Disney Looking to Muscle Into Videogame Industry

Andy Chalk

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Disney Looking to Muscle Into Videogame Industry


Disney [http://disney.go.com/]CEO Bob Iger has said his company plans on utilizing its strategies and strengths in other media in an attempt to establish itself as a major player in the videogame industry.

Iger said the company will employ a "multi-platform" strategy for its videogame efforts, developing games based on properties already successful in other formats, similar to the approach it uses for popular soundtrack releases such as Hannah Montana [http://psc.disney.go.com/disneychannel/originalmovies/highschoolmusical/]. Referring to videogames as "another promising creative engine for Disney," he told investors last week, "We intend to use (a multi-platform approach) to do exactly what we did in the music business to our videogames business, but on a much larger scale."

Disney is projected to spend $175 million on videogame development in 2008, and some reports say the company could hit up to $350 million in spending within five years. The company said on Friday that Chronicles of Narnia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_Musical:_Sing_It!] movie franchise.

"We are a publishing company on the outside of the videogames business," Iger said. "But where (other companies) may not have a cable channel, or a movie company, or even a record business, or a radio business, or online - we have all of those. We intend to use them fully."


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Bongo Bill

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Well, I was rather hoping that the relatively creative types at Disney would be staring up a studio to impart their unique - and not, despite what some would tell you, quite yet stale - charm and diligence to the games medium, like a sort of latter-day Lucasarts. But I guess this just means they'll be increasing the budget for farming out licensed titles to sell to parents who don't know better.
 

Gasaraki

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hahaha.
Andy Chalk said:
Disney Looking to Muscle Into Videogame Industry

CEO Bob Iger has said his company plans on utilizing its strategies and strengths in other media in an attempt to establish itself as a major player in the videogame industry.

The company said on Friday that High School Musical: Sing It, inspired by the popular Disney Channel movies, had already shipped two million units. Next year, the company will be spinning off games from its popular Hannah Montana property, as well as the Chronicles of Narnia movie franchise.
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translation : "we intend to make more money by releasing a bunch of shitty games based on our crappy franchises for clueless grandparents to buy for their grandchildren"


really disney? that's like taking advantage of the retarded kid in your class.
 

Kiefer13

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Oh, excellent. More crappy tie-in games to saturate the market that will no doubt somehow inexplicably still sell well enough for them to turn them into franchises that they'll milk for the next ten years. Wonderful.

Edit: Eurgh, my bad. never noticed the date on this thing, just saw it in the "Recent Posts" bit.