It’s acquisition season. But I think Nintendo’s approach is getting a bit lost in the shuffle. They haven’t acquired any new studios in a couple years and, even when they do, it’s typically a studio that many already assumed was 1st party because of such a close relationship. Well, rather than acquiring studios in the last year, Nintendo took a different approach and just recently announced a 900+ million expansion to their own internal software development efforts (article with details below). Compared to 70 billion, that might not seem like much, but that could actually result in multiple AAA exclusives for Nintendo consoles in just the next few years. Nintendo tends to invest wisely, and that 900 million could actually have a far impact on Nintendo’s future than the 4 billion financial commitment Sony just announced, for example. Just an interesting nugget to add to the ‘acquisition’ and ‘expanding 1st party exclusives’ conversations that, I think, should good cited more often: [https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-says-its-using-switchs-success-to-fund-a-900m-development-expansion/](https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-says-its-using-switchs-success-to-fund-a-900m-development-expansion/)
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