Chris Kohler
Culture

Disney Forms Nintendo-Exclusive Studio

Bloomberg reports that Disney — whose video games arm was recently rebranded Buena Vista Games — will be establishing a new studio dedicated exclusively to producing games for Nintendo consoles: The studio, called Fall Line, will be based in Salt Lake City and run by Scott Novis, who led the team that created the game […]

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Bloomberg reports that Disney -- whose video games arm was recently rebranded Buena Vista Games -- will be establishing a new studio dedicated exclusively to producing games for Nintendo consoles:

The studio, called Fall Line, will be based in Salt Lake
City and run by Scott Novis, who led the team that created the game based on the Pixar film "Cars.'' Novis's designers will build games for the Nintendo "Wii'' console to be released this month and the "DS'' and "Game Boy'' handheld players.

BVI, of course, has already made some major investments into Nintendo's portable platform, with an entirely new IP (action-RPG Spectrobes) and a Disney-themed followup to popular puzzler Meteos in the works.

The fact that they're establishing a brand new studio would seem to indicate that original content developed ground-up for Wii and DS is on the way, not just ports of existing products. Makes a lot of sense, seeing as how the Disney and Nintendo audiences overlap. Much as I love the DS' market-expanding features, it's ultimately going to be the system of choice for the little kids, much like the GBA before it.