How Nintendo Music Potentially Outlines the Future of Media
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How Nintendo Music Potentially Outlines the Future of Media
Mario Odyssey and Zelda: Breath of the Wild were built by internal studios within the company, each with its own creative directors and game designers. Imagine having hundreds of people Flintstoning to launch a new network—that’s what happens in the world of new consoles. The strategy worked,
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Nintendo continues to find success—last year, during the pandemic, Animal Crossing broke Nintendo’s first-year sales record with 31 million copies sold. Today, Nintendo is the 3rd-largest gaming company in the world, behind Sony and Tencent, with $12 billion in revenue.
Rex Woodbury • Digital Economies, Gaming, and IP Legos
More fundamentally, though, for both music and books, most of the arguments and questions are music industry questions and book industry questions, not tech or software questions. Spotify is suing Apple over the App Store commission rules, but otherwise, all the Spotify questions are music questions. Why don’t artists make more from streaming? Ask ... See more
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He understood that physical distribution was going away, that digital license strategies needed to change. He shared his view back then that Pandora should be incentivized to build a subscription business, Spotify to enter the radio space, new entrants to have an advantage in the beginning, and much more international access to digital content. The... See more