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Monolith Soft

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Monolith Soft
Monolith Soft logo.gif
Founded: 1999
Founder: N/A
President: N/A
Parent / owner: Nintendo
Divisions / subsidiaries: N/A
Website:
www.monolithsoft.co.jp

Monolith Soft, Inc. is a game developer based in Tokyo, Japan, mostly known for developing RPGs such as the Xeno series, among others. The studio was founded by Tetsuya Takahashi, a former Square employee.

History

After the release of Xenogears, Tetsuya Takahashi and Hirohide Sugiura left Squaresoft after they chose to not develop a sequel. On October 1, 1999, the two founded their own company, Monolith Soft, after accepting an investment from Namco, and continued the Xeno series.

In May of 2007, Namco sold 80% of its 96% stake in Monolith to Nintendo, giving Nintendo controlling interest in the company. Namco would later sell them the remaining 16% share, making Monolith a full first-party developer for Nintendo.

In 2011, Monolith would open a Kyoto office, mostly for 3D designers. The Kyoto studio has mostly provided development assistance for other Nintendo games.

Games as a Nintendo developer

Tokyo

Game Year Console
Baten Kaitos Origins 2006 Nintendo GameCube
Super Smash Bros. Brawl* 2008 Wii
Soma Bringer 2008 Nintendo DS
Disaster: Day of Crisis 2008 Wii
Xenoblade Chronicles 2010 Wii
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword** 2011 Wii
Project X Zone*** 2012 Nintendo 3DS
Xenoblade Chronicles X 2015 Wii U
Project X Zone 2 2015 Nintendo 3DS
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild****[1] 2016 Wii U, Nintendo Switch
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 2017 Nintendo Switch

* - Development cooperation for Sora Ltd.
** - Development cooperation for Nintendo EAD.
*** - Co-developed with Banpresto.
**** - Development cooperation for Nintendo EPD.

Kyoto

Note that all games listed were primarily developed by Nintendo EAD, and that Monolith only provided assistance in development.

Game Year Console
Animal Crossing: New Leaf 2012 Nintendo 3DS
Pikmin 3 2013 Wii U
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 2013 Nintendo 3DS
Splatoon 2015 Wii U
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer 2015 Nintendo 3DS
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild[1] 2017 Wii U, Nintendo Switch

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Monolith Is Helping Work On The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. Game Informer (June 17, 2016). Retrieved June 18, 2016.


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1st & 2nd Party / Owned
Internal divisions
Subsidiaries
Owned / Affiliated Seattle Mariners* • The Pokémon Company • Warpstar Inc.
* – Former / Defunct
3rd Parties / Partners
8-4 • AlphaDream* • Ambrella* • Argonaut Games* • Arika • Artoon* • Arzest • AS Tokyo Studios • Bandai Namco • Capcom • Camelot • Cing* • Creatures Inc. • DeNA • DigiNin* • DigitalScape • Eighting • Flagship* • Fuse Games* • Game Freak • Ganbarion • Genius Sonority • Good-Feel • Grezzo • HAL Laboratory • Hatena • Hudson Soft* • indieszero • iNiS • Intelligent Systems • Jamsworks • Jupiter • Koei Tecmo • Kuju • Left Field Productions* • Level-5 • Mistwalker • Monster Games • Noise • Paon • PlatinumGames • Q-Games • Rare* • Red Entertainment • Sega (Atlus) • Sora Ltd. • skip • Softnica • Spike Chunsoft • Square Enix • St.GIGA* • Syn Sophia • TOSE • Treasure • Vanpool* • Vitei
* – Former / Defunct
Key employees
Presidents
Managers, etc. Internal
Subsidiaries
  • NNSD: Yusuke Beppu
  • Monolith Soft: Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi
  • 1-Up Studio: Gen Kadoi
  • ND Cube: Hidetoshi Endo
  • Retro: Michael Kelbaugh
  • NERD: Alexandre Delattre