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Cobretti2 on 25 April 2023
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mZuzek said:
Soundwave said:

I remember even working in retail in the late 90s and a grandmother coming in to buy a Zelda DX on Game Boy Color and saying she knew the brand because she had taught her grand daughter how to read using the game and the instruction manual. Zelda may not make a billion right out of the gate, but I could definitely see 750 million+ and then subsequent sequel Zelda films having 1+ billion potential.

Much like not everyone knew Iron Man and Guardians of the Galaxy at one point were a C-tier Marvel IP.

I think putting those two in the same category is a bit much. In Nintendo terms, Iron Man before the MCU would be like Star Fox, whereas Guardians would be like a Golden Sun or something. Totally different realms of popularity. And yeah Zelda is for sure a bigger name than either of those were - it probably still is a bigger name than at least one of them.

Agree with the Star Fox analogy and also why I think with how TV during COVID has changed how a lot of people watch entertainment, I think streaming on TV is the spot for it, similar to how The Last of Us ended up there.

In terms of Marvel, it is a good example of how they built something from relatively nothing.

Even the complexity of the way they tie in all the MCU movies, makes me wonder, did someone sit down and write a 20-30 year plan for it? or they just got some crazy ass writers who are able o come up with innovative ways as they go along to tie things up.

The thing that blew my mind the most was how Spider-Man no way home tied up the three spider verses into each other so smoothly. Before that I was pissed off that they kept rebooting spider-man instead of sticking with one for a longer period of time. Now the writers in this were either geniuses and achieved it or it was planned well and helped the writers write the story over the last 20 years.