Monolith Smooth has been a first-party Nintendo studio for near 20 years at this level, and by 2011, the corporate’s possession of Monolith had expanded to 96 % of its shares. However although Nintendo has had a majority possession of the Xenoblade Chronicles studio, a small share of its shares (4 %, to be exact) have remained within the possession of its co-founders, Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi, and Yasuyuki Honne.
That, nonetheless, now not appears to be the case. Noticed by Automaton Media, an replace to Monolith Smooth’s web site now confirms that one hundred pc of the studio’s shares at the moment are owned by Nintendo. In fact, functionally, this gained’t make a lot distinction, since Nintendo already had full management over the studio anyway, although on paper, Monolith Smooth is now completely in Nintendo’s possession.
The studio’s subsequent launch is Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version, which is due out for the Nintendo Change in March. What Monolith Smooth’s subsequent massive recreation can be is presently unknown, although with Nintendo’s next-gen console presumably launching in 2025, one would hope that the studio’s subsequent title can be unveiled for it within the not-too-distant future.
