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Monolith Soft
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Founded	1999
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Tetsuya Takahashi Yasuyuki Honne Hirohide Sugiura
Products	Baten Kaitos series Xenosaga series Xenoblade

Monolith Soft is a first party Nintendo developer purchased by Nintendo in 2007. Prior to the buyout, Namco Bandai owned a majority of the company. Originally Nintendo only purchased 80% of Namco Bandai's 96%, but in 2011 they bought out the rest. Company President Hirohide Suigara and lead designers Tetsuya Takahashi and Yasuyuki Honne each also own a limited number of shares.

In 2011, Nintendo expanded Monolith Soft, and created a smaller branch of the company in Kyoto, so that they could work more closely with Nintendo. Yasuyuki Honne was made head of this branch, and their first game was Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which was released in Japan on November 8, 2012. Outside of co-developing Nintendo software, Monolith Soft Kyoto is also creating original software for Nintendo systems.

List of gamesEdit

Tokyo BranchEdit

As a third party developer

• Xenosaga Episode I - PS2
• Xenosaga Episode I: Reloaded - PS2
• Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean - GameCube (co-developed with tri-Crescendo)
• Xenosaga Freaks - PS2
• Xenosaga Episode II - PS2
• Namco X Capcom- PS2 
• Baten Kaitos Origins - GameCube (co-developed with tri-Crescendo) (First game published by Nintendo)
• Xenosaga: Episode I & II - Nintendo DS
• Xenosaga Episode III - PS2

As a first party studioEdit

• Soma Bringer - Nintendo DS
• Disaster: Day of Crisis - Wii
• Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier (co-developed with Banpresto) - Nintendo DS
• Dragon Ball Kai: Saiyan Invasion - Nintendo DS
• Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier EXCEED (co-developed with Banpresto) - Nintendo DS
• Xenoblade Chronicles - Wii
• Project X Zone -  Nintendo 3DS
• X - Wii U

Development SupportEdit

• Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Wii
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - Wii

Kyoto BranchEdit

• Untitled 3DS Project - Nintendo 3DS

Development SupportEdit

• Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Nintendo 3DS