Nintendo wants to enter the filmmaking biz.

[bigtakilla]

Soundwave said:

bigtakilla said:

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. 

Oh I'm certainly not syaing it would outdo a Pokemon movie... .In fact we got some pretty solid numbers on how a Pokemon movie would do.

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Pokemon#tab=summary

I'm not even arguing a Zelda or Mario movie pulling in higher numbers.... Because they would. 

All I'm saying is there would be an audience for a Xenoblade film. Probably a pretty big one.