Nintendo Reveals "Positive Impact" The Mario Movie Had On Mario's Game Sales

So even announcing a Zelda movie should bring enough hype to drive sales of a WWHD/TPHD release, right?? I'll die on this hill.

But to the Mario point, this is fantastic. I wouldn't say it's driven me to purchase more than I would have already, but I'm certainly finding more enjoyment in Mario again. To see such an impact on sales though means good things for future projects. Good things all around!

yeah, this totally makes sense. there's no better time for nintendo to invest in making mario games, and they obviously know this.

Mama Mia that's a lot of money coming in!
As a Super Mario All Stars Commercial said you're play,eat,sleep Mario. It's the Capital of Ohio Mario!
P.S. Don't know why they chose Ohio. 😉

If about five years back you told me we would get a live action zelda movie, I would want to cast it into the fire. However after the Mario movie and the sonic movie and whatnot, I’m actually pretty optimistic about it lol.

Question : Did the Mario movie encourage you to buy and play more Mario games?

Me : No.
Despite I have interest with some Mario games, but I still have bigger interest on 3rd party games especially the underrated games.
I personally still rarely to play my Mario games even the rare games like TTYD.
I like the Mario movie, I watched it for 4 times, but it doesn't mean it will make me get excited with more Mario games as I still have low hype with Mario franchise.

The same has happened elsewhere as well with other media forms helping game sales, going forward we will see a lot more TV shows, Anime and Movies based off games the same year of that games release.

Nintendo is definitely transitioning as a business to have movies, themes parks, and other extensions of the brand play a much bigger part in their business. Games will always be the top focus but it’ll definitely be a more varied company in product releases. Also nice to see Miyamoto kinda being the guy helping to run all these non-game projects.

Random question as this is mostly a UK housed site, do British people not use the word billion? Cool if not but, 1,361.25 million just looked odd to my American eyes. Anyways just curious and trying to learn, have an awesome day.

@rvcolem1 it looked on odd way to write it to me and I'm from the UK, we most definitely use the word billion over here. The original meaning of a billion was one million million but we've used the short scale one thousand million as its meaning for quite some time

@carlos82 thanks cool, it is all semantics I'm just a curious sort. Have a great night, well I guess morning for you. Haha

That thumbnail has been the greatest gift to games journalism

Not to mention the merchandise sales!

I for one look forward to an endless line of mediocre movies and tv shows.

Well of course It was very clear to see that the Mario Movie was one giant advert for all Mario games! 💪🤓 Bravo Nintendo, bravo

Been a while since they used this image for a headline huh.

@rvcolem1 in some countries, Billions= one million millions.... not a thousand millions.

I wonder if now would be a good time to start smaller projects like tv shows or if the value is in a large project like a movie. Defo feels like Nintendo may be positioning itself to making a slow march to a market saturation similar to Disney. Should be interesting to see the focus over the next 20 years.

Gonna guess that most people who post on this site probably already had most of the Mario games…..

I own every mainline Mario game including all RPG type games. Only thing i don't have is the sports and Party ones. I'll keep on buying them too!

I once got teased when i bought my copy of Mario Galaxy at a walmart in my 20's and i was like yeah whatever dude. Keep playing your call of doody you big dumb jock.

Mario puts a smile on my face and i don't care how old i get I'll keep playing the games.

It makes me wish that we got a Mario collection kind of like those castleVania/contra/etc ones.

Basically an M2 collection covering the 2d Mario games such as 1-3, world, lost levels, land 1 and 2, also including different versions of the games such as the GBA and all stars versions and without any of that "limited digital" nonesense that 3d all stars had.

its really just a case of unrealistic wishful thinking though but given how many great retro collections weve had on switch its a pity we didnt get much in the way of nintendo ones outside of something like 3d all stars and even that was removed from the eshop mere months later.

Mario RPG remake is looking fantastic though.

I rarely see films at the cinema twice, but the Mario movie was a joy to watch multiple times at the cinema.

The bar is set very high for the next film though.

Is a fun and Great movie !

Maybe this is why Nintendo said that they wanted to focus on their brand marketing venturing into other markets. Seems to me that everything is going according to plan.