DK Rumor, Game Builder Garage, No Detective Pikachu 2? | NINTENDO NEWS ROUNDUP



It’s the week’s biggest Nintendo news stories and the Arlopinions that accompany them! In this edition: a juicy new DK rumor is making the rounds; Nintendo gives us the deets on all the financial happenings from the last fiscal year; the guy who founded Illumination Entertainment is probably joining Nintendo’s board of directors; scalpers are now after cereal; an ex-Retro dev doesn’t seem to think Metroid Prime Trilogy on Switch is likely; and like a whole bunch of other stories too but I won’t spoil them all here.

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New DK?
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/rumour_the_next_donkey_kong_is_being_developed_by_the_super_mario_odyssey_team

Game Builder Garage
https://youtu.be/0yM3ppz0Zt8

Year sales
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/animal_crossing_was_the_best_selling_switch_game_this_year_unsurprisingly

$880 million on R&D, Almost $800 million on marketing
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1390214058381565952?s=20

$9.2 billion in the bank, investing
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/nintendos_ready_for_acquisitions_when_the_time_is_right

Chris Meledandri joins board
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/illumination_founder_chris_meledandri_set_to_join_nintendo_board

Universal Display Corp investor call mentions Switch Pro
https://twitter.com/SpawnWaveMedia/status/1391553858501967878?s=20

Pokemon cards in cereal
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/great_now_pokemon_card_scalpers_are_ruining_cereal_too

Pokemon Master Journeys: The Series this summer
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/pokemon_master_journeys_the_series_will_arrive_this_summer

No Detective Pikachu 2?
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/detective_pikachu_star_doesnt_seem_to_think_a_second_movie_will_happen

Scorbunny Build-a-Bear
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/scorbunny_is_joining_the_pokemon_build-a-bear_collection

ORAS failure
https://youtu.be/bbbzxm7p1Pk

Michael Wikan on Metroid Prime ports
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/metroid_prime_trilogy_switch_port_unlikely_says_former_retro_studios_dev

Epic wanted Nintendo exclusives
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/epic_apparently_wanted_first-party_exclusives_from_nintendo_microsoft_and_sony_on_its_digital_storefront1

Microsoft on Nintendo’s 2020
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/xbox_thought_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_2_bayonetta_3_and_metroid_prime_4_would_come_out_in_2020

No Yakuka at Nintendo
https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1389281643798704132?s=20

Bandai Namco Baten Kaitos trademarks
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/bandai_namco_just_registered_trademarks_for_the_gamecube_exclusive_series_baten_kaitos

New Mario character renders
https://twitter.com/SMWikiOfficial/status/1390654742108327938?s=20

Aaaand Waluigi
https://twitter.com/JonComms/status/1390804180353290245?s=20

PowerA Waluigi controller
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/waluigi_is_getting_his_very_own_powera_enhanced_wireless_controller_for_switch

Elon Wario
https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1391250244839510019?s=20

BotW barrels
https://twitter.com/bgDzNY5zKPNFETJ/status/1390317888771268608?s=20

Louie Zong Pokemon art
https://twitter.com/everydaylouie/status/1389792678385131523?s=20

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46 thoughts on “DK Rumor, Game Builder Garage, No Detective Pikachu 2? | NINTENDO NEWS ROUNDUP”

  1. All corporations' boards of directors are made up of "outside directors." This is not even remotely a new concept. Boards of directors are never staff or individual decision makers for companies. They are advisors, they vote on some management (i.e. when a there's a vacancy in the CEO/president position), and direction/budget/policy issues as needed or required by the company's by-laws. Most corporate boards of directors are comprised of people from outside the specific industry/business that the corporation is part of IN ORDER TO provide perspectives from other businesses. So, Nintendo doing this is not unusual in the slightest, and it only make more sense because they have a pre-existing working relationship with this animation studio. They've said very publicly they will be doing more film-related projects with their IPs, so having a film company on their board to help provide that perspective year-round is something very logical that they should want and have.

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  2. Detective Pikachu was more about celebrating the games than the Sonic Movie, but in terms of an actual story, Sonic is undoubtedly superior. That's why it broke the videogame movie curse, it broke the game so it could be a good movie, they are different mediums, it worked.

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  3. I hope digital sales dont increase by that much in the future.
    I try to buy everything physical simply because the regulations around digital games are rediculous.
    It's bound to your account, so when you lose your account your games are gone.
    You cannot resell or borrow digital games.
    And sometimes you cannot even share a digital game with another account on the same nintendo switch.
    If digital sales get so high that physical copies stop being a thing it'll be a pretty bad thing.

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  4. Nice vedio.everyone needs more than there salary to be financially stable.the best thing to do with your money is to invest it rightly.because money left for saving always end up used with no returns.i started investing in Bitcoin mid November 2020 with the help of a well-known- professional Mr Stephen Duncan and the profit entirely funded my receipt duplex.

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  5. Excuse you Arlo, the Sonic movie wrote it's sequel into the movie. Detective Pikachu did not. There's nothing more to the story I, as a massive Pokemon fan, really want or need to see. It doesn't make sense Pikachu would continue talking after he was resolved. Meanwhile, Sonic's blue lightning is a reference to the missing cyan Chaos Emerald in Sonic Adventure 2, explains why Tails is looking for him with the radar despite "Sonic has no friends", and we get to see the transformation of Dr. Eggman and his creation of orbot and cubot, represented by the stone heads in Mushroom Kingdom. They wrote SO MUCH potential for the sequel it actually hurt me to admit Sonic had a better movie despite how generic the overall plot was because they used the generic story to draw in the general audience but left so many easter eggs in plain sight to passionate fans to keep them excited for more.

    …Also it makes sense Sonic formed core characteristics around his observations around television and media because he talks so much differently from the other Sonic characters that I've always found his demeanor unusual in comparison. They really did a fantastic job if you're thinking more deeply about the movie than the surface level "haha cool blue character go brr", and the fact they're balancing both to try and create their revenue is freaking genius.

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  6. Yeah i do feel like detective pikachu was better than the sonic movie, but of course detective pikachu 2 will never really happen because of how they ended the movie. But i do remember someone from the movie, like a director or producer or something, saying that they would really like to do more pokemon movies in the same universe, just different story of course, becasue, you have all these amazing pokemon CGI models it would be a shame to use them just for the one movie

    And SNL was just bad, Elon is not funny, surprising no one

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  7. The board doesn't control any of the stuff you're concerned about. They aren't involved in day to day operations or individual projects. Outside directors specifically are a check/balance for collusion/corruption within the inside directors of the board.

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  8. Arlo, I love you man, but the Sonic movie had plenty of love for the franchise in it. They clearly did their homework. I had more fun with it than Detective Pikachu and I think the majority would agree.

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  9. Very confused by your take on detective pikachu being authentic to the source material and the sonic movie being this terrible monstrosity…
    90% of detective pikachu is just "oh hey, look at all these pokemon in cool graphics" and the other 10% is something that's very loosely like some of the mewtwo plots in various other pokemon media.
    Yeah, the sonic movie didn't go all in on the source material either, but it was clearly playing it safe for the first movie to get more widespread appeal before going more all in on the lore in sonic 2.

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  10. I'm with you Arlo, I found the 'Detective Pikachu' film to have much heart about it & the music was familiar etc, can't say the same about Sonic's film.. average at best.

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