It definitely seems like Miyamoto is eager to expand Nintendo's IPs outside of just video games. I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing more Nintendo movies and shows in the following years. I would love another crack at a Zelda show or some sort of external Metroid media.
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@Eagly Just as long as they don't start neglecting the video games side of things. We're already getting less games due to Nintendo only having 1 system this generation, we don't need them halving production of games a second time to focus on movies...
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There's a relatively well known counter-intuitive software engineering/project management observation called Brook's Law which I think applies here. Basically the broad idea is that the more people you add to a project the longer it takes to complete. The general gist of it being that the more people you add to complicated projects the more time you have your project bottlenecks "wasting" time training and communicating
However you CAN increase productivity overall by having multiple teams working on different projects. Especially if those projects are entirely separate from each other. So like @Eagly said here, making a movie is an entirely different project, it would be an entirely separate team with skills that wouldn't align. And equally there's a reason why they have multiple games on the go at once
I don't know the internals of Nintendo but in terms of what's documented they have ~6500 staff and six main internal studios. EPD, PTD, NBD, NST, NTD and NERD. Not all of them make games. NERD does some of the novel tech research for stuff like Mario Kart Live & Ring Fit Adventure. NST is their NA studio and has done mostly port work and support for minor titles. NPD does hardware and NTD does OS/Hardware/Accessory development. Which leaves NBD which does mobile stuff and EPD which is their main software dev studio (then multiple other studios and subsidiaries)
Wouldn't take much at all for them to "spin up" an animation studio and I don't think it would impact at all any of the workings going on in any of those other studios. Well, with the exception of potentially wanting to have some story/lore elements bleed between the different media. Also Miyamoto, the man himself, he's almost 70 and is in a creative director/managerial role. I'm sure he will be able to be across multiple things to the extent that he still is, I doubt he's a productivity bottleneck
Possibly, but I think Nintendo as a whole wants to make their brand more than just games. I would like to see a Zelda movie assuming it is a new take on a story and not just making ocarina of time the movie.
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It's odd so many people are viewing Miyamoto being hands on as a good sign now. People having been blaming him for years now on how the Paper Mario series become less story oriented and it's notorious that many movies become rubbish from meddling producers who don't understand how movies work.
Miyamoto is the main man behind the theme parks and movies. He was the main man behind the transition to a video game company and is currently the main man to evolve Nintendo into an entertainment company. This is a win-win situation for Nintendo. Miyamoto knows best how Nintendo wants to be seen and therefore he is the best person to help Nintendo expand. On the other side, the new generation of game designers have more freedom because Miyamoto nowadays is just an adviser.
@blindsquarel Would love to see diff styles! Claymation for Pikmin worked very well! Hell, make a stop motion Yarn Yoshi!
@Garage I credit mostly Gunpei Yokoi. The Game & Watch, Color TV-Game, and GB changed the company forever. Miyamoto's games boosted the popularity of Nintendo which influenced gaming forever, while using Yokoi's philosophy to continue as a video game company.
@Snatcher Well Nintendo did start off by selling rice, ramen, toys, love hotels, and taxi services right? They still make those playing cards to this day too! The portable robot Wario vacuum was ahead of its time lol.
The Direct revealed that negotiations about the movie started over 7 years ago so it seems a lot of the branching out we're seeing nowadays is a result of the Wii U's failure. Looking back at earlier Nintendo Life articles, the theme parks were also a Wii U era decision (the announcement was in 2015).
The other Wii U era branching out moves we've already seen (Mini consoles, mobile) though with the gigantic success of the Switch, Nintendo have moved away from those.
I think a lot of the future will depend upon the Switch's successor, it's unlikely to do as well as the Switch (the only transition that went from insanely huge sales to even bigger sales was PS1 -> PS2 and even then, PS2 was pretty much just a cheap DVD player for many people) but hopefully it still does well.
@Vivianeat Gunpei Yokoi helped a lot and Nintendo was already approaching the video game market before Shigeru Miyamoto started working for them, however, Nintendo wasn't very successful in the video game market before Miyamoto got permission to take over his first project. The whole video game market had huge problems. Everything changed as soon as Miyamoto and Co. sold Donkey Kong and the journey went on with Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, etc.
I mean if we're talking about the history of Nintendo and Miyamoto's key role in it it's worth noting that a lot of the key people at Nintendo who were around from the start have passed. Also at 69 he's well and truly past what most people would consider retirement age. Not that I'm saying he's going to kick the bucket or is completely useless but it's still something to consider
I'm sure his word still has a LOT of weight behind it, as it should. Even so any sensible company would have long since structured itself so it could work without him. The way I see Miyamoto functioning at Nintendo I think of him as being one of the many QAs for "Nintendo-ness" at Nintendo. And well, QA doesn't speed up productivity, it just shapes the "acceptable quality" of what comes out
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I mean if we're talking about the history of Nintendo and Miyamoto's key role in it it's worth noting that a lot of the key people at Nintendo who were around from the start have passed. Also at 69 he's well and truly past what most people would consider retirement age. Not that I'm saying he's going to kick the bucket or is completely useless but it's still something to consider
I'm sure his word still has a LOT of weight behind it, as it should. Even so any sensible company would have long since structured itself so it could work without him. The way I see Miyamoto functioning at Nintendo I think of him as being one of the many QAs for "Nintendo-ness" at Nintendo. And well, QA doesn't speed up productivity, it just shapes the "acceptable quality" of what comes out
I second this opinion, but honestly God only knows what Miyamoto will do/what will happen.
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