5:40 Nintendo didn’t save Alpha Dream… but they did save most of the employees Nintendo hired the vast majority of employees that got laid off during the Alpha Dream closure
its more practical to hire employees than buying a studio with financial problem.. by owning a studio, you also inherit all the debt and its not worth it
I didn't even realise he still lived. Thought he'd died from a heart attack. He is all volume and click bait to get rent paid. And you shmos keep coming.
I think they chose Shiver because Embracer was probably selling them for cheap. Panic Button and Saber Interactive would certainly be much more expensive, probably not looking to be bought, and they are working with Nintendo anyway. They probably went on to buy Shiver because otherwise they would've been sold to another company and maybe stopped working with Nintendo.
The difference between Panic Button and Shiver has to be the price. Panic Button is a prolific port house with the new Dooms and Witcher 3 to Switch. Shiver divesting from the sinking ship that is Embracer probably sold for pennies on the dollar compared to Panic.
I think you answered your own question in the video. This company worked on games that wouldn’t necessarily come to a Nintendo platform or has been on a Nintendo platform for almost 20 years. And it seems like the value for the cost was the biggest thing for Nintendo since Embracer is losing money, they probably practically gave the company away to Nintendo.
I personally think that the only truly big purchase that Nintendo will ever make is Bandai Namco and that's ONLY if they are at threat of being bought out by another company like say Capcom or Sony. This is due to the fact that they do help develop a lot of Nintendo's stuff nowadays with Smash being an obvious example. Otherwise, I think that they will purchase more Camelot/Good Feel/Next Level Games type companies.
I think it would be Sega. Once Nintendo realizes that they could make more money owning Sonic they'd probably go for it. Nintendo just hasn't caught up to that trend.
The reason that they selected Shiver not other studios is that they are only to port the current gen graphic games. Nintendo is probably going to offer a lot of ported game from the current generation when launching Switch 2, especially to make up the gap that there wouldn’t be any main series Zelda game at Switch 2's launch!
So this is a surprise. I mean Nintendo allow alpha dream to close down and didn’t buy rare entertainment when they could. Yet the company ended up doing this ?!?
I'm pretty sure Nintendo bought Shiver because the price was too good to pass up and they can fulfill a need for the company with likely minimal need for oversight. The exciting thing will be that other companies will pay Shiver to port their games to Switch 2 which they will likely be intimately familiar with now that they're owned by Nintendo.
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I would imagine Shiver is the cheaper "off brand" of Panic Button. Does the same job pretty well, waaay cheaper because Panic Button has wide recognition and is more expensive. Or maybe Panic Button isn't for sale.
Panic button is one of the porting studio recognized and work closely by Nintendo to work on Switch prototype to test the devkits in early day around 2012.. Thats why they did pretty good job when porting game like Rocket League, Doom, and some other notable port on Switch, and become in demand porting studio.. they financially stable and not need to be save by Nintendo meanwhile if Shiver get shutdown, Nintendo may loose one of prolific porting studio on their system.
@@zultriova89 Huh, had no idea they were so closely involved with Nintendo. After reading that, it's no wonder they were so effective with "impossible" ports.
7:36 because nintendo actually takes care of their studios and employees so we know they’ll be in good hands also it’s a small studio it’s not like Nintendo is buying sega or something
I'm sure the employees at Shiver are feeling good. Nintendo doesn't buy companies just to lay off everyone later and take the name. Nintendo really needs to sell the Switch 2 having to compete with the handheld gaming PC market. Having more exclusives and/or timed exclusives that most gamers want to play is the key to success. At the end of the day, its the games but with Nintendo, the hardware is just as important.
"Why didnt they buy Panic Button?" Probably because either Panic Button is not for sale right now, or because it was not as good a deal economically as buying Shiver.
He wouldn't care. Now if Nintendo got Sega, Square Enix, Konami, Capcom, Bandai Namco, SNK or Koei Tecmo, then it'll make him nervous because Nintendo would be taking away a Japanese publisher from Microsoft.
Great take on this. Love the let’s keep some of that same energy vibe line 😂 Though to be real Nintendo is not known for acquiring studios and shutting them down, they usually make smaller acquisitions that maximize profits. Alpha dream wasn’t saved, but the employees were. That way they don’t own any debt of the studio.
It seems everybody has forgotten about one major detail from last years 2023 Xbox games conference; which is when Phil spencer announced that he would be partnering up with Nintendo to bring activision and blizzard games to the switch; and more specifically, he mentioned call of duty. (Over watch is already a title, as well as a couple activision/blizzard games). Idk, i think this plays a huge role into Nintendo’s decision to buy this porting company. We all know how the old call of duty titles performed on Nintendo hardware… (not really good). This goes without saying that the switch 2 will be very powerful, I want to say competitive with the XSX and PS5, so porting/transferring games traditionally made for those consoles should bring in a lot of new customers, and the deal Phil spencer made which acquired activision and blizzard in the first place (to make them more accessible, to make more money) will definitely play out in front of us on the activision/blizzard side of things for sure.
I heard the name Shiver, sounds very interesting as I'd always say. But it's also familiar with the name of the studio. I'm gonna have to learn more about Shiver. Like I really want to. Shivers is in Miami, Florida like you said. And I also live from Florida too.
It's like you said Nintendo bought Shiver for such a ridiculously cheap price that I understand why they didn't go for the panic button. Nintendo has probably realized how big the third party support on the Switch 2 will be, they are preparing themselves
Recent actions by Sony and Microsoft make it seem that first party exclusivity is a dying concept. Nintendo buying a multi-platform developer may further prove that. I'm not saying there will be Mario or Zelda games on Playstation or Xbox but original IPs that are not so tied to the Nintendo brand.
Acquisition requires two (or more parties) to agree on terms and price. You can’t just walk in and buy a company because you want to. Microsoft wanted to buy Nintendo and they laughed at them at any price. So why not company X or company Y? Because they couldn’t agree…
Nintendo and Sony making smart, selective acquisitions and prospering. Meanwhile Phil blows $100 Billion of Daddy’s money over the course of a few years and has nothing to show for it…
Iron Galaxy is legit, no doubt. But my vote would be Saber Interactive, Witcher 3 was a more impossible port than Skyrim and all 3 Crysis games was harder to do than Doom Eternal.
The graphics are better on the ps5 but the vibe & oled of the nintendo switch for some reason its way more enjoyable sounds better & more real in my opinion.
I just think embracer was selling them off for cheap because if I was Nintnedo I'd buy Panic button instead. They brought Doom 2016 to switch and that was one of the reasons I got the system.
Well, given that Embracer Group is selling off their developers because they’re in financial debt, I’m not surprised, but them selling off one of their developers to Nintendo? That surprised me a lot, now Nintendo has three North American developers that they bought, the previous two are Retro Studios in Texas, and their Canadian golden boys Next Level Games, both of which are thankfully still around.
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I kind of wish Nintendo would acquire the rights to Konami’s characters and work out a licensing deal so that they can use them (and potentially select Nintendo character) in their gambling machines.
"why didn't they buy up panic button?" Maybe panic button didn't want to be bought out?.... I mean we all see what happened with Microsoft, maybe some studio owners aren't willing to put their teams in that position just for one time short term gain.
Wish Nintendo bought and save Tango Gameworks so at least they could have saved Hi-Fi Rush. I feel the studio would have been a perfect home for Nintendo instead of being a sacrificial lamb for greedy executives in Microsoft, what a waste of talent and potential.
Shiver is a bunch of ex-EA guys. Gary Bowser is an ex-EA guy. They specialized in bringing games to Switch and Embracer was likely closing the studio. Seems like a no brainer buy. Especially as it seems Nintendo spend $10 + whatever debt they’ve been saddled with.
What do YOU think of this acquisition? Lemme know!
Seems to be just about right. They may be working on Super Mario Odyssey port for Switch 2
@@UnrequitedLove23I certainly hope so🙏
Where was this "Hey! Buying other companies is a good idea, actually." Nintendo when Rare, Skip, and Alpha Dream needed Nintendo to buy them?
I just want a new Donkey Kong Country game
Nintendo should buy the rights to Mega Man and Banjo-Kazooie.
It must be nice to know as a small studio you got bought out by Nintendo of all companies. It must be a blessing.
@@lednails exactly
5:40
Nintendo didn’t save Alpha Dream… but they did save most of the employees
Nintendo hired the vast majority of employees that got laid off during the Alpha Dream closure
its more practical to hire employees than buying a studio with financial problem.. by owning a studio, you also inherit all the debt and its not worth it
Now that the Knicks are out, RGT is cranking out content.
Lol
It’s not because he cares, he just wants a payday
I didn't even realise he still lived. Thought he'd died from a heart attack.
He is all volume and click bait to get rent paid. And you shmos keep coming.
Nintendo should have acquired Panic Button
Let's be honest, as an independent studio, they're doing just fine, and they don't need the acquisition.
they should buy good feel they just made really cool goemon like game
I doubt Nintendo paid very much
They bought Shiver because they had worked with them in the past and Embracer group was offering a fair to cheap price for them.
I think they chose Shiver because Embracer was probably selling them for cheap. Panic Button and Saber Interactive would certainly be much more expensive, probably not looking to be bought, and they are working with Nintendo anyway. They probably went on to buy Shiver because otherwise they would've been sold to another company and maybe stopped working with Nintendo.
The difference between Panic Button and Shiver has to be the price. Panic Button is a prolific port house with the new Dooms and Witcher 3 to Switch. Shiver divesting from the sinking ship that is Embracer probably sold for pennies on the dollar compared to Panic.
I'm all in on switch 2 physical collecting. Don't tell my wife
Nintendo!? Buying a studio!? They took decades to acquire a studio that literally had their office in Nintendo's very own building... That's a shock
They acquired Next Level back in 2021
I read the headline about Nintendo acquiring Shiver, and then I began to shiver as I never expected such a bold move by Nintendo.
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Here’s to a good third party scene on Nintendo Switch 2!
Nintendo should hire former Tango Game Studios employees.
Totally agree. Imagine ex Tango devs working on a new rhythm heaven...
@@louiepikmin3184 That would be so dope not gonna lie!
It’s interesting that’s the first game to go multi platform and they immediately close the company 🤔
I think you answered your own question in the video. This company worked on games that wouldn’t necessarily come to a Nintendo platform or has been on a Nintendo platform for almost 20 years. And it seems like the value for the cost was the biggest thing for Nintendo since Embracer is losing money, they probably practically gave the company away to Nintendo.
They will probably be working to remaster/remake older Nintendo titles that are stuck on old systems.
You just wanted to get out in front of Spawn wave on this.
I personally think that the only truly big purchase that Nintendo will ever make is Bandai Namco and that's ONLY if they are at threat of being bought out by another company like say Capcom or Sony. This is due to the fact that they do help develop a lot of Nintendo's stuff nowadays with Smash being an obvious example. Otherwise, I think that they will purchase more Camelot/Good Feel/Next Level Games type companies.
I think it would be Sega. Once Nintendo realizes that they could make more money owning Sonic they'd probably go for it. Nintendo just hasn't caught up to that trend.
@@GeneralGorillaSonicOC As long as that means Dr. Eggman gets to be in Smash, I'm all for it.
Uh oh, he's back at it with more Nintendo news.
Maybe someone should stop him?
Is he a Nintendo UA-camr?
@@JObergfell he most certainly is. But aside from that, did you guy's know that revolution is his name😁
The CIA/FBI will stop him.
@@JObergfell is not a Nintendo UA-camr
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The reason that they selected Shiver not other studios is that they are only to port the current gen graphic games. Nintendo is probably going to offer a lot of ported game from the current generation when launching Switch 2, especially to make up the gap that there wouldn’t be any main series Zelda game at Switch 2's launch!
So this is a surprise. I mean Nintendo allow alpha dream to close down and didn’t buy rare entertainment when they could. Yet the company ended up doing this ?!?
Nintendo hired the devs instead of saving the Alpha Dream Company.
Most of the staff went to work at Monolith Soft and Nintendo's own EAD.
Shiver is going to make PC ports of all Nintendo first party games😂
I'm pretty sure Nintendo bought Shiver because the price was too good to pass up and they can fulfill a need for the company with likely minimal need for oversight. The exciting thing will be that other companies will pay Shiver to port their games to Switch 2 which they will likely be intimately familiar with now that they're owned by Nintendo.
I’m sure they bought shiver for a lower price than they would have paid for panic button. And panic button is probably not for sale
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Excellent. They can get to work on porting all those square enix titles that were exclusive to the PS 5And PS 4 to the switch now.
I was joking.
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The buyout for shiver in this case is a good thing cuz shiver was probably getting shutdown majority of other companies were doing fine
I would imagine Shiver is the cheaper "off brand" of Panic Button. Does the same job pretty well, waaay cheaper because Panic Button has wide recognition and is more expensive. Or maybe Panic Button isn't for sale.
Panic button is one of the porting studio recognized and work closely by Nintendo to work on Switch prototype to test the devkits in early day around 2012.. Thats why they did pretty good job when porting game like Rocket League, Doom, and some other notable port on Switch, and become in demand porting studio.. they financially stable and not need to be save by Nintendo meanwhile if Shiver get shutdown, Nintendo may loose one of prolific porting studio on their system.
@@zultriova89 Huh, had no idea they were so closely involved with Nintendo. After reading that, it's no wonder they were so effective with "impossible" ports.
Hopefully porting PS4 era titles to run at that quality level on the new switch
To "why not panic button?", my guess would be that panic button aren't looking to be brought.
They need to do a mortal kombat one Deluxe edition for the switch 2
7:36 because nintendo actually takes care of their studios and employees so we know they’ll be in good hands also it’s a small studio it’s not like Nintendo is buying sega or something
So good RGT released it at night.
I'm sure the employees at Shiver are feeling good. Nintendo doesn't buy companies just to lay off everyone later and take the name. Nintendo really needs to sell the Switch 2 having to compete with the handheld gaming PC market. Having more exclusives and/or timed exclusives that most gamers want to play is the key to success. At the end of the day, its the games but with Nintendo, the hardware is just as important.
Their first assignment Kingdom Hearts native ports (none cloud version)👏👏
We're definitely getting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Plus at $70 as a launch title for the Switch 2
"Why didnt they buy Panic Button?"
Probably because either Panic Button is not for sale right now, or because it was not as good a deal economically as buying Shiver.
This is honestly the first I’ve heard of shiver
i bet this acquisition will send "Shivers" up Phil Spensor's spine... lol
I refuse to see what you did there!
He's gonna buy Nintendo now, great
Lol
He wouldn't care. Now if Nintendo got Sega, Square Enix, Konami, Capcom, Bandai Namco, SNK or Koei Tecmo, then it'll make him nervous because Nintendo would be taking away a Japanese publisher from Microsoft.
@@jimcarrey2866 No. He'd be stopped by regulators before even thinking about.
Appreciate you my guy
Oh well. There goes my hope for a broad genre of games for switch 2
Great take on this. Love the let’s keep some of that same energy vibe line 😂
Though to be real Nintendo is not known for acquiring studios and shutting them down, they usually make smaller acquisitions that maximize profits. Alpha dream wasn’t saved, but the employees were. That way they don’t own any debt of the studio.
It seems everybody has forgotten about one major detail from last years 2023 Xbox games conference; which is when Phil spencer announced that he would be partnering up with Nintendo to bring activision and blizzard games to the switch; and more specifically, he mentioned call of duty. (Over watch is already a title, as well as a couple activision/blizzard games). Idk, i think this plays a huge role into Nintendo’s decision to buy this porting company. We all know how the old call of duty titles performed on Nintendo hardware… (not really good). This goes without saying that the switch 2 will be very powerful, I want to say competitive with the XSX and PS5, so porting/transferring games traditionally made for those consoles should bring in a lot of new customers, and the deal Phil spencer made which acquired activision and blizzard in the first place (to make them more accessible, to make more money) will definitely play out in front of us on the activision/blizzard side of things for sure.
This new give me shivers
RGT working hard to beat Spawnwave
Spawnwave is always late on everything anyways
i think MeTimber Productions might have Shiver on the close...LOL. great show yo, i do hope though that the Big N is ready to join the rest of them!!
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I heard the name Shiver, sounds very interesting as I'd always say. But it's also familiar with the name of the studio. I'm gonna have to learn more about Shiver. Like I really want to.
Shivers is in Miami, Florida like you said. And I also live from Florida too.
Maybe Panic Button wasn’t selling. They do quite well from what I hear.
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It's like you said Nintendo bought Shiver for such a ridiculously cheap price that I understand why they didn't go for the panic button. Nintendo has probably realized how big the third party support on the Switch 2 will be, they are preparing themselves
He didn’t say «I’m not s Nintendo UA-camr» guys… he is giving in 😆
Recent actions by Sony and Microsoft make it seem that first party exclusivity is a dying concept. Nintendo buying a multi-platform developer may further prove that. I'm not saying there will be Mario or Zelda games on Playstation or Xbox but original IPs that are not so tied to the Nintendo brand.
Out of left field here, but what if Nintendo uses them to port a lot of their older games into the Switch architecture?
Shiver Entertainment also ported MK11 to Switch, which was better received than MK1's port
Shiver may have been actively seeking a buyer so that's why Nintendo went for the acquisition.
I wish switch 2 was here
can I play the games on the mig switch?
go ahead.. no one stopping you
Acquisition requires two (or more parties) to agree on terms and price. You can’t just walk in and buy a company because you want to. Microsoft wanted to buy Nintendo and they laughed at them at any price.
So why not company X or company Y?
Because they couldn’t agree…
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Sorry about your Knicks....😢
Switch two is probably going to be backwards compatible.
Nintendo and Sony making smart, selective acquisitions and prospering. Meanwhile Phil blows $100 Billion of Daddy’s money over the course of a few years and has nothing to show for it…
Wish it was iron galaxy since they are the best big game switch porters
Iron Galaxy is legit, no doubt. But my vote would be Saber Interactive, Witcher 3 was a more impossible port than Skyrim and all 3 Crysis games was harder to do than Doom Eternal.
The graphics are better on the ps5 but the vibe & oled of the nintendo switch for some reason its way more enjoyable sounds better & more real in my opinion.
I just think embracer was selling them off for cheap because if I was Nintnedo I'd buy Panic button instead. They brought Doom 2016 to switch and that was one of the reasons I got the system.
So basically Nintendo has its own Aspyr?
That might not neccessarily be a good thing lol.
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He jumped out the bathtub to bring us this news
Well, given that Embracer Group is selling off their developers because they’re in financial debt, I’m not surprised, but them selling off one of their developers to Nintendo? That surprised me a lot, now Nintendo has three North American developers that they bought, the previous two are Retro Studios in Texas, and their Canadian golden boys Next Level Games, both of which are thankfully still around.
Nintendo's new president is more on the business side of things. It will be interesting to see what happens. I hope for good things
At least they wont be another "Bought and shut down Studio!"...
They probably going do an offering and then reverse split it.
Please Port second sight embracer group owns that game
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Take care lol
Zelda is getting ported to PS5!
"tutelage"
I kind of wish Nintendo would acquire the rights to Konami’s characters and work out a licensing deal so that they can use them (and potentially select Nintendo character) in their gambling machines.
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Incidentally, Embracer is in the process of splitting into 3 companies.
what about silver, they make miracle ports
Why not Zoidberg?
I do think a 30 person studio like shiver is a bit different from say Activision...
NFL i want on the switch
i always like how Nintendo did the majority investment instead of buying
Nintendo will be massive!
"why didn't they buy up panic button?"
Maybe panic button didn't want to be bought out?.... I mean we all see what happened with Microsoft, maybe some studio owners aren't willing to put their teams in that position just for one time short term gain.
Wish Nintendo bought and save Tango Gameworks so at least they could have saved Hi-Fi Rush. I feel the studio would have been a perfect home for Nintendo instead of being a sacrificial lamb for greedy executives in Microsoft, what a waste of talent and potential.
They could still pick up ex tango devs. They'd fit right in at Nintendo, imagine them working on a new rhythm heaven
Speculation, waiting for the facts and results.
Is panic button for sale? If not maybe they weren’t interested in selling to Nintendo if they did contact them about it.
Panic button would be a better choice
Shiver is a bunch of ex-EA guys. Gary Bowser is an ex-EA guy. They specialized in bringing games to Switch and Embracer was likely closing the studio.
Seems like a no brainer buy. Especially as it seems Nintendo spend $10 + whatever debt they’ve been saddled with.
Shiver me timbers
Scissor me timbers
Buy panic button
Nintendo playing the game? I really wanna see what they do
SpawnWave waited to post quality content over speedy content???
>NEW SWITCH GAMES!
>from a port studio
Uh oh...
Damn! Nintendo buying Shiver Entertainment?!!!!