Nintendo wants to enter the filmmaking biz.

[Soundwave]

bigtakilla said:

Soundwave said:
Xenoblade ... c'mon guys who the fuck is seriously going to watch that, let alone finance it to the tune of $100 million dollars with marketing/distribution costs.

It's going to be big IP like Mario, Pokemon, Donkey Kong, Zelda ... things the average person would know, not just a group of a couple of hundred Nintendo fans on an internet site.

A high budget giant robot movie wouldn't grab anime fans..... That's a new one...

This is a niche audience, even Pacific Rim which had a monster budget didn't light the box office on fire. Nintendo is not going to pick some C-tier IP to launch themselves into the movie business. 

This is about getting a taste of the big bucks that franchised properties like The LEGO Movie, Angry Birds Movie, and other kids CG films like Kung Fu Panda and Shrek pull in.