Nintendo takes maker video codecs about

Nintendo has acquired Mobiclip, a French company that has existed longer video codecs, and delivers to the Japanese consolebouwer. Details about the acquisition were not disclosed. A codec, Mobiclip is used in the Nintendo 3DS.

Website GamesIndustry discovered on the site of the French Mobiclip, the communication states that the company is a part of Nintendo. Details about the acquisition are not there. So it is not known when the deal between Nintendo and the French is closed or how much money with the transaction is involved. The French company describes itself as a research and development center specializing in highly optimized software technologies”.

Mobiclip is known from the video codecs that it does for the handhelds of the Japanese company. As provided Mobiclip video compression software for the Gameboy Advance, the Nintendo DS and the new 3DS. It is suspected that Nintendo, the French company has bought as a harbinger of the provision of streaming video for the 3DS and the Wii U, the console that the Japanese later this year on the market, hope to bring.