Nintendo has simply introduced their plans to amass Dynamo Photos, a Japanese firm which focuses on visible content material manufacturing. The acquisition is anticipated to shut on October 3, 2022, and upon closing Nintendo expects to vary its title to “Nintendo Image Co., Ltd” in an effort to “concentrate on improvement of visible content material using Nintendo IP”.
Here’s a assertion from Nintendo concerning the acquisition:
Dynamo Photos is an organization that plans and produces visible content material.
Nintendo has determined to amass 100% of the excellent shares (excluding treasury shares) of Dynamo Photos and make it a completely owned subsidiary to strengthen the planning and manufacturing construction of visible content material within the Nintendo group.
The Acquisition is anticipated to shut on October 3, 2022, pending satisfaction of all related phrases and customary closing circumstances.
Upon closing of the Acquisition, the corporate title Dynamo Photos is anticipated to be modified to “Nintendo Photos Co., Ltd.” to concentrate on improvement of visible content material using Nintendo IP.
Dynamo Photos largely focuses on CG content material manufacturing, though additionally they work with movement seize recording and VR content material improvement. They’ve executed work for films, TV and online game animation, and have labored with Nintendo prior to now. Notably, they helped produce Metroid Different M, and in addition helped produce the animated Pikmin Brief Films from a number of years in the past. It’s not but identified precisely what kind of visible content material they’ll be producing for Nintendo, because it might vary from commercials to full-length films, and even the manufacturing of extra brief movies like these older Pikmin ones. Regardless, because the acquisition is deliberate to shut in October, we’ll doubtless have to attend till then to begin seeing any actions on that entrance.
Nintendo just isn’t usually massive on acquisitions, as they have a tendency to amass different firms pretty hardly ever, and often concentrate on smaller firms that they have already got ties to. Only a few months in the past, Nintendo acquired SRD Co., Ltd, one other smaller improvement firm that they’d labored with extensively over a few years. It’s attention-grabbing to see these acquisitions be introduced in comparatively fast succession, probably indicating a push from Nintendo in an effort to consolidate their sources. Whereas it’s doubtless fruitless to take a position on who else Nintendo might purchase, we’ll hold you knowledgeable of any future acquisitions they might determine on.
