC but Shiver were trying to make a game made for those consoles fit into the Switch...that wasn't happening at that time frame. Now that they had time to work on it the game runs fine.
It seems everybody has forgotten about one major detail from last years 2023 Xbox games conference; which is when Phil spencer announced that he would be partnering up with Nintendo to bring activision and blizzard games to the switch; and more specifically, he mentioned call of duty. (Over watch is already a title, as well as a couple activision/blizzard games). Idk, i think this plays a huge role into Nintendo’s decision to buy this porting company. We all know how the old call of duty titles performed on Nintendo hardware… (not really good). This goes without saying that the switch 2 will be very powerful, I want to say competitive with the XSX and PS5, so porting/transferring games traditionally made for those consoles should bring in a lot of new customers, with an up to par quality of course given this action by Nintendo- and the deal Phil spencer made which acquired activision and blizzard in the first place (to make them more accessible, to make more money) will definitely play out in front of us on the activision/blizzard side of things for sure. In high quality!
They already did, MK1 was patched recently and works well. Shiver released it as it was because WB forced them to port a PS5 game to Switch in basically no time at all.
I'm pretty confident they bought it because they own shiver, the logo even has shark fins in it. Clearly Nintendo saw that and realized it should be ours.
Is Scribblenauts on Switch? I never got to enjoy that series when it originally came out. I would love to see some of DS and 3DS comeover since they closed the store
Pretty confident that Shiver will work to bring 3rd party games to the Switch 2, but obviously, being a 1st party studio, the ports will be much better than on the Switch 1.
Hypothetically, if it’s true the switch 2 will be far more powerful than the switch then then it’s most likely they bought Shiver to port/modify games on Switch 2 in order to let them run on switch 1. They could be the cross platform team + Port team
Don't believe the claims made on the Mortal Kombat 1 port. It was before the day 1 patch which made it run and look much better. It's still a switch port though.
I really cant blame them for MK1. WB gave them the near impossibe task of putting a highly visual PS5/XSX game onto hardware thats essentially just a suped up WiiU. Ive heard they did an incredible job with Hogwarts, so im excited to see what Nintendo has planned for them.
This is a very interesting purchase by Nintendo. Its bit the company i would have wanted but honestly theu have proven they are talented team do i am very excited for the future.
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watching this b-roll is like watching one of those "I can't beat this level!" mobile ads.
I was about to say the exact same thing
zack scott sucks at games
does anyone know what the game is called? I like the artstyle
@@seb_thoms Scribblenauts Showdown. The artsytle is that of the Scribblenauts franchise.
Yeah, I had to scroll down to just the comments after awhile, haha! It's agony!
I like this acquisition, because Nintendo tends to enforce consistency. This studio is infamously inconsistent.
Well I love how we can count on that good feel games are consistently trash
@Domenic1407 I wouldn't say that that's necessarily true: keep in mind that Good-Feel developed Kirby's Epic Yarn, Yoshi's Wooly World, and Wario Land: Shake It. They don't always hit the mark, but I think it's important to recognize the good projects that have come out of them. :)
I disagree, they've consistently been able to get games that the Switch should not be able to run at all to be brought to the system in a playable state.
Yeah, Mortal Kombat 1 looks hilariously bad, but it's functionally a PS5 game being ran on hardware that's more in line with the PS3 in terms of specs than the PS4.
@@1originalaccountname They should have redone assets, there’s nothing about the gameplay that the switch can’t easily do. It’s all in the graphics.
@@minecrafter3448 I'm not sure they had the time or access to a way to do that.
To anyone bringing up Alpha Dream
They didn’t need to buy the studio… They poached the employees instead
Which is not a human move but is a good corporate move… Nintendo is still a company after all
@@Chiavicagiving employees who are about to be jobless some jobs is pretty human
@@Chiavica They just needed the people, not the company (since it didn't come with any IP and they were going to have to take in the debt)
@@TheAkuman27so hiring the humans from a company and not taking the corporate entity is somehow the not human move?
Fun fact: Japanese game companies hate working with Nintendo on games because often times Nintendo will steal their best talent. It happened specifically the Sonic Generations team who ended up working on Mario Odyssey
These guys are actually located in my hometown. I used to drive past their offices many times without realizing they were a game studio. They really hit the jackpot here, because they basically have a permanent guarantee of financial stability now. The chance that Nintendo will ever shut them down is absolutely minuscule with the amount of surplus money they’re sitting on.
Nintendo loves buying things that actually help them, rather than just buying up IPs to hoard and never use. Nintendo has been struggling with hardware recently, so them buying these guys shows a desire to improve.
Before this acquisition apparently shiver was planning their own original ip
Which makes it a Nintendo ip now
What was ip gonna be
@@burgergud2804we dunno, it wasn't publicly named or anything, they just said they were making something new
Could easily be a big part of why they bought them. Must’ve impressed them
I respect this acquisition. Shiver doesn’t have any IP of their own, so it’s obvious Nintendo’s interested in the talent instead. I’ve heard Shiver’s ports of MK11 and Hogwarts were pretty good. Having a studio to court 3rd parties by helping them get their games on Nintendo systems is a unique idea and it’ll definitely help get more games on Nintendo hardware in the future.
Actually they do before this acquisition they had announced that they were working on an original ip
@@madnessarcade7447 working on isnt exactly having ip, lot things can get caned before then
@Yoshizuyuner even then, if it's interesting enough Nintendo might let them make it anyway, I doubt they'd say no to another exclusive for the Switch 2 if the ip interests them
I don’t know why but whenever Nintendo buys a studio It just opens up old wounds for AlphaDream
The absorbed the majority of the employees from Alpha dream… Stop the cap
They did it the smart way
It's because AlphaDream announced bankruptcy & Nintendo didn't bother buying them or salvaging their talent when it happened.
@@jarde1989im not saying they were bad for not buying them up. Maybe it would have been a net loss to save them but im just talking from how it sucks for the games they produced specifically the Mario and Luigi series
Nintendo hired AlphaDream's core staff after the company closed
@@TurtleCraftZ1 I know I’m just taking about how their IPs are dead with seemingly no plans to revive them
The acquisition of Shiver is literally outlined in their document on their twitter page on Nintendo Co Ltd... they were purchased to specialize in ports
The Skyward sword background music makes me so happy
I feel ashamed I didn't recognize it fast enough. I still freaking love Skyward Sword
Imo, Skyward Sword has the best OST in the series.
@@jmtheelitefan9616 that orchestrated ost is the best
It makes me feel so happy and content while watching the video :)
Maxwell Scribblenauts locked in for the next smash bros game, how exciting!
Since they are mostly a porting studio this makes perfect sense for Nintendo.
They can get more games into the next switch and get paid for the privilege.
And we gamers can finally get the older games without needing to pirate,............hmmm
As someone who only owns Nintendo systems, this is a big win!
Only reason why Nintendo bought Shiver is because the splatoon character won the character contest for best leader
Of note for NLG, that seems to be a case of not wanting history to repeat.
NLG, just like Rare, was going to be sold to another company either way. For Rare, Nintendo was not interested in buying out companies. This ended up with Rare instead going to Microsoft. Nintendo didn't foresee this possibility, and they lost one of their greatest allies.
NLG wasn't in a bad spot like Rare, but the investors (I believe) were just done with them. They were going to sell the company one way or another. Nintendo didn't want what happened with Rare to happen again because NLG is one of their best partners. So they went ahead and bit the bullet
Technically Nintendo did actually throw in an offer to buy Rare but it was literally too little and too late since there were now other players involved besides just Nintendo and Microsoft (I forget who tbh) who were bidding higher.
@@ListlessWitherActivision was also bidding for Rare at the time
Honestly, I would love to know what led the investors to feel that way. NLG's previous game (Luigi's Mansion 3) had sold 14 million copies. That's guaranteed to be utterly ludicrous profit on the budget the game had assuming they get a cut of each sale, even if we don't know what it was exactly.
@@lukeo5761 Investors don't actually care about the longterm strength of a company or their assets. They care about how much _growth_ the company can achieve. If a company has a crazy successful product launch but the product hits market saturation quickly and the next launch is another 5 years away, then they basically perceive the company as having "peaked," even if they can maintain steady sales of that product. Basically, it doesn't matter how good their revenue stream is - if the line isn't going _up,_ the investors see them as, at best, an asset that needs to be liquidated before it loses value.
@@lukeo5761 Maybe they didn't foresee much growth for them? 14 million copies is a lot, so much so that it's hard to beat that metric. The investors could get more money investing more into companies with a higher expected profit and potential growth.
Unlike *certain gaming companies* Nintendo’s acquisitions usually leave me going “holy cow that’s smart.” I was particularly happy with Next Level (I love them so much), but this one is also super smart of them! Also, on the Mortal Kombat 1 port, that was only bad because they rushed to be day and date with PS5/PC. They ported Mortal Kombat 11 to Switch and it worked really well and sold super well too, so I assume WB saw that and made them do a rush job for extra sales. :(
It's almost like acquiring studios is meant to improve your output, not just have someone else do your work for you. Surely big companies other than Nintendo understand this, right?
It also didn’t help that WB/Netherrealms was insistent they target 60 fps. If they had let them target 30 at launch and then patch up to 60 later it probably wouldn’t have looked so bad.
@@alexgrunde6682 you should not be asking for a 30 fps fighting game. it literally breaks the game on a fundamental level since attacks are tied to frame data and this version would literally have a whole different meta. the issue being mortal kombat either shouldnt be on the switch at all or make some parts from the ground up to perform better
@@alexgrunde6682pretty much what Dorf said. Fighting games NEED to be at 60fps. One of the reasons the PS Classic was so disappointing was some games like Tekken were the PAL version, which run at 50fps. It makes the game super jank and combos that work in one version won't work in another.
Parasocial feelings towards corpos aside, I definitely trust more in Nintendo acquiring studios for projects, certainly more than Microsoft with their lack of projects despite going gung-ho with acquisitions
The fact they bought a company that makes ports put together with the fact they've been going harder on emulation and we're expecting a new console, I wonder if the new Nintendo console will be focused on bringing old games to the forefront. They've already started going for it and if they make thier new consle dual screen somehow I feel like that would be a banger. Have a company make ports of the old while you focus on newer games. Release more games with half the effort. It seems like a no brainer.
Mkds port when 😯
I feel as if Nintendo prefers having a strong relationship with these companies rather than outright owning them. That way, they WANT to make games for Nintendo platforms. Instead of being obligated to.
Indeed, I know some wonder why not buy a studio that's already works well with you but it's important to remember that studio independence and culture is important. When companies get bought, both those things are at risk. Nintendo letting studios be independent for better or worse is a sign of a company you can have a strong relationship with.
nintendo only buys studios that they see potential with and have a long term future plan for them
Yep. That’s how you keep investors happy without losing your soul.
buying a mostly a port studio is smart for the long term as it means you can bring over 3rd party games to your console, have them even better optimized as they are working closer with Nintendo, while having a "low" power console.
This is the most sustainable model for future gaming especially since nintendo's games are not made to be super demanding so they don't need a bunch of power on the console to do what they want to do.
Nintendo dribbles us Paper Mario and everyone loses their mind. A remaster studio is a great specifically for Nintendo
ARLO! STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION!!
The moon is purple.
TE END FROM SONIC FRONTIERS REFERENCE????????!!!!!
No it’s porple
My dog said it's black and white idk what moon you're seeing!
@@StarboundRose poipull
@@HealyHQ*prupill
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damn Arlo you are getting DESTROYED by that CPU
Makes perfect sense actually: If Nintendo wants to keep their quality up and avoid the trend of shitty ports they'll have a dedicated team for it
I still wish nintendo would have bought rare studios back in the day.
this video is how i learned that scribblenauts showdown actually came out. i thought it was canceled!
They seem to be a studio that specializes in porting games from more powerful systems to the switch, so my theory is that they will be making switch 2 games cross-gen
Microsoft showed that just buying companies just because there is a chance to make a lot of money is a huge risk. Nintendo chooses to make their own studios better and bigger so that they have complete control over all projects. And if they buy a company, it is a company that they can trust completely. Nintendo knows that third party support on the Switch 2 will be huge, so Shiver will help with that
Hopefully this'll open up more Gamecube and Wii games for Switch!!
You are pumping out SO many videos. I’m glad you’re having fun with the new channel! Remember to KEEP having fun 😊 don’t over exert yourself pls
This is so cool! Excited to see what’ll come from this in terms of ports and stuff!
Theory: They bought them for their name. Same name as an important splatoon idol character. Coincidence? Possibly, but it'd be funny.
I've never even heard of Shiver Entertainment until Nintendo bought it.
Arlo also mentioned that Shiver was part of the Embracer Group, which has been laying off a ton of people recently. Nintendo may have saved them from being canned and even got it for cheap. With the power of the next-gen switch and the quality control of Nintendo, we shouldn’t have a Mortal Combat 1 situation (PS5 game quickly ported to the Xbox360 powered Switch)
"The moon is blue" is the perfect opening title.
Makes sense in hindsight. That way they secure a developer who will always do the duty of porting other games to their system.
I think this is cool! A port specialist for the next system, this seems like a really cool utility and an exciting prospect the future. Maybe they’ll try to be much more third-party friendly next generation!
shiver me timbers
Oohh good one. I was going to go with Wrecking Crew HD Ultimate.
I mean when nintendo bought monolith soft back in 2006 because they had potential to make so it make sense to buy other studio also monolith soft was struggling as well
And that was a huge win on Nintendo's part, Giving them the Xenoblade series and a studio with a lot of the experience with open world games that could help them with their own series like Zelda.
2006?
@@platinum-or3yyeah in 2006 or 2007 that when nintendo bought monolith soft from bandi namco
@@westfield474 Monolith also reportedly helped with Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion and Bowser's Fury. (I think)
Is Monolithsoft Nintendo's best studio buyout ever? They were slept on for a while but from XC2 onwards Monolith has been an uber important part of their company both IP-wise and in regards to pure manpower and making their biggest games play as well as they do...
This channel is an overdose of Arlo, and I love it.
Not to defend Embracer, but more for some clarification.
Embracer had a $2 Billion deal with Savvy Games Group which had already previously invested $1 Billion into Embracer. Embracer unfortunately took this as a opportunity to buy up a bunch of studios to secure themselves as one of the next big entertainment groups. At the last minute Savvy pulled out of the deal (as far as I know, the reason still isn't public) which caused Embracer to start selling / closing everything. I remember watching a video with Bellular talking about the whole situation and then seeing videos of the CEO just looking absolutely destroyed over the news and I don't doubt that part of it is knowing how many people are about to have their lives made worse from this.
I don't know the full scope of the entire deal between Savvy and Embracer, but most of all this could have been avoided if Embracer had waited for the deal to close before buying everything.
Apparently Iwata was good friends with the former head of this studio, Shiver obv has use in the porting department but id be surprised if that wasn't a big part of it.
It probably kept them on their radar, if nothing else.
so now theyre even more equipped to port the wind waker
I know some wonder why not buy a studio that's already works well with you but it's important to remember that studio independence and culture is important. When companies get bought, both those things are at risk. Nintendo letting studios be independent for better or worse is a sign of a company you can have a strong relationship with.
oh my gosh it's FOOTAGE FROM ZACKSCOTT :O
The fact that other than long load times Hogwarts Legacy runs perfectly fine on something as old as the Switch tells me they have talent.
I can't believe they bought the best member of Deep Cut.
They were thinking about how they can buy an idol 😂
Dang big man got bought? He didn't seem like the typa man to be sold
They bought Big Man?
i didn't know they sold big man
I'm really hoping that Nintendo shows what honest growth through these kinds of deals looks like. There's nothing to tell me it won't be, but I really hope in light of studio shuttering as of late that this can be a success story
これは非常に的を絞った、妥当な範囲の買収のように思えます。また、Switch 時代の他の買収 (SRD、Nintendo Pictures) とも一致しています。
Nonetheless I was really surprised by Nintendo purchasing an Embracer studio, but this acquisition makes a lot of sense. Embracer has been selling off many studios after their failed deal with the Saudi government, and Nintendo could use extra support to build up the Switch successor's library with third party ports. They don't do acquisitions that often, so this must be a big priority for them.
Now if only they could buy tango games, rest in peace tango you were taken too soon
The interesting thing about Shiver is that they ported Mortal Kombat 11 to the Switch which is widely seen to be one of those "impossible ports" as the game actually runs at 60FPS in combat and was very competently done. Also, both MK1 and Hogwarts Legacy on the Switch run significantly better NOW than they did at launch which is usually more a testament to a studio not being given enough time to make a port happen. The thing is, for the next several years Shiver will just continue to do exactly what they were already doing as the tweet indicated so assuming they are already contracted to port a few games over to Switch 2 the real benefit from Nintendo is that they can give Shiver even more tech support for optimization with them becoming first party and other than that they can just leave them alone and they'll continue to do what they do. Really, I only see Nintendo pouring additional funds into Shiver IF they feel like they need to scale up their operation so that they can handle multiple projects at once as they are quite small currently (the number I saw was something around 20 employees).
Shiver now being a 1st party studio could also mean that situations like what happened with MK1 is less likely to, since Nintendo probably wouldn't let 3rd party companies try to pull that kind of opressive timetable with one of their own personal studios.
My prediction for the first Switch 2 rerelease by Shiver is the Golden Sun duology (or maybe even trilogy) being remastered
One thing I can already see happening is maybe Nintendo offers Shivers services to Microsoft for Call of Duty ports, though I suspect MS would likely just have a studio like Beenox do it. They already have Unreal Engine familiarity thanks to the Mortal Kombat and Hogwarts ports, so they could be Nintendo’s big go to to tell third parties “got an Unreal project? We’ve got a studio right here to help ya out!”
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Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…
I wonder if Nintendo plans to have them handle next-gen patches for current-gen Switch games
Maybe it’ll be my sweet sweet kid Icarus uprising
Apparently shiver is working on their own ip before this happened so now Nintendo gets a new first party game in their line up I wonder what kind of game it is
I'm really hoping Nintendo has designed the next console in such a way that allows for DS game ports/remasters. They'd make so much money oh my god.
Maybe this means that we’ll get some actual quality assurance for 3rd party ports.
It's random at first but it makes sense when you think about it. Like you said it seems they are getting ready on all fronts for the next system. Apparently Shiver will continue to be able to work externally through commissions which is great. Hoping for a fruitful relationship between the two
My guess for their first 1st party port would be Zelda related
Nintendo generally only acquire studios who have shown interest in becoming a part of their brand, thus avoiding the controversial purchases that is otherwise frequent in the market. Therefore your guess about there possibly having been talks behind the scenes is, based on track record, the most likely thing that happened and is what I would put my money on as well.
Beyond that they prefer to cultivate their own developers, which is why they "recently" (2022) bought a plot next to their Kyoto HQ for the purpose of building an entirely new studio - that building won't be finished before 2028, but will allow them to eventually double their own talent. It's tagged for R&D, but a lot of Nintendo's R&D also result in new franchises, and this will also free up space in the original HQ for development of established franchises. In other words, Nintendo is growing positively right now.
@topicarlo what is this game in the background?
My favorite sports are the old school arcade ports that you can buy. Hamster comes to mind. They've been hoarding every neo Geo game and all those old arcade games made by SNK in a couple other companies to all these new systems and I say keep them coming
Shiver port Hogwart Legacy, Mortal Kombat 11 & Mortal Kombal 1 to Switch. MK11 flawlessly 60fps gameplay is so good & latest MK1 patch also is excellent. HL is big modern open world game and it's playable on Switch is so amazing ❤
I was initially baffled by the purchase after the ports of MK1 and HL to Switch but I was told HL was quite a miracle port to get running at all... MK1 was so bad at launch it was absurd... but there has come a recent patch that has made the game more or less in line with Mk11's port that they also did, which was generally regarded as decent.
MK1 was simply because they were given no time to actually port the game, WB wanted it out on switch same day as PS5 & PC but Shiver were trying to make a game made for those consoles fit into the Switch...that wasn't happening at that time frame. Now that they had time to work on it the game runs fine.
rip the person playing, that CPU is smoking them
I googled them, they made some really impressive ports so I guess that’s why.
I bet twitter's going to have a field day with this one
WHAT AN EXCITING TIME
I can't wait for the _Wii Music_ 'wiimastered' edition.
It seems everybody has forgotten about one major detail from last years 2023 Xbox games conference; which is when Phil spencer announced that he would be partnering up with Nintendo to bring activision and blizzard games to the switch; and more specifically, he mentioned call of duty. (Over watch is already a title, as well as a couple activision/blizzard games). Idk, i think this plays a huge role into Nintendo’s decision to buy this porting company. We all know how the old call of duty titles performed on Nintendo hardware… (not really good). This goes without saying that the switch 2 will be very powerful, I want to say competitive with the XSX and PS5, so porting/transferring games traditionally made for those consoles should bring in a lot of new customers, with an up to par quality of course given this action by Nintendo- and the deal Phil spencer made which acquired activision and blizzard in the first place (to make them more accessible, to make more money) will definitely play out in front of us on the activision/blizzard side of things for sure. In high quality!
If we are lucky they’ll fix the ports they’ve made, especially MK1. Great Stuff as always.
They already did, MK1 was patched recently and works well. Shiver released it as it was because WB forced them to port a PS5 game to Switch in basically no time at all.
I feel like Shiver could make a WarioWare game. Imagine Smooth Moves or WarioWare Gold remastered on Switch 2.
Ports galore on the New Nintendo Switch
I'm pretty confident they bought it because they own shiver, the logo even has shark fins in it. Clearly Nintendo saw that and realized it should be ours.
Arlo where is the sequel to Bug Interview
Very much so!
I wonder if they're planning on "remastering" (think like ps4 pro enabled games) some switch games to the next switch with the help of shiver studios
Is Scribblenauts on Switch? I never got to enjoy that series when it originally came out. I would love to see some of DS and 3DS comeover since they closed the store
Yes serveral scribblenauts are on switch
Pretty confident that Shiver will work to bring 3rd party games to the Switch 2, but obviously, being a 1st party studio, the ports will be much better than on the Switch 1.
They haven't bought it. They announce their intention of buying it and are in the process of such, but the ink hasn't dried yet.
the mortal kombat 1 port *was* actually pretty decent, after it got patched. the launch version was pretty bad though
Something about this makes me wonder if this could be in any way related to Nintendo's history with third-party emulations of their older games
Arlo content every stinking day I love it
Maybe they'll be assigned specifically to Microsoft ports since there will be a steady stream of those. So, my guess will be Killer Instinct.
MK was fixed it’s good now
Yeah most people ignore this but it's been patched and aside from some long loading times the gameplay experience is solid now.
Hypothetically, if it’s true the switch 2 will be far more powerful than the switch then then it’s most likely they bought Shiver to port/modify games on Switch 2 in order to let them run on switch 1. They could be the cross platform team + Port team
Don't believe the claims made on the Mortal Kombat 1 port. It was before the day 1 patch which made it run and look much better. It's still a switch port though.
6:11 They should look into buying Big Red Button as well then
I really cant blame them for MK1. WB gave them the near impossibe task of putting a highly visual PS5/XSX game onto hardware thats essentially just a suped up WiiU. Ive heard they did an incredible job with Hogwarts, so im excited to see what Nintendo has planned for them.
Nintendo might be interested in how they get next gen software running on last gen hardware
We need a Ever Oasis port!
They may begin working on updates for Switch 1 titles to run better on Switch 2
Inhousing a strong technical partner is a good idea, i think. It's not really a games studio so much as a nintendo port supporting house
Pretty smart I guess if they wanted they can improve things just like they did with retro studios? it's a high possibility.
Mortal Kombat 1 was the game that wasn't great at launch. It was quickly patched though, it's now very good.
my dream is an arms port
They could be heading up switch to switch 2 emulation, there’s not a hugh leap between ports and emulation
This is a very interesting purchase by Nintendo. Its bit the company i would have wanted but honestly theu have proven they are talented team do i am very excited for the future.