Ben Lindbergh

You know, no offense to Master Hand or whatever.

Excuse me, Master Hand is a deep and rich villain.

I mean, great, big bad, great, great culminating enemy adversary for all of our Nintendo characters.

Right.

We have so many Super Smash Brothers games and bring on more by all means.

But would it be so much fun to just watch them?

those characters brawl as opposed to controlling them brawling because these movies do devolve into sort of the third act of the Marvel movie territory where it's just you know people jumping and bashing the other shiny things and you just sort of zone out and your eyes on focus like it's all well done and well choreographed but one battle blends into the next really so it's

You know, the fact that we have Star Fox in a Mario game and we're crossing the streams and it's the Mario multiverse and now there are no limits and any Nintendo character could in theory appear in any other Nintendo property.

And that's intriguing.

But then if the storytelling stays at this level, then how intriguing is that?

really is it other than just, you know, we want to smash our action figures together and see them get smashed together.

I'm with you, but I'd rather play that than watch it.

And to its credit, I don't get the sense that Nintendo is trying to speed run

the franchise building I think that they're just making movies and they're just telling some stories and will that eventually culminate in some kind of crossover event yeah almost certainly if these keep making tons of money but I don't get the sense that it's all in service of that of the almighty dollar

even though it is definitely going to make a lot of dollars.

And it's interesting.

I think, you know, we're all kind of playing general manager, right?

We're just, what's our corporate strategy?

How do we roll this out?

Even as we sort of bemoan that, we all engage in it, that tendency.