Hachi
Happy Valentines Day!
Monsters inc? Incredibles? Tangled was very good. I almost felt guilty having enjoyed it what with me being an 18 year old...
I'm sorry, but Pixar movies don't really count. That's like crediting Nintendo for the Donkey Kong Country series when all the magic came from Rare's (And now Retro Stuidos) own talent. The characters might be legally owned by them, sure, but everything great about them really can't be credited to Nintendo's game designers because well... they didn't make the game. Pixar almost broke ties with Disney awhile back because of the terrible business practices they where trying to force on them. Thankfully Disney's tune has changed a -lot- over the past few years and is now being run by somebody competent. Still though, their contemporary attempts seem completely eclipsed by what Pixar (and even Dreamworks) is doing. And now Pixar is ramping up production for a planned 2-movies a year release schedule, and setting the bar even higher for themselves. I thought Tangled was great and it's a good step in the right direction, but at the end of the day it's one movie. The Animation Studio at Disney is going to need to work a lot harder if they want to compete with Pixar, even if it is a company they own.
Anyways, as for my own opinion, I agree that Nintendo is most certainly the Disney of Video Gaming. That comes with it's own goods and bads though- I do think Nintendo makes some strange decisions at times because of bad habits in the industry they may have picked up over the years. (See: NINTENDO SELLING RARE. What were they thinking!? Also see: Screwing Sony over... yeah. We all know how that turned out.) However, unlike Disney most of that is internal and doesn't actually affect the quality of the product being released in most cases. Nintendo is always innovating in both hardware and software, which is something I think any gamer can appreciate. They are also the trendsetters, never the followers. Along with the quality in both visuals and game mechanics, I think that's a major reason why their games tend to be thought of as timeless classics almost the second they are released.
So even though I agree they are parallel to each other in their respective industry, Nintendo is actually the better company in my eyes. C:
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