Huh, it's Nintendo, @MarioBrickLayer .... Watch them try to make ALL the Mario games on Switch tie into the movie! "You've seen the film, now here's the games ......"
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Honestly I noticed something weird, I loaded up Mario Party Superstars today and the Daily Challenge stars weren't reset despite it doing so in previous weeks.
@NintendoByNature The problem is every day Nintendo wakes up, it's the same day being forced to repeat forever. Unless Nintendo can break this cycle, all future Directs are cancelled.
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@NintendoByNature The only way to break the cycle is to understand how to have a modern fully functional online system in line with competition. I fear we maybe here for many decades.
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With the new Mario movie coming at the end of the year, I am wondering whether Nintendo will release a game to coincide with its launch.
I doubt it. We didn't get a new Detective Pikachu game (or a port of the 3DS game to Switch) when that released, and same of the Sonic movie. Nintendo's brands already have a strong presence on Switch and there are plenty of Mario/Pokémon games to go around without making a game specifically to promote the movie, but timing a new Mario game to coincide with the movie certainly wouldn't hurt either.
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@X-Slayer Every day someone says a direct is coming, they move it back a week, like the people on the island in Persona 5 S, who move the calendar back a day so no one visits a hidden research lab.
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@Silly_G Both Pokémon and Sonic have been cross media franchises with TV shows and correlating games. Not franchises I would say having nothing to with watching something and then playing a game of the same name or theme. If Nintendo can have kids watch a movie and then see the game and buy a Switch to play it, they’ll do it. Having Mario Odyssey as the latest Mario to be marketed with when a new movie is out seems like poor planning regardless of it still being on store shelves to buy just in case you were waiting for a movie to do so
@NinChocolate : Considering that Nintendo is still marketing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (soon to be an 8 year old game) and that it continues to dominate the charts in key markets, I don't think Nintendo have anything to worry about as, unlike the likes of say, Ubisoft or Activision, Nintendo doesn't treat their games as being no longer "current" merely because it's been out for a number of months or years and this is reflected in sales figures (though some franchises are less successful in this respect than others). Hell, I see more more TV commercials for years-old Switch games than I do newer ones (Ring Fit Adventure in particular is heavily advertised).
Would it be smart to launch a new game alongside the movie? Sure. But I think such a movie is more of an effort to lure lapsed or non-fans to picking up a Switch rather than drawing existing customers.
There'll definitely be a new Mario game out around the time the movie releases that'll probably benefit from it, but only because there is always a Mario (or related) game released during the autumn/holidays, like SMO (2017), Super Mario Party (2018), Luigi's Mansion 3 (2019), Mario Kart Live Home Circuit (2020), & Mario Party Superstars (2021) before it.
@Silly_G Nintendo can market past standalone games but they are very adept at cross media as many such franchises grace their consoles at least in Japan. A movie that expands their brand is one such opportunity. Doubtless there will be merchandise, toys, apparel, etc. If they are scheduling new games at the same time as releasing a movie, why wouldn’t they have those things talking to each other?
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@Grumblevolcano There’s no big games from Nintendo themselves in February is there? I feel like now Pokemon is out the way and with quarterly financials coming in real soon, it’s a good time to do a Direct.
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