Disney Tsum Tsum Festival Receiving A Themed Switch Bundle In Japan

You know those Mickey Mouse Joy-Cons will be scalped to heck and back

Polkadot Purple and Pink Joy Cons ??

Lol, the home button has Mickey ears on it.

Very cute! Hopefully they can confirm it's the new revision so it's worth importing

Those joy-cons are gonna be a thing. That dock isn’t doing it for me though, that’s the best they could do?

Disney flexing their financial muscle. I hope Nintendo doesn't get too friendly with them, or they may be Disney's next acquisition.

Not sure which would be worse, Disney or Tencent. Both are dangerous companies I'd rather Nintendo stay away from.

Considering how big Disney Magical World was for Bandai-Namco this makes sense.

Not my style but I’m still annoyed Japan gets all the cool limited edition consoles

@Heavyarms55 The WDC doesn’t seem at all interested in making, producing, directing video games. Iger seems to be almost proud of their ineptness with making video games in the past and is quite content to license them to whoever gives them the biggest buck.

Of course Disney’s biggest mistake was giving EA, of all companies, the exclusive rights to make Star Wars games, and I don’t need to recap why that was such a bad thing (even at the time of the deal).

Any games that were made at Disney Interactive that were good, was in spite of the management who thought of video games as toys and now Disney hands it’s valuable IPs to whoever gives the biggest bid, seemingly indiscriminately, because they’re really still quite apathetic about these new fanged video game thing-a-ma-jigs.

@Supadav03 yeah, I really don’t get all The region exclusive limited edition stuff. The Japanese exclusive consoles, the region exclusive steelbook editions, etc etc. They’re kind of a hot company across the globe right now, they should be making this stuff available to everyone without the need to import while they are having such a good moment. They came into the Switch era in a defensive, austere position after the whooping they took with the Wii U, but damn... they’ve been kind of killing it for a couple years now, loosen up, sell us some junk for cripes sake.

its not very Disney-ish

@Galarian_Lassie Disney wouldn't have to make the games, they'd just buy the company and tell it what to do. They'd buy EA if they could. You think Disney wouldn't jump at the chance to get characters like Mario, Pikachu and Kirby? They'd jump at it like a hungry lion on a fat gazelle.

@HeavyArms55 I think if Disney really wanted to they would’ve already bought a video game company, it’s not like they’re strapped for cash and from what I can tell, most of the major video game publishers (including Nintendo) are worth far less than that certain movie studio that they acquired.

I think Disney hasn’t bought any video game companies, because their scared of an ESPN situation. The video game industry is a risky one, one day you can launch a Wii, the next a Wii U that will cause you to bleed (in cash).

interesting choice of characters to represent, they got room to work with but i get the choice to keep it simple. it's weird to have a special edition... console isn't the right word since it's just the dock and joy cons for something like a mobile game but you couldn't tell without the name

That shade of pink is nice. I like me a good coral!

Keep danglin’ that carrot why dontcha, Nintendo. I bet you purposely said, “you know what would really get people’s blood boiling? THIS.”

I think that design is really cool. And I want it. But it ain’t happenin’. And that’s okay.

@PBandSmelly No, they aren't, they are a corporation. Corporations aren't good or evil, they are amoral machines designed to do exactly one thing, make money. If the corporation determines that it would be more profitable to do something than to not to do it, they do it. That's the only thing considered.

If Disney decides having Nintendo is more profitable than working with Nintendo, they will take over. Like they have with several other companies already over the last few years. Disney has has a fairly consistent business plan of buying up studios and companies they can make use of.

@Galarian_Lassie Disney wouldn't just be buying a studio if they took over Nintendo, they'd be buying all of the IP rights. Names like Mario, Pikachu, Legend of Zelda, etc are all worth billions of dollars. They'd handle it like they handled LucasArts most likely. They buy the company, gut it down to a shell and license out those IP rights. Most likely a Disney acquisition of Nintendo would mean the end of dedicated Nintendo hardware.

@AlexOlney This is Disney we are talking about. They are a company that has an operating income yearly measured around the 15 billion dollar mark. If they wanted to, they could make it happen. Like I already said, if they determine it would be profitable, they will do it and they already have a history of doing that with other companies.

I think anyone underestimating Disney would be in for a rude awakening.

It looks absolutely magical.

@PBandSmelly Every company is soulless, but the bigger they are the more evident that becomes. Smaller companies can be more easily controlled by individuals, and individuals have souls, they care about things in addition to profit. But when you get to the size of something like Disney, no one has enough influence anymore. It's just a machine and if one of the parts of the machine (the workers or even executives) is holding it back, it replaces that part. Even Nintendo falls prey to this sometimes, making cold calculated decisions that are only to their benefit. Look at how hard they crack down on fan projects.

I am not trying to "look" anything. Nor am I thinking negatively. I'm being realistic. If you want to live in a fantasy where companies don't behave exactly as I describe, go right ahead, but that's not how the world works.

I'm all for Disney going all in with the Switch. That means a Kingdom Hearts 3 port is likely to happen

@AlexOlney Disney just bought a certain film studio for more than 2X that cost. (Though I’m not going to argue that sweet, sweet Fox back catalogue is of much more value for their streaming service, than some company who makes money in a field that they’ve never excelled at).

I’m predicting if Disney buys any AAA video game company (once Iger leaves) it’ll be Ubisoft, but I could be totally be wrong on that.

@AlexOlney Don't forget that Nintendo wants to prevent a takeover of their company. Why do you think Nintendo chose illumination to make the Mario movie and Universal Resort for an addition to their theme park, instead of going with Disney and Disney World for an addition to their theme park?

@patbacknitro18 I think Square Enix will eventually port most of the KH games to Switch (and Xbox One), but I don’t think KH3 can run on Switch, it runs somewhat poorly on more powerful consoles.

@patbacknitro18 You know, those are really good points. It's true, it's not like Nintendo isn't aware of the risk of a take over and have shown a desire to remain independent.

@Galarian_Lassie Everytime someone says, "Oh this game could never run on the Switch" they always get proven wrong. People underestimate the Switchs power. I mean don't get me wrong, it's not as powerful as the Xbone/PS4, but that doesn't mean that its impossible for modern games to run on it. It will just take some downgrades in other areas, but even then that is a very small price to play for a portable version of KH3. It's also important that whoever is porting the games actually puts in the time and effort to do so. The Witcher 3 is coming to Switch with the full game and DLC on the cartridge. Even if downgraded, that is still a ton of content to fit onto a Switch cartridge.

@Heavyarms55 True, also remember how Disney was hyping up the Mario cameo in Wreck it Ralph 2? They were even playing Mario Kart themed music at their resorts to promote the movie. And guess what? Wreck-it Ralph 2 released and had no Nintendo cameos at all, even Bowser was cut out of the villain group at the end despite being in 1. No one talks about it, but I wonder what happened there?

@patbacknitro18 Nintendo probably realized what might have happened. Disney gets their hooks in too deep and sooner or later you have a new boss.

@Heavyarms55 That is what i'm thinking. We all know Disney would kill to own Nintendo. Mario alone is such an iconic character that he rivals Mickey Mouse in popularity. With how Disney has been claiming companies left and right in recent years, its no wonder why Nintendo has backed off a bit from them.

@patbacknitro18 #29 I’m 100% sure that you could KH3 to run in some fashion, the problem is that it isn’t really optimized well on base PS4 or XBOX One (KH3 on XBOX One runs at 720p with an unsteady 25-50ps, Witcher 3 runs at the same resolution on Switch). And Square Enix doesn’t seem interested in bringing their modern, high budget games to Switch as of right now. But, never say never!

#30 I want to clear some things up, Rich Moore (who was a director for both films) mentioned he was interested (and I believe at one point promised) Mario being in the second film shortly after the first movie was released and then seemingly stopped talking about it sometime in spring 2013.
(EDIT) Full Quote “Some of the stuff was that we don’t have rights to certain characters, because we’re working in a world of other people’s media. It’s like, that would have been really funny if we could have Mario [from Nintendo’s Super Mario games] in here doing this part, but it doesn’t end up working out because of that, and it’s fine and the story doesn’t actually end up needing it. But as individual bits, it’s like “That’s a great ‘Saturday Night Live’ bit!” Rich [Moore] and Phil [Johnston, the movie’s co-directors] are pretty much full of those things so it’s an endless amount of great ideas, honestly.”
Also about the Mario Kart music, Disney has a music license that allows them to pretty much play whatever the **** they want at the parks. They’ve been doing this since the early days, they used to play Chitty Chitty Bang Bang music outside the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland park as part of the loop. And they still play Harry Potter and Jurassic Park music at Hollywood Studios especially after hours.
Here’s an explanation for the licensing system (For those who don’t want to listen to the political part 1:08-1:40)
https://youtu.be/B8gHdct_his

@Heavyarms55
Agreed Disney is very agressieve in there marketing and stuff, dont get too close.

I still have no idea what this is. What is a Tsum Tsum? It sounds like something created by a board of directors, so they can sell merchandise to kids who don’t know any better.

Will it drift?

@AlexOlney Disney could buy Nintendo in a heartbeat. Really.

The only reason they don't is they don't want to. Disney thinks gaming is not up to their business and past Disney games haven't been that profitable compared to other AAA titles. This why they license their games to big AAA publishers like EA or even Nintendo.

@Galarian_Lassie Ubisoft is privately owned and they have French law to protect them against a hostile takeover. (For instance they were able to stop Vivendi from buying the company). Nintendo also has similar protections, though.

I’m not a huge fan of the pattern on the dock and joy-cons, but I LOVE the purple and pink combination! The right controller seems to be the same shade of pink as the one in the Splatoon set; I might just have to buy the purple/orange set in October to get this same colour combination on my Switch!

@sanderev yes japan has anti-takeover laws that help prevent it but they also have lifetime employees on their boards that helps keep loyalty in the company.

So while their business modle might be based on ours for the framework it still largely differs in actual practice businesses are more cut throat here than in japan, however im not sure if this would protect Nintendo of North America, while the main facility may remain intact they may still try to take over whats essentially a sister or shell company.

I certainly don't need any more Joy-Con, but I love these!

Garrrghhh... stop doing this to me!

@Galarian_Lassie Of course Disney don't care. Between them and EA they've managed to destroy the Star Wars franchise. F×$^ them both as far as I'm concerned. It says everything when the prequel films are now considered actually pretty good when held up against the recent politically motivated s***shows that Disney have shat out.......and of course EA being EA puts the icing on top of the cake of c**p. In case it wasn't obvious I'm not fan of either 😁

I seem to be the only one who actually cares about the new Switch variant and not the "big evil corporation" that's gonna buy Nintendo tomorrow. Anyway the Joy Cons look nice and I wish I could buy then on their own.

@patbacknitro18 @Galarian_Lassie Sony's likely to blame for the KH situation, the remasters aren't even on XB1 and that did get KH3. That said, just like Final Fantasy (7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, 12) I'm pretty sure if the remasters come to XB1 they'll come to Switch the same day.

@Galarian_Lassie Yeah, Square Enix isn't known for good quality ports.

The recent Final Fantasy ports on Switch weren't too bad apparently but I've heard that there are some issues (e.g. some sound/music issues in FF X).

But some of their PC ports are just bad. Nier Automata had several issues and never got a single patch. FF VI had sprites that looked worse than the original on SNES etc.

I doubt they would be able to make KH3 run well on Switch.

It's too bad it's getting bundled with a meh-looking game, this actually looks really good

Has the US gotten any region specific Switch colors/crap? This is ridiculous!

Just give me purple joy cons.

The problem with special edition consoles is I always look at them and think, "That's cool... To bad I already own the console." Although if you're listening Nintendo, you make a sequel to Devil's Third and a matching special edition console, I'll buy a second Switch.