Xenoblade developer Monolith Soft is now wholly owned by Nintendo, but considering it hasn’t released a game on a different platform in almost 20 years, it probably doesn’t mean much.

Monolith Soft, the developer behind the Xenoblade Chronicles series and main support studio for Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now exclusively owned by Nintendo.

While it’s been around for almost two and a half decades, Monolith Soft has made a name for itself over the last 10 years with the Xenoblade Chronicles series, and for good reason. They’re solid, robust RPGs that connect in really fun ways, and the developer has clearly proven itself to be a solid studio over the years by offering support on a wide range of titles like Breath of the Wild, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and all. Three Splatoon games. Now, as reported by Automaton, it appears that Monolith Soft is fully owned by Nintendo, a move that probably won’t make the slightest difference in the grand scheme of things, but which obviously makes sense.

Nintendo has owned 96% of Monolith Soft’s shares since 2011, the last 4% being in the symbolic hands of the company’s founders, except as seen on Monolith Soft’s website, the Mario maker is now a full owner. . In many cases, one company owning another can be a big deal, but Monolith hasn’t even released a game on a platform other than Nintendo since 2006 with Xenosaga Episode 3 on the PS2. So, yeah, you can probably expect things to stay the same at both Nintendo and Monolith Soft.

It’s unclear at this point if Monolith has anything entirely original in the works; What we do know, however, is that Xenoblade Chronicles years now. It will also probably be one of the last big titles to come to Switch, considering that the Switch 2 release, or whatever it’s called, will definitely be out sometime next year.