Super Smash Bros 4 (Wii U/3DS) Topic

[Substitution]

Hope the Wii U lasts more than a couple years.

At the rate it's going, I'm not sure...

 

[Reznor]

Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers x Starfox
Darkwing Duck x F-Zero
Roger Rabbit x Phoenix Wright (ya it's capcom but I don't care)

 

[Starcutter]

Well, I definitely know what I'm talking about tomorrow on my new show

 

[Arcadenik]

What? Disney X Nintendo crossover? Is this for real or are you guys just speculating/trolling?

 

[Xhampi]

Hope the Wii U lasts more than a couple years.

If that's the price to pay to get Nintendo to realize some of their mistakes, then so be it =/

 

[Starphoenix]

English slides are up:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/140130/index.html

Let me first talk about redefining the concept of a video game platform.
This medium-term goal is not expected to come to full fruition within the timeframe of this current calendar year. However, I feel that this is going to play an extremely crucial role in deciding whether dedicated video game platforms can adjust to rapid environmental changes in today’s market and can develop as a sound business.

The traditional definition of a video game platform was closely related to some kind of hardware and it would be no exaggeration to say that platforms were equivalent in meaning to physical devices.

As we continue to redefine our platforms from a device-based system to an account-based system using NNIDs, we will also try to change the way in which dedicated video game systems as well as software are sold that people have come to take for granted.

Also, we are planning to utilize Nintendo’s abundance of character IP more actively. I think the reason that Nintendo is now considered to have this “abundance of character IP” is perhaps because of our passive approach toward the character IP licensing business, which tends to have a high risk of damaging the value of the character. In other words, we think that spending time to develop our approach of having our characters appear mainly in our carefully selected games has created our current fortunate circumstances. However, we are going to change our policy going forward.

I would like to tell you about something different from our traditional business.
We will definitely maintain dedicated video game platforms as our core business, bu twe will also take on the challenge of expanding into a new business area.

We will attempt to establish a new platform business with which we can leverage our strengths, but which is independent from our video game platform business.

 

[Starcutter]

English slides are up:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/140130/index.html

These make much more sense.

 

[Autumn ♫]

Wait, so what did I miss? I'm hearing all of this crazy stuff. What's happening?!

 

[Xhampi]

What? Disney X Nintendo crossover? Is this for real or are you guys just speculating/trolling?

Trolling don't worry.
We heard that Iwata was talking philosophy with Disney, so we get a little crazy =p

 

[Big-Cat]

Looks like this health thing will be separate altogether which is a gigantic relief if so.

 

[Starcutter]

Wait, so what did I miss? I'm hearing all of this crazy stuff. What's happening?!

Iwata making changes to nintendo

 

[Starphoenix]

Reading over Iwata's comments about licensing their IP, it sounds like they are talking in a broader sense beyond just games. This might mean we could see some Nintendo-based movies down the road. Disney and Pixar could do wonders with a Super Mario or Star Fox film, and might just be the type of unconventional promotion they need to grab some mind share of the young children demographic they've admitted to not targeting effectively. Not only would you get the kids, but you'd also get the parents and older siblings as well.

 

[Substitution]

Reading over Iwata's comments about Nintendo licensing their IP, it sounds like they are talking in a broader sense beyond just games. This might mean we could see some Nintendo-based movies down the road. Disney and Pixar could do wonders with a Super Mario or Star Fox film, and might just be the type of unconventional promotion they need to grab some mind share of the young children demographic they've admitted to not targeting effectively. Not only would you get the kids, but you'd also get the parents and older siblings as well.

At least we'll have something else to yell about.
...What? It's gonna happen...

 

[PadWarrior]

I want a Smash Bros toyline.

 

[Arcadenik]

Ahh, well... to be honest... if we cannot have Kingdom Hearts games on the Nintendo home consoles, then I would love it if we got "Mushroom Kingdom Hearts" for the Wii U... Disney X Nintendo... hell, instead of Sora... Captain N is the protagonist (please no spiky anime hair).

 

[Substitution]

Ahh, well... to be honest... if we cannot have Kingdom Hearts games on the Nintendo home consoles, then I would love it if we got "Mushroom Kingdom Hearts" for the Wii U... Disney X Nintendo... hell, instead of Sora... Captain N is the protagonist (please no spiky anime hair).

Someone draw that...
...Immediately!

 

[Pacack]

Reading over Iwata's comments about licensing their IP, it sounds like they are talking in a broader sense beyond just games. This might mean we could see some Nintendo-based movies down the road. Disney and Pixar could do wonders with a Super Mario or Star Fox film, and might just be the type of unconventional promotion they need to grab some mind share of the young children demographic they've admitted to not targeting effectively. Not only would you get the kids, but you'd also get the parents and older siblings as well.

I'd kill for a good Legend of Zelda movie.

I want a Smash Bros toyline.

Yes.

 

[Starcutter]

Reading over Iwata's comments about licensing their IP, it sounds like they are talking in a broader sense beyond just games. This might mean we could see some Nintendo-based movies down the road. Disney and Pixar could do wonders with a Super Mario or Star Fox film, and might just be the type of unconventional promotion they need to grab some mind share of the young children demographic they've admitted to not targeting effectively. Not only would you get the kids, but you'd also get the parents and older siblings as well.

I'd take a Zelda movie.


To go, please

 

[Arcadenik]

Someone draw that...
...Immediately!

Do it yourself.

 

[Substitution]

I'd take a Zelda movie.


To go, please

Well, there was that one a while back...

Do it yourself.

...I suck at drawing...

 

[Rouge]

I always said that Mulan had Fire Emblem lord written all over her.

 

[Kef]

Pixar doing films based on Nintendo games would be a dream come true.

 

[Autumn ♫]

If I may ask, what all changed, I'm no used to all the big words.

 

[Substitution]

Pixar doing films based on Nintendo games would be a dream come true.

Zelda would be great!
It's essentially made for Pixar!

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Good movie adaptions of Zelda and Metroid would blow my mind, kill me, then bring me back to life.

We need new words to fully describe how happy that would make me.

 

[Pacack]

"Nintendo’s history definitely suggests that Nintendo has always flexibly innovated itself in line with the times.
After Nintendo started the manufacture and sale of Hanafuda (traditional Japanese playing cards) 125 years ago, it has innovated itself from a playing card company to a toy company, a toy company to an electronic toy company and an electronic toy company to a company running video game platforms. What has remained the same, however, was we always tried to create something new from materials and technologies available at that time and to position entertainment as our core business. Furthermore, even after we established the business structure of video game platforms, we did not stop innovating ourselves. For instance, home video game consoles were born to play coin-operated arcade games at home, but we have evolved them into something uniquely appealing. Another example is the games to expand the gaming population that we have offered with Nintendo DS and Wii in the last decade, which were clearly foreign to the mainstream video games at that time but were accepted by a great variety of consumers. In this way, we will continue to value self-innovation in the future.
In addition to self-innovation, we have shaped our future by collaborating with various outside partners which we saw as appropriate at the time in order to adapt to environmental changes. Such collaboration has been a part of all our operations from research and development to manufacture and sales. In addition to our own efforts, collaborating with good partners will be one important way to adapt to the recent dynamic changes surrounding video games.

Given this background, in expanding our dedicated video game platforms in the future, we hope to firmly decide what aspects from the past should be kept and what should be dramatically changed in order to leverage our core competency."

They remember <3

 

[Big-Cat]

Reading over Iwata's comments about licensing their IP, it sounds like they are talking in a broader sense beyond just games. This might mean we could see some Nintendo-based movies down the road. Disney and Pixar could do wonders with a Super Mario or Star Fox film, and might just be the type of unconventional promotion they need to grab some mind share of the young children demographic they've admitted to not targeting effectively. Not only would you get the kids, but you'd also get the parents and older siblings as well.

Rosalina will sing Let It Go.

 

[Arcadenik]

I want a Smash Bros toyline.

Sounds fun! Maybe it could be like Skylanders and Disney Infinity... except with Nintendo characters.

I'd kill for a good Legend of Zelda movie.

Yes.

But then people would whine about Link's voice... that he is supposed to be mute (What do they want him to do? Use sign language?) like in the games... and how the storyline sucked and doesn't fit in the timeline... and how Link froze in fear when he saw Ganon before Tingle screams "remember me?" and shoots Ganon into the lava...

 

[Starphoenix]

At least we'll have something else to yell about.
...What? It's gonna happen...

That's why I selected Disney because I feel they, or Pixar more accurately, have the most in common philosophically with Nintendo and can give a film based on their IP new life while being true to the games themselves. The marketing would be huge for them -- and I'm not just saying this as an armchair business analyst -- it would get their IP back into the consciousness of the mainstream public which, frankly, is more familiar with Angry Birds and Minecraft than just about any Nintendo IP bar the main stays.

Imagine an Animal Crossing film done by Pixar. The misadventures of a boy settling into a new town. A lesson in acceptance and finding contentment where you are in life.

 

[Autumn ♫]

I'd love to see a Mother movie, as good of a storyline Mother has, I think it'd make a great movie.
Pikmin could also potentially turn out very well too.

 

[CatRaccoonBL]

So wait. Are we or are we not getting Smash in the summer or do we still don't know?

 

[Starcutter]

I want a cave story movie made by Disney.


Unfortunately the closest thing that we got to that was a cave story reference in a Disney channel show.

 

[PadWarrior]

So wait. Are we or are we not getting Smash in the summer or do we still don't know?

We're not getting it in summer. Smash was not mentioned. Only Mario Kart 8 in may.

 

[Big-Cat]

I'd love to see a Mother movie, as good of a storyline Mother has, I think it'd make a great movie.
Pikmin could also potentially turn out very well too.

Pixar could do wonders with Shigesato Itoi.

 

[Arcadenik]

OMG.... yes... imagine that!!! They gotta make a Mother movie trilogy... well, that or make an "Adventure Time"-like cartoon based on the Mother series.

 

[Kef]

I'd love to see a Mother movie, as good of a storyline Mother has, I think it'd make a great movie.
Pikmin could also potentially turn out very well too.

"A Pikmin's Life"?

 

[CatRaccoonBL]

We're not getting it in summer. Smash was not mentioned. Only Mario Kart 8 in may.

I am happy about that.

Means more hype and more polish to me. :D

 

[Xhampi]

Sounds fun! Maybe it could be like Skylanders and Disney Infinity... except with Nintendo characters.


But then people would whine about Link's voice... that he is supposed to be mute (What do they want him to do? Use sign language?) like in the games... and how the storyline sucked and doesn't fit in the timeline... and how Link froze in fear when he saw Ganon before Tingle screams "remember me?" and shoots Ganon into the lava...

Zelda should scream "USE YOUR LIGHT ARROWS" then.

 

[Starcutter]

But then people would whine about Link's voice... that he is supposed to be mute (What do they want him to do? Use sign language?) like in the games... and how the storyline sucked and doesn't fit in the timeline... and how Link froze in fear when he saw Ganon before Tingle screams "remember me?" and shoots Ganon into the lava...

About link's voice, they could mostly make navi or something talk for him.

 

[Autumn ♫]

"A Pikmin's Life"?

I'm thinking more of Olimar coming to the Pikmin planet and discovering them, creating a bond between them. It'd be alot like a more epic Documentary movie, but with boss fights.

You know, with the possibility of Nintendo and Disney teaming up, it's completely possible to have this be real someday.