There’s a high chance/a real chance Nintendo is becoming a legitimate film studio or at least an animation house in the very near future imo.
This is very similar to how the NES broke Nintendo into the gaming industry after the crash. The Mario Movie has been attributed to bringing families back to theaters after COVID.
Also, animation studios/brands are not what they used to be. Blue Sky and DreamWorks used to be competitive and were good competition for Disney and Pixar. Those have gone by the wayside. Pixar and Disney dominated and monopolized the animation genre pre-pandemic. Only Illumination was their competitor. There are not enough big studios anymore.
The pandemic happened and destroyed both Disney animation and Pixar as viable brands in the theatre and to general audiences. People were declaring animation is dead in theatres or whatever very recently. Because the monopoly Disney had over animation in recent times, when it’s damaged there’s no other studio to fill that role. Illumination is that but one big studio can’t carry the whole genre. The death of Pixar left a huge hole. There are holes to be filled and imo Nintendo will be that thing to fill the holes just like they did back in 1983. Honestly, it’s not even up to Nintendo to decide. The market needs another player and the audience is clearly here for it with open arms.
There are lines and parallels here with what COVID did to the movie business and the 1983 video game crash.
Also, you guys are seriously underestimating Zelda. That’s another BILLION dollar picture in the making.
Last edited by BlackBeauty - on 25 April 2023
