Nintendo announced on Thursday (24) that it has agreed to acquire the Japanese company SRD. The Big N will buy 100% of the shares from its development partners for almost 40 years.
Founded in 1979, Systems Research and Development has worked with Nintendo since 1983. The partnership started with SRD helping with the programming of Famicom/NES games such as Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.
Since then, the company has been present in the development of more than 90 titles of the main franchises of the Japanese giant on all its consoles. His most recent work was on Game Builder Garage (Switch). Although it had no capital relationship with Nintendo, SRD has been working since the 1980s within Big N’s Kyoto offices.
“SRD is a development company that has been closely involved for nearly four decades in the development of Nintendo video game software.
Completion of the Acquisition (…) will serve to strengthen SRD’s management foundation and ensure the availability of software development resources for Nintendo, as well as facilitate an early improvement in software development efficiency.”
The purchase may close on April 1, 2022. From that date, the company will become a subsidiary of Nintendo, as will studios such as Retro Studios, Monolith Soft, and Next Level Games, the latter acquired in 2021.
