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David Rosenthal: belief

11 Apr 2023 Acquired Nintendo: The Console Wars

“I'm not the first person to say this, but I suspect this new Mario movie is going to do really well.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
11 Apr 2023
Publisher
Acquired

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…It'd be so perfect. Mario, Zelda, the whole cast. Donkey Kong is first class IP along with those three franchises they bought and the Disney Princess series. Totally. I'm not the first person to say this, but I suspect this new Mario movie is going to do really well. You know what's going to just freaking crush it. When there is a Zelda movie television series or whatever, people are going to go absolutely nuts. We talked about it in part one, but more people like Mario than Zelda, but people who like Zelda get freaking tattoos of Link. They named their daughters Zelda. It's going to be like Lord of the Rings style. One thesis I have is that Japan, as a nation, would never let Nintendo be sold to a foreign buyer.…

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