Nintendo is about to purchase its second shut ally in as a few years. Eurogamer reports Nintendo is acquiring SRD, one in every of its longest-serving sport improvement companions. SRD has labored with Nintendo because the NES period, and extra lately helped with Switch hits like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In that gentle, it is virtually shocking Nintendo hadn’t purchased SRD sooner.

The purchases is predicted to shut on April 1st. Nintendo did not say how a lot it paid for SRD, however the improvement home will develop into a wholly-owned subsidiary. The firm purchased Luigi’s Mansion creator Next Level Games in January 2021.

This is not as aggressive a transfer as Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buyout or Sony’s acquisition of Bungie. Not that Nintendo is anxious, thoughts you. Company president Shuntaro Furukawa recently said traders should not count on purchases of studios that lack “Nintendo DNA,” and the Switch remains to be a scorching vendor. Nintendo simply is not in a rush to snap up builders, and this seems to be largely centered on securing companions whereas the corporate is flush with money.