Not gonna lie, I thought of this long before the news broke of Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm. Disney is buying as many big-name successful entertainment franchises as they possibly can. And I personally think it’s been a good thing for movies. Pixar has done very well under Disney’s watch; Toy Story 3 and other great Pixar movies are testament to that. Marvel Studios has been increasingly successful at turning out good movies with mass appeal, and it seems Disney did not get in the way but only bolstered their success.
As Disney’s shake-up of Lucasfilm goes, so Nintendo must go. I expect that when Nintendo hits bottom in their creativity nuthouse, we could see Disney reach out and pluck Nintendo from the maelstrom, shake ’em up, and restart a major component of the gaming revolution (to their great profit).
Lucasfilm and Nintendo both have gone down a route of disappointment for long-term fans. However, while Lucasfilm has made their money from the films, small Nintendo did not make as much of a profit or growing fan base from the Gamecube direction they were and are now taking.
Unlike with Pixar and Marvel, Disney is probably going to be starting a new team to make the Star Wars sequels, and they will also be going against the disappointment of the prequel trilogy. If Disney actually does an excellent job and matches or comes close to the greatness of the original trilogy, then I could see Disney’s shake-up of Nintendo going well with the right decisions being made.
Another thing I don’t see widespread news of is that Indiana Jones is likely under Disney’s ownership as well. It should be interesting to see what they do with that.
It is interesting that Disney made a movie using video game characters, even using Bowser as one of its characters:
The big issue with this whole idea is that Disney is and has always been a movie company. The whole rearrangement of Nintendo would be a matter of choosing the right developers for the job, making the focus on the GAMES, and putting the business pressure on them. Maybe Disney would be up for the job, but I’m pretty sure they’d think and calculate long and hard to know what they’d do if they make the decision.
Hopefully Nintendo will snap into reality once their new products fail spectacularly, and the shake-up will occur without need for interference by a huge movie company.Yamauchi and his friends own Nintendo. And they will never sell Nintendo especially to a non-Japanese company.I don’t play the ‘what if’ game. If is for children. (Unless you write science fiction then ‘if’ is your bread and butter!)
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