In an interview with Fortune, Miyamoto — who oversees Nintendo’s Software Planning & Development Division — stated that the company has received a lot of offers to pursue film opportunities in the past, but has been reluctant to pursue them due to inherent differences between movies and video games.
Miyamoto said:
“As we look more broadly at what is Nintendo’s role as an entertainment company, we’re starting to think more and more about how movies can fit in with that—and we’ll potentially be looking at things like movies in the future.”
“We’ve had, over the years, a number of people who have come to us and said ‘Why don’t we make a movie together—or we make a movie and you make a game and we’ll release them at the same time?’,” Miyamoto told Fortune at this year’s E3.
- On games tendencies of emulating film:
“Because games and movies seem like similar mediums, people’s natural expectation is we want to take our games and turn them into movies. … I’ve always felt video games, being an interactive medium, and movies, being a passive medium, mean the two are quite different.”
- In the June Earnings there was a statement, which seemed buried, that pointed at a Nintendo approach to film:
“For Nintendo IP, a more active approach will be taken in areas outside the video game business, including visual content production and character merchandising.”
http://fortune.com/2015/08/21/nintendo-movie-partnerships/
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