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bigtakilla on 18 May 2016
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spemanig said:
bigtakilla said:

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.

Not an even remotely big one. A microscopic one.

Not that it matters. These movies aren't meant to reward current fans. They're made to create new ones. The notion that Nintendo wouldn't pick a franchise for a movie adaptation because it's "too small" is absurd. That's the point of this stuff. To make their IP more well known, household names. That's why, to me, Mario is definitely not getting his own, stand alone movie.

Metroid - Introduce Samus.

The Legend of Zelda - Introduce Link, Zelda/Sheik, and Ganondorf.

Starfox - Introduce Fox and Falco.

Super Mash Bros. - Make this Mario's "movie," and introduce other characters like Luigi, Peach, Bowser, the Koopalings, Donkey Kong and Diddy, Kirby, Captain Falcon, Pikachu and Jiggly Puff, etc. Obviously include the characters from the first three. I wouldn't break hearts by introducing Ness, though. Let's kill that dream now. Plus, they don't want to oversaturate the first film with too many characters.

Then make three more movies as the first three expand into trologies.

Luigi's Mansion

F-Zero

Pokemon (If Nintendo are Disney-Marvel and Smash is their Avengers, Pokemon is Spider-Man. I'd love to see it happen in their universe, but let's be real. Sony-TPC won't allow that)

More than likely I think we can put Star Fox in a grave for a little while. WIth the numbers it pulled I think that will be the game that misses the next generation. 

LoZ is far too obvious, and they got a long time before they are even going to release a next iteration of. The True Zelda NX will be lucky to see five years from 2017 (2022). The best boost to software would be if the movie releases close to it. 

Smash is the obvious first choice, and from their, the next game they will probably want to boost interest in is Xenoblade X (which will look to be coming out in around 2 years). However, with Smash you are introducing a TON of characters. There is also the question if they will just remake 4 and not have a new Smash on NX. So should it come first?.... SHould it come last, after everyone (or at least most) has been introduced?... It could work either way.

One thing is for certain, they will use one to boost the other.