Nintendo Acquires Visual Production Company Dynamo Pictures, to be Renamed Nintendo Pictures - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 July 2022 / 2,874 Views
Nintendo announced it is acquiring visual production company Dynamo Pictures.
The gaming giant has entered an agreement to acquire 100 percent of Dynamo Pictures' outstanding shares in a deal that is expected to close on October 3, 2022.
Once the deal closes, Dynamo Pictures will be renamed to Nintendo Pictures and "focus on development of visual content utilizing Nintendo IP."
The total amount of the deal was not disclosed, however, Nintendo said "the acquisition will have only a minor effect on Nintendo's results for this fiscal year."
Dynamo Pictures was founded in 2011 and has worked on visual production for games, movies, television, and VR content for theme parks, according to the company's website. They worked on the CG for Final Fantasy XIII-2, and has provided motion capture on multiple games.
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Finally we will get the Earthbound movie right?
Yes, but only after the Duck Hunt trilogy.
And the Ring Fit trilogy.
Nah, we need a movie based on NES Pinball.
Question: so during GameExplain's announcement of this news they showed footage from the cutscenes in Metroid: Other M as an example of Dynamo Pictures previous work. I was always under the impression that that was handled by D-Rockets. Anyone have any info on this? Did D-Rockets become Dynamo Pictures?
Either way, those cutscenes were amazing. Absolutely the best part of that game.
You are absolutely correct about D- Rockets doing the Other M cutscenes, Dynamo Pictures where involved in some post production work, but you know you what it's like companies spin things to help ensure that what ever they are buying or selling is seen in the best possible light.
Amazing news
I don't know if I'm the only one, but I'm really glad that Nintendo spends more money on buying movie/CGI/Advertising studios than on videogame studios.
It's true that some Nintendo first or second parties need technical support, but no matter what, Nintendo always makes very good games.
I'm much more concerned about the "NCU". To create a good cinematic universe they will need a lot of control over the movies. They need a good production company of their own, and not to rely on Universal, Netflix or others.
I don't think Nintendo needs to buy Platinum, or part of Platinum. Their partnership is more than solid.
I'd rather Nintendo invest in what it doesn't really have, like film studios and more workers for its current teams. The "studio buying" war seems stupid to me if the studio doesn't need it.
The name and purpose is a little unmatched for me. I would expect it to put series/movies of Nintendo IPs but their experience is creating CGI for games? Not exactly the same thing.
But if they can make good media output of Nintendo IPs that is good.
They've also made movies, commercials, dramas, and cg anime.
That should have been included on the news. But thanks for the info.
They've made the Pikmin shorts.
They need to buy a couple game studios.
If they could acquire Digital Frontier as well, that would be a huge win.
This is exactly the kind of acquisition I was hoping for Nintendo. Their next console will need a significant increase in terms of graphics and I'm not sure if their current studios are able to handle that.
Yikes. Hope you're wrong
I wonder if this means Nintendo's games will have much better in-game cinematics???
