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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 2:53:31 Ben Gilbert I mean, there's Harry Potter, there's the Nintendo universe.
- ▶ 3:08:15 Ben Gilbert And I think Nintendo owned the Mariners at this point.
- ▶ 4:16:54 David Rosenthal And then the other one, the opposite of the spectrum is Nintendo.
- ▶ 4:16:57 David Rosenthal Man, Nintendo has fallen on hard times.
- ▶ 4:16:59 David Rosenthal Do you know what Nintendo's market cap is right now?
- ▶ 4:17:07 David Rosenthal Yeah, I mean, you could pick up Nintendo for less than the cost of Fox now.
- ▶ 4:17:12 David Rosenthal Now, I, I don't know that Nintendo would ever sell.
- ▶ 4:17:22 David Rosenthal I mean, it is a travesty, frankly, that Disney let Nintendo go to Universal.
- ▶ 4:17:29 David Rosenthal Nintendo is like Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm combined.
- ▶ 4:18:09 David Rosenthal With the bigger Disney canvas, Nintendo physical experiences could be so much more.
- ▶ 4:27:04 David Rosenthal So we were in New York recently for the event that we did with Sierra, and, uh, I brought the family, and my older daughter was super excited to go to the Nintendo store in Rockefeller Center in New York because she thought that there in…
- ▶ 4:27:27 David Rosenthal As far as I can tell, Nintendo does not make first party Princess Peach costumes.
- ▶ 4:27:31 David Rosenthal This is why Disney needs to acquire Nintendo, because the fruit is just laying there, right, hanging off the trees.
- ▶ 4:27:45 David Rosenthal I don't care if it's Disney or Nintendo or Universal or whoever, just make some Princess Peach costumes for my almost five-year-old.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:16:31 David Rosenthal Nintendo.
- ▶ 4:16:34 David Rosenthal They do this.
- ▶ 4:16:37 David Rosenthal Which is so great because Nintendo and Disney, Nintendo started on the back of Disney, right?
- ▶ 4:16:43 David Rosenthal As we talked about on our Nintendo episodes.
- ▶ 4:16:45 David Rosenthal It was the Disney license for the playing cards in Japan that kicked off modern Nintendo.
- ▶ 4:16:51 David Rosenthal But yes, they have this exact same ethos and flywheel.
- ▶ 4:17:03 David Rosenthal Right, and Nintendo is partnered with Universal now for their perks.
- ▶ 4:17:06 David Rosenthal I kind of suspect the way that a relationship between Disney and Nintendo, the only way it could work would be if one of them buys the other.
- ▶ 4:21:25 David Rosenthal I think that entire passage could equally apply to Nintendo.
- ▶ 4:30:00 Ben Gilbert If you like this episode, go check out our recent episodes on Vanguard, Ferrari, and Coca-Cola, and Back in the Archives, our two-part series on Nintendo.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:22:53 David Rosenthal Nintendo finally got
- ▶ 4:22:55 David Rosenthal The picture that like, hey, girls are a growth audience for them.
- ▶ 4:23:31 David Rosenthal Uh, so highly recommend to anyone with little kids and a Nintendo switch, go get Princess Peach Showtime, especially if you have a young daughter, might be their gateway into video games.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:08 David Rosenthal Yeah, um, Nintendo.
- ▶ 1:38:10 David Rosenthal We thought Nintendo was gonna be a big, such a great, it's an incredible history, incredible story, incredible company, N of one company,
- ▶ 1:39:04 Ben Gilbert Nintendo, it's like one of the most interesting companies ever.
- ▶ 1:39:30 David Rosenthal Yeah, this is amazing, amazing story, and that they, they have this, uh, philosophy called lateral thinking with withered technology, which is, uh, if you look at Nintendo systems, you can go way, way, way back.
- ▶ 1:41:52 David Rosenthal Both Nintendo and IPL
- ▶ 1:42:05 David Rosenthal Nintendo was specifically listened to by one person on the meta executive team who found it, thought it was amazing, sent it to the entire meta executive team, right?
- ▶ 1:42:31 Ben Gilbert And so without the Nintendo episode.
- ▶ 1:42:33 David Rosenthal Without the Nintendo episode, Mark Zuckerberg doesn't join us at Chase Center.
- ▶ 2:35:44 David Rosenthal And then two, Kirby, uh, and the Forgotten Land on the Switch is like perfect.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:49:36 David Rosenthal To her Switch.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:22:38 David Rosenthal We got a Switch.
- ▶ 3:22:45 David Rosenthal and I got her a switch.
- ▶ 3:22:47 David Rosenthal We did an original switch.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:00:33 Ben Gilbert You also got a switch.
- ▶ 4:02:08 David Rosenthal So I think I might actually pretty soon, her birthday's coming up, end up getting a Switch so that we can play, you know, together on the Switch.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:05:15 David Rosenthal So, I will buy a Switch, too.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:36:01 David Rosenthal I have a reservation for a shopping appointment at the Nintendo store in San Francisco, the new Nintendo store here in San Francisco.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:51:21 David Rosenthal Basically everything on our Nintendo episodes that we've hoped Nintendo would do with the successor system to the Switch, they're doing.
- ▶ 3:51:21 David Rosenthal Basically everything on our Nintendo episodes that we've hoped Nintendo would do with the successor system to the Switch, they're doing.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:21:12 David Rosenthal Hey, guys, I love the Nintendo episodes.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 22:09 David Rosenthal Building the graphics workstations that Hollywood ran on and did Jurassic Park and all that, was they were Nintendo's technology partner for the N-sixty-four.
- ▶ 22:09 David Rosenthal Building the graphics workstations that Hollywood ran on and did Jurassic Park and all that, was they were Nintendo's technology partner for the N-sixty-four.
- ▶ 22:20 David Rosenthal They made the graphics engine for the N-sixty-four.
- ▶ 22:23 David Rosenthal And so, Jim, as this relationship with the Nintendo, the N-sixty-four is gonna be coming out, it's gonna be this amazing box in the living room attached to TVs and consumers' homes.
- ▶ 22:23 David Rosenthal And so, Jim, as this relationship with the Nintendo, the N-sixty-four is gonna be coming out, it's gonna be this amazing box in the living room attached to TVs and consumers' homes.
- ▶ 22:34 David Rosenthal They're gonna team up with Nintendo and turn the N-sixty-four
- ▶ 22:34 David Rosenthal They're gonna team up with Nintendo and turn the N-sixty-four
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:22:09 Ben Gilbert If you are new to the show and looking for great recent episodes that we've done, I highly recommend the Visa one as discussed earlier in sort of the Network of Networks idea if you haven't heard that, or perhaps the Nintendo or Nvidia…
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:17 Ben Gilbert Bill starts installing arcade cabinets, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, everything we talked about on our Atari and Nintendo episodes.
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 16:14 David Rosenthal Nintendo, Lockheed, Porsche, Nike, Costco, Nvidia part three, and then Visa.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- ▶ 52:00 David Rosenthal Compete with Nintendo and Sega as like with PCs?
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:25:00 David Rosenthal To me, it looks like the planes in the first Star Fox game for the Super Nintendo, when Nintendo and other sixteen-bit game developers during that generation were trying to make three-D games with sixteen-bit hardware, and you didn't have…
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- ▶ 28:42 David Rosenthal We did two and a half episodes on Nintendo, two on Nintendo, one on Sega, and we had a blast and people who love video games had a blast.
- ▶ 53:52 David Rosenthal It's like we were talking about on the Nintendo episode.
- ▶ 54:04 David Rosenthal You need to also have the luck of being, be in the Venn diagram of a Shigeru Miyamoto who happened to be the arcade cabinet designer at Nintendo in order for like the possibility of Mario and Zelda to happen.
- ▶ 54:34 Daniel Ek Um, he's on, on our board and, um, this was a number of months ago, but like, if you think about filmmaking, it's still, as you said, uh, one of the things about a Nintendo is you have to have the resources enabled to build a game and…
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:21 Ben Gilbert After our deep dives into Nintendo and Sega, we wanted to do something special to cap off our gaming extravaganza.
- ▶ 7:42 Mitch Lasky and there was a part of it where you were in your Nintendo episode that kind of reminded me of the LVMH episode as well,
- ▶ 7:47 Mitch Lasky because those of us who had worked as competitors to Nintendo in the console business, and I did for a part of my career when I was running the studios at Activision,
- ▶ 7:56 Mitch Lasky Um, they had this-
- ▶ 7:57 David Rosenthal It's interesting you considered yourself a competitor to Nintendo.
- ▶ 8:02 Mitch Lasky You know, there's, there's limited shelf space in Best Buy, and so for, they were very much a competitor for that shelf space, and so on the software side in particular, and they would, for example, if they had a new Metroid SKU or a new…
- ▶ 8:30 Mitch Lasky And then two weeks before Christmas or a week before Christmas, they would suddenly flood the shelves with all of the inventory that was available.
- ▶ 8:38 Mitch Lasky And so everybody was back to the stores and they, and it was just, it was genius, but it's something that only they could do because they had that sort of luxury good kind of vibe.
- ▶ 13:42 Mitch Lasky Obviously, Nintendo had brought the console business back in, in 85, but we were really only five, seven years into that, right?
- ▶ 19:52 Mitch Lasky And you look at the Nintendo portfolio, which you guys have done a really good job of exploring.
- ▶ 27:28 Mitch Lasky Who has the most market power of any company, and maybe apart from Nintendo and Sony,
- ▶ 28:40 Mitch Lasky Well, I mean, I think the next one to go is going to be Nintendo, right?
- ▶ 28:43 Mitch Lasky I think they're, I think that's, if you're looking for a reason to invest in Nintendo as a, as a company, it's, it's, I think they're about to crack that nut, right?
- ▶ 35:05 David Rosenthal It's like a Nintendo version of a platform based publisher.
- ▶ 35:26 Ben Gilbert This is the bull case on the Switch that we've been talking about, which is like, at some point, Nintendo has to wake up, and I assume it will be with the Switch line, and say, wait a minute, we shouldn't come out with a completely new…
- ▶ 35:26 Ben Gilbert This is the bull case on the Switch that we've been talking about, which is like, at some point, Nintendo has to wake up, and I assume it will be with the Switch line, and say, wait a minute, we shouldn't come out with a completely new…
- ▶ 35:41 Ben Gilbert We should iterate the Switch and make it super backwards compatible, and bring that hundred million plus person install base with us across all the hardware we release in the future,
- ▶ 35:51 Ben Gilbert So that we can make this incredibly, um, compelling thing to third-party developers, Mitch, as you're talking about their sort of app store opportunity, but also preserve this ridiculously durable first-party revenue thing that we've had,…
- ▶ 35:51 Ben Gilbert So that we can make this incredibly, um, compelling thing to third-party developers, Mitch, as you're talking about their sort of app store opportunity, but also preserve this ridiculously durable first-party revenue thing that we've had,…
- ▶ 36:11 Mitch Lasky I think we will learn a lot about what their strategy is gonna look like for the next decade in the next, like, 90 days.
- ▶ 36:18 Mitch Lasky Because I think if they do come to market with a non-backwards compatible device, it's back to the Iwata era, right?
- ▶ 36:35 Mitch Lasky If they come out with a fully backward compatible switch, and an open app store, and they really try and improve that position of third party revenue on an active user basis,
- ▶ 36:35 Mitch Lasky If they come out with a fully backward compatible switch, and an open app store, and they really try and improve that position of third party revenue on an active user basis,
- ▶ 36:46 Mitch Lasky That's the new Nintendo, right?
- ▶ 36:47 Mitch Lasky That's the Nintendo that's going to play in the modern industry.
- ▶ 36:57 David Rosenthal The Switch is by far the best platform to play that on, and like, I just, I've sat there for years, like, staring at my Switch, being like, Nintendo, why do you not embrace this dynamic?
- ▶ 36:57 David Rosenthal The Switch is by far the best platform to play that on, and like, I just, I've sat there for years, like, staring at my Switch, being like, Nintendo, why do you not embrace this dynamic?
- ▶ 37:07 Blake Robbins I think it's, you can see publicly in the way that they're going with Microsoft against Sony, that
- ▶ 37:17 Blake Robbins Both everything we can tell of how they're siding with Microsoft and open embracing openness gives a clue of maybe how this works.
- ▶ 37:25 David Rosenthal Yeah, you mentioned that a little bit on the series, on the Gamecraft series of Nintendo siding with Microsoft.
- ▶ 38:14 Mitch Lasky Now, there have been a lot of interesting developments, and you guys explore the story of Nintendo.
- ▶ 38:34 David Rosenthal Well, I feel like Nintendo had the,
- ▶ 39:38 Blake Robbins And I think the, I think the, we, we really end that episode to, to bring this full circle around cross-platform, which is sort of the latest evolution of where the console business has been, where you had Microsoft and actually Nintendo…
- ▶ 40:02 Blake Robbins If you had an Xbox, you couldn't play with your friend who had a PlayStation or a Switch, and really Nintendo and Microsoft went to war against Sony.
- ▶ 40:02 Blake Robbins If you had an Xbox, you couldn't play with your friend who had a PlayStation or a Switch, and really Nintendo and Microsoft went to war against Sony.
- ▶ 40:32 Ben Gilbert Well, uh, you want to play with your friends, so we're going to use that as the carrot stick, whatever you want to call it, to get you to buy our console, which we actually don't make money on, to get you to buy our games, which we do make…
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