Mario shows up at Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony
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Diprosalic
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DeathSparks
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NBC finally caught up https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/767534380503924737
bearythebear
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The Tokyo opening ceremony is gonna be great.
thecouncil
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Mario is ready.
Maybe the NX is the ball the Prime Minister was holding.
Some people are so negative lol.
Some people are so negative lol.
bobbychalkers
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If that closing was any indication....Tokyo is going to murder their opening ceremony in 2020, holy shit.
If Nintendo characters are going to be the 2020's olypmpics mascots then Nintendo just scored a great gig. Also this is going to be the time around where Universal opens the Mario section of their park in Osaka.
Dude even if NX flops they're about to get themselves in a pool of money.
Dude even if NX flops they're about to get themselves in a pool of money.
I had to bring NX to this conversation, right?
How is getting your mascot on perhaps one of the biggest global stages imaginable "money wasted"? The NX is coming out relatively soon and things like this, Pokemon GO and BotW's internet success are helping to get the Nintendo brand back into people's minds.
Nintendo should probably follow it with the NX reveal event announcement
See you in ten years.
I'm saying I think that the Rio closing ceremony was a waste of money on Nintendo's part. Especially since Nintendo has been heavily criticised for basically operating on radio silence for the past year. I mean, the money spent at Rio could have sent Nintendo to E3 or ensured the production of a dozen Nintendo directs.
Would not be surprised if this was the "Team Japan" marketing squad for pamphlets or some shit. :lol
abercrombie
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This only furthers my personal belief that Mario is loosely based off of Robert De Niro's character in Brazil...or was it Bob Hoskins? Is the Mario movie canon?
James Scott
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That was really cool. Great move from Nintendo since they made Mario look like the official mascot of Japan, lol.
I doubt they paid for this. Do you think that Shueisha paid to have Captain Tsubasa show up?
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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That was amazing
There were no Pokemon
Bookmark this, it's going to be a lot of fun when the thread is necrobumped like the G4 one.
Gamer @ Heart
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Why are people thinking Nintendo paid for this and were not simply asked by the Japanese Olympic committee to use one of the most famous mascots in the world for their presentation?
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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Lol
DeathSparks
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Nintendo's stock price tho.
NOLA_Gaffer
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So when can we expect video that wasn't captured off-screen from a TV of this?
Twenty7KVN
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They missed a great opportunity to announce it during the closing ceremony.Nintendo should probably follow it with the NX reveal event announcement
Jealous that their faves didn't show up.
You can't just advertise products like that in the ceremony lol. "btw pls buy our new system"
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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DID THEY SHOW THE NX!? DID THEY
I'm just saying it's so negative to look at something as cool as Mario in the closing ceremony of the Olympics and think about that.
Yup
spyroflame0487
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NX was the ball he had. NX confirmed for Gamesphere 2.0
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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Videogame as an Olympic sport in Tokyo confirmed?
Sadly no
Smells like sarcasm, but since others seem to think the same....that's not how it works.
Nintendo surely paid, as did Shueisha. The Olympics is less about athletes and more about an elaborate exercise in bribery and co-branding. The International Olympic Committee isn't stupid, they aren't going to give Nintendo a world stage and global coverage for free, money changed hands to make this cameo possible. A pity then Nintendo doesn't have any new products to promote at the moment.