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Miyamoto Wants to Bring Pikmin, Star Fox, and other Nintendo Characters to Anime Video

The creator of Mario and countless other amazing Nintendo franchises would like to take his talents to video content production. Miyamoto-san provided details about the company's plans at the 77th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders today.
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Nintendo’s 77th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders was held today in Kyoto, Japan. The companies board of directors and key personnel were all in attendance to provide an update about the company's progress. During the question and answer section of the meeting, Nintendo President Kimishima and Shigeru Miyamoto addressed the topic of creating video content based on Nintendo's intellectual property.

Shareholder: Regarding product video, are there any plans to bring back past content like Kirby anime on BD, or old games on DD for console/mobile?

Kimishima: We’ll look into investing toward film. We want to increase opportunities for Nintendo IP and guide consumers with hardware = software synergy. Regarding Kirby, we’ll take your valuable opinion into consideration. 

Miyamoto: We hold the Kirby IP and it’s growing in Europe. It’s selling in Spain; watched in places without game hardware. We want to make anime for Pikmin, Star Fox, Yoshi, etc. and distribute it freely, or integrate into games.

No mention of Detective Pikachu, but the company definitely seems poised to enter yet another space with their intellectual property. It remains to be seen how Nintendo fans will consume this new video content, but we have seem other game franchises like Overwatch do a great job of providing content that is enjoyed alongside the game. 

Please check out Nintendo Everything's Details from Nintendo’s 77th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders for some more great coverage. 

Thanks to NintendoEverything.com for the great transcription of the meeting!

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Asif Khan is the CEO, EIC, and majority shareholder of Shacknews. He began his career in video game journalism as a freelancer in 2001 for Tendobox.com. Asif is a CPA and was formerly an investment adviser representative. After much success in his own personal investments, he retired from his day job in financial services and is currently focused on new private investments. His favorite PC game of all time is Duke Nukem 3D, and he is an unapologetic fan of most things Nintendo. Asif first frequented the Shack when it was sCary's Shugashack to find all things Quake. When he is not immersed in investments or gaming he is a purveyor of fine electronic music. Asif also has an irrational love of Cleveland sports.

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