Monolith Soft
| Monolith Soft | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Subsidiary of Nintendo |
| founding | October 1, 1999 |
| Seat | Tokyo , Japan |
| management | Hirohide Sugiura |
| Number of employees | 248 (2020) |
| Website | [2] |
Monolith Soft is a Video Games - developer based in Meguro , Tokyo . The company was founded in October 1999 by Hirohide Sugiura and Tetsuya Takahashi , who formerly worked for Square . Nintendo has held an 80 percent stake in the company since May 1, 2007; previously it was majority owned by Namco Bandai Games , which now hold 16% of the shares. This makes it one of Nintendo's 16 first-party development studios. Nintendo later bought the remaining shares. The remainder of the studio shares are Sugiura, Takahashi and Yasuyuki Honne . For a few years now, Monolith Soft has had a second studio in Kyoto with around 30 employees. So far, the Kyoto studio has mainly contributed to the graphics of Nintendo EAD games .
Ludography
- in-studio projects
- Baten Kaitos: The Wings of Eternity and the Lost Ocean ( GameCube , 2005)
- Baten Kaitos Origins (GameCube, 2006)
- Namco X Capcom ( PlayStation 2 , 2005)
- Xenosaga Episode I: The Will to Power (PlayStation 2, 2002)
- Xenosaga Episode II: Beyond Good and Evil (PlayStation 2, 2004)
- Xenosaga Episode III: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (PlayStation 2, 2006)
- Xenosaga I & II ( Nintendo DS , 2006)
- Soma Bringer (Nintendo DS, 2008)
- Disaster: Day of Crisis ( Wii , 2008)
- Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii, 2010)
- Project X Zone (3DS, 2012)
- Xenoblade Chronicles X ( Wii U , 2015)
- Project X Zone 2 (3DS, 2016)
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch, 2017)
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Switch, 2020)
- Cooperations with Nintendo EAD
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii, 2011)
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS, 2012)
- Pikmin 3 (Wii U, 2013)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS, 2013)
- Splatoon (Wii U, 2015)
Cooperations with Nintendo EPD
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch / Wii U, 2017)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch, 2020)
Web links
- Monolith Soft - Official Homepage (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://nintendo-online.de/wiiu/news/12342/monolith-soft-half-bei-pikmin-3-mit
- ↑ http://nintendo-online.de/3ds/news/15179/monolith-soft-war-an-zelda-a-link-between-worlds-beteiligt
