Nintendo published its 86th shareholder meeting Q&A. Beyond the stock-price headlines: Miyamoto says IP runs at nearly 100% profit versus 30% console margins, the DS/3DS backward-compatibility dodge, game-preservation friction, My Number ID checks for Pokemon cards, and the India and China playbooks.
A new Crank-in! interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri reveals the inside story of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: how Miyamoto personally lobbied Nintendo's internal teams to break the company's long-standing rule against mixing IPs to put Fox McCloud in the film, Glen Powell's passionate cold call begging to voice Fox, similar approaches from Brie Larson and Donald Glover, and why the Japanese version's script was rewritten from scratch rather than localized.