General Nintendo thread

Please let the animated Mario movie be good.

remember the live action mario bros movie

remember

Hey, it was a good Bladerunner movie.

Didn't know the name of the band was George Clinton and THE GOOMBAS.

I mean, it's still an awful movie, but I can't totally fault the logic behind that joke.

It wasn't. Pretty sure that was just for the movie. George Clinton's band was Parliament Funkadelic.

...Oh.

Well that that movie can burn.

Fun fact, the Yoshi animatronic was so impressive and ahead-of-its-time that the Jurassic Park producers wanted to hire its engineers.

Dosent the mixer section also have a charecter from street fighter 5, a ps4 exclusive? Also cant mixer be used to stream ps4 and switch games too?

It will be Illuminations most ambitious project yet. More fart jokes and annoying characters per minute than ever thought possible in a movie.

I still have no clue why they didnt approach any other studio about this. Disney and Pixar would be above using someone elses characters, but surely there must be better options? Dreamworks, Aardman, Laika, Sony, hell, even Blue Sky have a better track record, and they used to be everybodies punching bag.

After the Emoji Movie, I doubt Sony would be reputable.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Edited by qwigly on Mar 3rd 2019 at 8:07:53 AM

Dude, that was one movie. Sony's track record is actually... wait, no, I'm the only person who likes the Amazing Spider-Man movies.

Yeah, Enter the Spider-Verse was good, but production started on the Mario movie well before that, so it's not like Sony Animation was on people's minds. Also I question how enthusiastic Nintendo would be about letting Sony use one of their IPs.

Still, Dreamworks did Shrek and How to Train Your Dragon. Maybe Illumination just put in a lower bid. Or maybe Illumination movies just do better in Japan.

Illumination made the Despicable Me series and while I'm not a fan of some of their choices in the last two movies, the whole trilogy is pretty good. Same with the Minions movie and I say that as someone who isn't a fan of the minions themselves. I can understand why Nintendo would go with them.

Yeah Illumination makes cheap, inoffensive movies that make a lot of money. It makes perfect sense from a business standpoint.

Besides, if Pixar had made the Mario movie, we might have had to see Mario and Luigi’s parents die in the first ten minutes.

That joke doesn't really work. Pixar has only ever killed off one parent in 20 movies. Matter of fact, only other Pixar character who died in the first ten minutes was medically unable to become a parent.

Sure, if Nintendos only ambition is to make money. But that doesn't bode well for the movies quality.

while youre free to like it if you want, I personally couldn't stand Minions, and felt that Despicable Me 3 felt like a lazily cobbled together bunch of ideas for episodes of a Despicable Me animated series.

Edited by qwigly on Mar 4th 2019 at 11:12:48 AM

So this was posted on the Switch thread. Nintendo is launching a VR Labo kit in America on April 12; there doesn't appear to be any word on a European release date.

Game Developers' Conference is on March 18 - 22, and there are quite a few indications that Microsoft will officially announce that they're bringing XBox Live to the Switch.

Prediction: There will be a Direct, or at least a mini-Direct, between the 23rd and 31st of March, likely closer to the 23rd, where Nintendo talks about XBox Live and Labo VR. Also they'll show Joker gameplay in Super Smash Bros Ultimate and reveal the next DLC character.

Think about how wild any level of Nintendo-Xbox integration would have seemed to us ten years ago.

I have a feeling this is happening because Microsoft has been desperate for Japanese support for a while now.

Xbox sells notoriously bad in japan, even more so than most other systems (They are lucky enough to sell a single system a week there, to put it in perspective).

Honestly, that actually makes a lot of sense.

Particularly because I don’t think Microsoft cares if they sell Xboxes. But if they can open up Japan to purchasing Xbox Live and Gamepass? That would be huge to them.

(sigh) The way this is going, I might just have to eat my words regarding Banjo never being in Smash.

Just because Microsoft is working with won't automatically mean Banjo is possible,there are all sorts of hurdles to getting Banjo in Smash even with one out of the way there's still plenty of others

care to give a few examples?

Such as? It sounds like most of the time it's mostly just asking permission.

I mean there is the fact that Microsoft has apparently completely abandoned the Banjo IP.

Edited by LordVatek on Mar 7th 2019 at 1:52:15 PM