Disney has opened a studio with one exclusive purpose. The studio, which is called Fall Line and is based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, has an exclusive purpose in creating games for nothing but Nintendo consoles. The studio is to be run by Scott Novis, who is responsible for the recent game adaptation of the film Cars. The move to create their own development studio occurred when Disney saw that it was spending a lot more than it wished when it was licensing out characters and content to third-party developers. Disney has spent over $200 million in the past two year acquiring or starting up game development studios, a sum that the company is expecting to double over the next two years.
So why go exclusively with Nintendo? Nintendo, apparently, is a natural partner since its users tend to be a bit on the younger side. Combine that with Nintendo's approach of easing everyone into gaming with their console the Wii and Disney and Nintendo appear to be quite the match made in heaven.













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11-07-2006 @ 1:01PM
I make a new name every time I post :D said...
So does this mean a nintendo-_console_-based Kingdom Hearts game sometime in the future?
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11-07-2006 @ 1:23PM
derfreddy.de said...
i actually predicted that.
ever seen that interactive, animated mickey show on disney channel? perfect for wii
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11-07-2006 @ 1:24PM
ninjaluke84 said...
KINGDOM HEARTS!!!!!!!!!!!
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11-07-2006 @ 3:45PM
Cheesy said...
So, does this mean there's a possibility of Kingdom Hearts III coming to Wii? Or maybe even a spin-off with Nintendo characters?
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11-07-2006 @ 8:51PM
Mabui said...
Interesting turn of events.. at 200 million I imagine you could make a pretty darn good game development company. Hopefully they release some real quality titles, not just bombard Wii and DS with loads of useless quick pushes for dollars.
As for Kingdom Hearts III, I have to say that the one thing that always tend to bug me about Kingdom Hearts is the Disney characters.. Especially Donald and Goofy.. must .. fight urge to.. strangle..
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