Shiver Entertainment Has Updated Its Website After Being Acquired By Nintendo

Welcome to the Nintendo family Shiver.

Wow, this gave me shivers down my spine! Oh wait, I don't have a spine...

I would like to see nintendo acquiring more developers, they should've acquired rare when they had the chance

Technically speaking, “multiple platforms” could very well mean Switch and whatever the next Nintendo console is.

I look forward to fruitlessly yelling at YouTubers who make 20 minute videos about "why there's a Nintendo studio in Florida" and spend 19 minutes making snide remarks and infernances about Embracer.

@AccessibleDaydream That's what I was thinking. Could also mean that they'll finish up any contracts they already had in the mix.

Contracts already in place. Once they are done they will be Nintendo only.

Ok…. Now Shiver, Nintendo, Bethesda and MS need to have a sit down and figure out some proper Fallout on Switch.

If they’d acquired Panic Button (Doom, Doom Eternal) THEN I’d be happy… but people behind the load time hell of Hogwarts Legacy? And the blur fest of MK1? My jaw is sealed firmly shut.

@PoundShopOrwell I’d like to assume Nintendo know what they’re doing when it comes to the technical stuff of their hardware. Maybe they’re still impressed with what Shiver achieved with what little the Switch packs under the hood.

Mortal Kombat 1 was a ***** show.

@AccessibleDaydream The website specifically says: "We focus on console (Nintendo Switch and other platforms) and PC development for large AAA titles."
Doesn't sound to me like only Switch and Switch successor is meant.

Welcome to the Big N Family Shiver! Expecting great things from them. Hopefully they can help The Pokémon Company / Game Freak optimize their games for the Switch and its successor. I've been playing Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and it shows how great games can look on Switch. After playing Scarlet, I was amazed by how bad it actually is, compared to an optimized game like XBC.

@SBandy1 @PoundShopOrwell MK1 has been significantly improved since launch and honestly Hogwarts Legacy looking and running as well as it does is impressive anyway you look at it. Plus those games initially targeted higher end machines with MK1 not even getting last gen ports, not to mention Hogwarts Legacy is much bigger in scope to Doom/Eternal so it’s pretty amazing the Switch got solid versions even if they’re not the best way to play them.

Remember, the Switch was already dated when it launched. If they’re able to port over current gen games to a 7 year old tablet and have them still perform respectably then they’re definitely well suited to port games to the next Switch which will presumably be much more powerful

@SBandy1 - In all honesty; MK1 has been one across the board, Switch just had extra problems stacked on top.

I am confident that if Shiver does anything for other platforms, it's just going to be because they're honoring prior contracts. It's just so incongruent with Nintendo's overall strategy. They haven't allowed anything of theirs on other platforms - why would they let one of their subsidiaries contribute to development for other hardware going forward? They also have no need to go multiplatform to recoup costs brought on by skyrocketing budgets.

@SBandy1 MK1 was crap even on other platforms, Shiva only handles the Switch version and they did a great job with it just like they did MK11.

@PoundShopOrwell Those same issues (blur and load times) were also in the other versions as well so it's not really Shiva's fault as they are trying to make it as close to those versions as possible.

@BTB20 Thanks for clarifying. I didn’t actually read the website, to be honest.

@Randinator123 People keep saying this, but if Nintendo didn’t think Rare was worth the money they was asking for… Then it was for good reason. Rare was already heading down hill before Microsoft purchased. The only thing the Microsoft purchase did was allow people to point fingers at Microsoft for Rare down fall.

@AverageGamer 90s gamers need to move on from Rare one day

@AverageGamer Rareware was at their peek with the N64 KI2/KI Gold, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie & Tooie, Conker, Diddy Kong Racer, Donkey Kong 64 and Perfect Dark (plus the sprinkling of other neat smaller titles). It would be hard for any developer to keep pumping out bangers like those at that rare. Rare's first few years with Xbox was solid with Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Conker Live & Reloaded, Viva Pinata and Kameo. But, after the bungle of Perfect Dark Zero it felt like every title was in development hell... Sea of Thieves has been a success, but not near their 90s peek.

I'd argue if it were not for the sale Star Fox Adventures would had been a much better game. But that's really the only blemish on their time with Nintendo and it's not entirely the developers fault.

By the time Xbox bought Rare they were a shadow of what they use to be.
Alot of talent had left them and gave us the likes of timesplitters.
Starfox adventures was a long in development disappointment and ive never personally liked it at all.
They also released a lot of meh gba games and grabbed by the ghoulies was very medicore and kameo though decent was very short and just didn't become a big hit (may been just the wrong game for its time).
Perfect dark zero was just awful.
I love N64 era Rare but it was a bit of a sinking ship already when xbox bought it.

@PoundShopOrwell You need to know what this means to Shiver.

They get now get support from Nintendo through more funding and hardware tools. They were likely scooped by Nintendo because they were able to get those games running on Switch. And now they have access to all the resources to making even better ports.