In addition to its usual financial shenanigans, Nintendo has announced that its plan to merge its European subsidiaries under one banner is now complete.
The merger - the details of which were originally divulged back in November 2022 - saw the likes of Nintendo France, Nintendo Benelux, and Nintendo Ibérica effectively cease to exist as separate identities, instead continuing to operate under the larger Nintendo of Europe label.
To coincide with this, the name 'Nintendo of Europe AG' has now been changed to 'Nintendo of Europe SE'.
Here's exactly what Nintendo said on the matter:
"Nintendo Co., Ltd. hereby announces that the procedures for the absorption-type merger as stated in “Notice Concerning Decision on the Intra-group Reorganization Plan” announced on November 8, 2022, have been completed and the schedule has been confirmed. With this completion, our subsidiary Nintendo of Europe AG (currently Nintendo of Europe SE), hereinafter “NOE”, became the surviving company, and Nintendo Ibérica, S.A. (hereinafter “NIB”), which was our sub-subsidiary, became the disappearing company."
As we mentioned in the original announcement post, the merger would likely have no immediate material impact on customer experience, but Nintendo stated that the changes would allow for "improvement in business efficiency and acceleration in decision making".
Elsewhere, Nintendo has provided updated figures on Switch hardware sales alongside its usual list of top ten best-selling Switch games. All in all, it's been an expectedly dry quarter for the company, but big things are on the horizon.
Do you have any thoughts on the NoE merger? Leave a comment down below and let us know.
[source nintendo.co.jp]
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Maybe, they can change their main office from Germany to another country now? I mean, some games are still banned in Germany, and 'cause of this, all European countries don't have access to buy those games digitally. Dying Light: Platinum Edition is available on Switch, you know? But, only in US and Japan, 'cause game was banned in Germany. So... Why not?
We'll see if there will be consequences of this visible to the public, of course hope they'll be good in that case!
Nintendo: Special Edition™️
United Nintendo Kingdom?
@Vyacheslav333 yes this, Germany is awful for online services… dying light still isn’t available in the EU. I mean at least create a “letterbox company” in France, Belgium or the Netherlands and make it possible to sell games which are approved anywhere expect for Germany.
@ferryb001 Yeah, years have passed, and still no Dying Light on European Nintendo eShop. It hurt game's sales, of course.
@SmartNickname Digitally, on Nintendo eShop, Dying Light is unavailable in European countries. Only in US and Japan.
Is it still German?
So Nintendo of Europe: Special Edition
I'm still dreaming of NOE going into game development.
@Olliemar28 The press release makes it read ‘AG’ is the new company not ‘SE’.
Meanwhile Nintendo in Scandinavia will still be called Bergsala.
Bergsala got permission to not use Nintendo as a thanks because he brought NES to Europe and created the market there.
I wish Nintendo of Europe would extend into Central and Eastern Europe… it would be easier to get special edition games and controllers from MyNintendo as well
@Vyacheslav333 What are you taking about? I own Dying Light Platinum Edition physically, a PAL release no less. Maybe it was not released in Germany indeed, but the rest of Europe did get it.
EDIT: The version I personally own is the even more complete Definitive Edition even, although the cartridge label still says Platinum.
@RudyC3 Try to find it on European Nintendo eShop.
@Vyacheslav333 Ok fair enough, I never buy digitally and thought you meant it never released in Europe at all. But you can easily create a US account and get it on the American eShop instead, there are no such restrictions. Why insist on getting something digital from one specific storefront? And then like I said the physical version exists (two different versions even).
I admit that it's still annoying. Just because it's banned in Germany shouldn't mean that the rest of Europe shouldn't be allowed to play it, I agree on that at least (even if the ban itself is a German decision, not Nintendo's).
I confirm: Dying light is not available digitally in France.
@ferryb001 Come to the netherlands, we have the least restrictions on content in games!
@Twilite9 I mean, NERD makes the emulators Nintendo uses. They're the reason why the Mario 3D All-Stars got a release.
@Twilite9 Wasn't NERD (Nintendo Europe Research & Development) the group that developed the NES & SNES Mini emulators, as well as the Switch Online emulators? Clearly they are capable of developing quality software, so it'd be interesting to see what they could produce on their own
@Samalik you beat me to in
Stephan Bole is French, and the top 5 best selling games every week in France is for Nintendo (physical releases).
The Nintendo store at Japan Expo in Paris was a huge success.
Or why not in Switzerland, but it could cost a lot coming for a lot of europeans, maybe. I guess it depends of the market.
Nintendo underperformed with Switch in Europe, compared to PS4 sales. It's Sony's Territory...I hope more light for Nintendo here, in the old continent.
Nice, more jobs gathered into Germany and less to other countries. As if non-German speakers had it easy to work there.
Move to Southern Europe for a change!
@datamonkey No, it says that NIB was absorbed by NoE AG, and the latter is now NoE SE („currently“).
Regarding the “name change”. AG is a company type in Germany, while SE is on the EU-level, hence the change.
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea
I can confirm that digitaly many of those games are not available.
How does this work again? Like do the previously separate subsidiaries now operate as branches of NoE or what?
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