Nintendo towards expansion in the film industry

Tatsumi Kimishima, Nintendo's new president, hinted that the big N could soon arrive in the world of cinema. It is already in talks with several film production studies with the aim of making films on franchises such as Mario Kart and Zelda. He revealed to the Japanese newspaper Asahi.

Nintendo hopes in this way to make it even more popular his characters and to expand its player base globally. At present, however, there are no projects confirmed in an official capacity, nor is it known what will be the characters involved.

What is certain is that Nintendo is trying to differentiate their business, ahead of the crucial debut of its new console, NX, already described as a project that differs appreciably from the past, and it will not be easy successor 3DS or Wii U. With Miitomo has already entered in the furniture sector, while NBCUniversal has signed an agreement for the development of attractions for theme parks.

Nintendo already maintains several partnerships with for the realization of feature third-party studies for the cinema, for example, films about Pokemon. In 1993, however, came the infamous film of Super Mario, regarded as one of the major failures of that period.

During the Tokyo International Film Festival of 2014 the creator of Super Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, showed a short film in 3D graphics dedicated to Pikmin. Recently reiterated Nintendo's intentions to enter the world of cinema with an interview with Fortune.