Topic: Disney can save Nintendo, and it would only cost $19 billion (Article)

I've always thought a Nintendo-Disney partnership made a lot of sense, but i wouldn't want to see Nintendo lose their autonomy. Nintendo needs to remain it's own thing, a guy like Miyamoto doesn't need to be neutered. Nintendo uses the fact they are cash rich and free of outside coercion to lead and not follow, they can be creative with their business model and not have such a strong expectation to follow market trends.

A Disney run Nintendo theme park would do exceptionally well and would provide essential marketing for a company that seems to value less traditional and more entertainment based forms of advertising. Imagine going to the Mushroom Kingdom, Hyrule, Zebes, all themed as exceptionally well as the Disney parks are, the ability to merge video games and technology in new ways to entertain people would be astounding. I've also always thought Nintendo would be smart to leverage their IP through Disney and have them develop movies and TV series, such a deal could even see Nintendo negotiate exclusive access to a Disney streaming service. In saying all that i like the idea of Nintendo keeping these things separate from the rest of their business, kind of like the Pokemon Company, a separately run business that brings together the interests of all the parties involved. I don't think Nintendo needs a big brother.

Disney is more likely to buy Sony. Sony is financial troubles deeper than Nintendo, Sony has a lot of brands that Disney could use, plus it would majorly boost Disney's gaming arm.

Also, I laugh at people who think Polygon is anything but incessant click-baiting.

@Kevlar44 - I agree that a partnership would be beneficial, but I don't see either benefiting from a buyout (I still question if that's even possible, since Nintendo is Japanese?), especially while Nintendo's so expensive.

Honestly, they used to be terrible, but Now IGN's getting better. Not a ton better, but quite a few of their old hats left to become straight up PR guys for Playstation and Microsoft (and some Nintendo guys even left to work on Nintendo-related projects, like NF Magazine), and the new blood has helped to shake things up and address some of the issues here and there that have plagued them for years. Trust me, though, reading them from 2007-early 2012 was just painful more often than it should've been.

As someone who just wrote a 112 page paper on Nintendo, I have to say that Disney would be smart to buy as much of nintendo as possilble right now because in the long-term, Nintendo is the only company that can compete with Disney, even though they are only a fraction of what Disneyis right now.

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Eh, didn't read it. Seems pointless.

It does seem pointless it just funny ... Disney buying Nintendo is like Burger King buying McDonald's. It will never happen

I've always felt that Nintendo is the Disney of video games so I would like to see these two companies working together in some capacity. I don't want Disney to buy Nintendo though, since I feel the first thing they'd do is shut down their hardware division. I would like to see Disney make Pixar quality movies based on Nintendo IPs, and add a "Nintendoland" section to their theme parks. Maybe Nintendo could let their amiibos work in some capacity in Disney Infinity.

Seriously though, I feel like if Nintendo got their act together they could easily become a strong competitor against Disney (it might take them a while since Disney is a media empire but still).

Disney has shown repeatedly that they are a benevolent parenting company that doesn't meddle. Miramax is a great, example, Pulp Fiction is technically a Disney movie. So the ownership in that regard wouldn't be a big issue, but it would come with a more powerful and successful marketing machine, especially in the West. Mr. Iwata knows how to sell Wii Us to Japan, but not to North America and Europe.

But I'm not really seeing why Disney would bother? $19bil is a ridiculously enormous price tag and it wouldn't start paying off for over a decade. Nintendo is a publicly traded company too, so Disney wouldn't be buying the company, they would be buying majority shares.

I think partnerships would be more beneficial.

Nintendo doesn't need anyone buying them out. PoLOLygon Article DEBUNKED

Plus Disney doesn't give two ****s about video games. They pawned off Star Wars to freaking EA of all places and they have yet to make a single MCU game! (Disney would solely be in it for the Mario BRAND and not the games.)

McDonald's is much bigger anyway...

well now I wouldn't say that.

If you keep up with the comic book side of marvel, you see what a mess if being made of the comics because of the various holdings of the film rights. I think 10 years from now what Disney has done will be looked at as scandalous from comic book fans, and given a big "eh" by most that are not.

They also killed Marvel cartoons. I never followed Earth's Mightiest Heroes or Wolverine and the X-men, but I heard they were quite good. But I do know that Ultimate Spider-man and all the new Disney-Marvel cartoons are complete trash. Disney just wants to use them to sell toys and promote their movies.

They are also responsible for Battlefront being an FPS, and for numerous cancelled Star Wars games.

Not a fan of the inhuman push and the Avengers being right no matter if cylcops was right.

EMH was on the level of Justice League Unlimited.

They also got rid of the star wars EU, but since I didn't keep up with it, I'm pretty good.

Really though, to toss my opinion in the pot- I'm all for it.

Not only would it mean even better Wreck It Ralph films/spinoffs but Disney has done a great job with Star Wars (As far as recent comics/books/rebels go) and Marvel.

No because The Spectacular Spiderman series didn't receive anymore seasons/episodes. It was soooooo gooooooooooood. : (((((((...

Given that the movie side of Disney looked pretty dead before they brought Pixar I don't put much weight in this theory. Lets be real here, the six or so years pre-Pixar they made Dinosaur, The Emporor's New Groove, Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear, Chicken Little. Wow, all those memorable movies. After they pick up Pixar they make Bolt, The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Wreck-it-Ralph and Frozen. Pixar was always great, Disney acquiring Pixar was more about getting Disney back on track than it was fixing up Pixar. John Lasseter is the Miyamoto of animated movies, he's a modern day Walt Disney, that's why they got Pixar.

In terms of Nintendo it doesn't seem like a particularly good match and the theories about how Disney would leverage them are pretty weak. When Disney brought Pixar they brought talent, creative direction as well as a lot of IP that works in the medium they've built a reputation in. When they brought Star Wars the benefit is obvious, they go out and make some more movies. Nintendo have some great IP but they have IP which won't translate well to film because their protagonists famously have no voice. Furthermore Nintendo's talent would be of little value to Disney, you don't take game developers and electrical engineers and expect them to be experts at making feature films.

And the biggest thing against this whole theory. What's in it for Nintendo? What would they gain out of it? The ability to create games with some of Disney's IP? Some of Disney and Pixar's movie making resources? I don't think that's really something they need or want. If you think Nintendo would be better off with Disney IP rather than their own, how well is Smash Bros doing? What are the best selling games of the last ten years or so? I think Nintendo's IP is pretty valuable, Nintendo don't need Disney's characters.

I would love another Starwars 64 game