Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
11 Apr 2023 Acquired Nintendo: The Console Wars
“I think nothing has ever come out about this, but either, Disney would have had to decide, we don't want to be that in the video games business.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 11 Apr 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo: The Console Wars
Transcript context
…It's unimaginable that he wasn't. They bought Pixar, they bought Lucasfilm, they bought Marvel. In 2012, the year that Lucasfilm was purchased, Nintendo was only worth $12 billion. Assuming that that happened, how did that meeting play out? I think nothing has ever come out about this, but either, Disney would have had to decide, we don't want to be that in the video games business. They bought Playdom. They do have games. I think they make billions of dollars from mobile games, but maybe they decided, that IP is not the type of IP that we were buying. We think that movie IP is more repurposable into our flywheel than games IP. I don't think that's the case. No, because it would be perfect.…
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