Det kan se ut til at Nintendo skal åpne for at deres verdenskjente figurer skal få dukke opp i filmformat. Dette etter at de ikke engang har lyttet til tilbud etter fadesen med Super Mario Bros-filmen fra 1993. Shigeru Miyamoto og avdelingen Software Planning & Development ser nå på saken, og Miyamoto sa følgende i et nylig intervju med Fortune
"we've had, over the years, a number of people who have come to us and said 'Why don't we make a movie together—or we make a movie and you make a game and we'll release them at the same time?' Because games and movies seem like similar mediums, people's natural expectation is we want to take our games and turn them into movies. ... I've always felt video games, being an interactive medium, and movies, being a passive medium, mean the two are quite different."
I et skriv til investorene sa Nintendo dessuten formelt dette:
"For Nintendo IP, a more active approach will be taken in areas outside the video game business, including visual content production and character merchandising."
Miyamoto sier også til Fortune at Nintendo er åpen for dialog:
"As we look more broadly at what is Nintendo's role as an entertainment company, we're starting to think more and more about how movies can fit in with that—and we'll potentially be looking at things like movies in the future."