Earlier this year, it was announced that Nintendo would be acquiring the visual production company 'Dynamo Pictures, Inc.' and subsequently rename it 'Nintendo Pictures'. Well, it looks like the acquisition has now been finalised and Nintendo has launched an official website for its new branch.
As previously stated, Nintendo Pictures will be focusing on "producing visual content for Nintendo IP", though what exactly this will entail is up in the air at the moment. On the website itself, Nintendo has left a short message which sort of gives a bit more detail, but it's honestly all a bit vague.
Here's the message itself, loosely translated via Google Translate:
"Nintendo Pictures Co., Ltd. is a video production company wholly owned by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
We aim to have consumers around the world learn about Nintendo characters through video, and to create unique videos that will remain in their memories forever.
To that end, each and every one of our employees will always think about what our customers around the world will find interesting, and we will work hard to create an organisation that can continue to grow by engaging in video production with interest.
We will continue to challenge ourselves to continue providing unique and surprising images to customers around the world, transcending generations and eras."
Bold words from Nintendo Pictures there! We'll certainly be keeping an eye on what this new branch comes out with in the future, but we wish everyone there the very best of luck.
What do you hope to see from Nintendo Pictures in the future? Short videos? Full length movies? Let us know in the comments below!
[source nintendo-pictures.co.jp, via twitter.com]
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The quality of the Pikmin Short Movies was actually surprisingly good imo, excited to see how they could improve future games.
Coincidentally, I have recently been asked to stop providing unique and surprising images. Honestly, it's one rule for etc.
It certainly is a bit vague. I’m hoping by video content, they mean movies and series, not the scatty bits and pieces they put on that 3DS video app from back in the day. I also wonder what this means for Nintendo’s presence of platforms like YouTube. Would they move all their content there to their wholly owned site?
Zelda TV Series CONFIRMED!!!
Yeah right.....
On their website, they mention motion capturing as one of their two general tasks. Maybe Big N realised that games like TLoU are also an intersting option for them.
I'm adopting a wait-and-see approach on this.
Hopefully they'll surprise us with quality content.
Broken link for that website apparently... no special prize for me
Zelda anime let's goooooooooooooooo!
@Mario_maniac Apologies, it's fixed now!
It's worth noting that one of the new Nintendo directors for Nintendo Pictures is Yoshiaki Koizumi, who is a senior executive officer and deputy general manager at Nintendo EPD (as well as one of the lead producers for the Switch platform and all the 3D Mario games).
This is clearly a very big deal for Nintendo.
Just don't move away from games Ninty. Remember what got you where you are.
its easy to dog on the concept of illumination making a mario movie, but it really is exciting to see nintendo potentially jump into more films
“Nintendo pictures”
NFT project?
Nintendo pictures? And there is also a motion picture coming up... hmmm. Might the Super Mario Movie be one of those?
@Ironcore My first idea as well... "NOOO... oh. Okay."
@Max_the_German
I'm pretty sure Nintendo already does motion capture for some of their games, particularly with the Zelda games.
I can't say I'm too interested in this venture of theirs. Tell me a story through gameplay, TV and movies are too passive for me to enjoy.
@reporterdavid Mario movie is by Illumination, Mario movie is been working by Illumination since 2018.
@Max_the_German Nintendo does motion capture for some of it franchises, Legend of Zelda use motion capture since Ocarina of Time.
Time for the Nintendo Cinematic Universe, NCU!
I want a Fire Emblem anime but regardless I hope Nintendo really expands more into anime’s and movies in the near future.
@Giancarlothomaz yeah, well maybe some part of the movie has been done by this company. Few company's can work on a film though.
pls xenoblade, zelda and fire emblem animes
It will be interesting to see what Nintendo comes up with.
Chris Pratt voicing Kirby next?
Sounds too vague right now to read into it. They might have a hand in feature films, animated shorts, ads, or just better cutscenes in games. I don’t know about feature-length considering Nintendo already has Illumination for “bigger” movies. We’ll just have to see.
I miss when they made the Nintendo TV stuff on 3DS with the little shorts and animations. I can't exactly remember what the application was called but it was fun
basically all their franchises could work as a series. how many as movies, especially live action who knows. Imagine a Nintendo app competing with the other streamers.
@Dev9417 I think some people are just hoping they'll be producing feature films out of a distaste for Illumination.
@Shambo I would buy them tbh. I wish the nintendo online service profile icons were nft’d. They possibly are on the back end.
@Giancarlothomaz I am not a pro in this regard, but when I watched the (btw phenomenal) „Grounded“ documentary, I thought that Naughty Dog probably used a more sophisticated and expensive method than devs would usally use for their games. But please tell me the real circumstances.
@Max_the_German Nintendo wanted to use motion capture starting on Ocarina of Time, because they wanted Link to feel very real, it seens they motion captured some dancers for the fighting in Ocarina of Time.
@Giancarlothomaz Oh yeah, the dancing Redeads in Majora‘s Mask. eDIT: Redeads, not Gibdos
Sounds good, will this mean nintendo are starting a tv station. Hope so. I mean if you looking story mode in fzero GX. ( I know it was sega )
Zelda movie when doh...?
Could it be possible they make Miitopia: The Movie?
That's cool with me.
@Orpheus79V that's probably true for some folk. I may or may not fall into your assessment.
Maybe they can turn Xenoblade into a miniseries so that I have time for it.
@Max_the_German exactly
The only problem with Nintendo characters turning into movies or TV shows is that a lot of them either don’t talk, don’t speak a real language, or don’t speak often
Hotel Mario Remastered with Newly animated sections hopefully!
I wish a new 2D Mario game launches with this movie. 😎 Im dreaming I know.
Is this a sort of in-game app?
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