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Nintendo is exploring ways to keep its worlds alive not just through new video games, but by expanding its intellectual property into every medium that can hum, glow and now spin at 33\u2153 RPM.<\/p>\n
The 136-year-old entertainment firm is issuing its first release of a video game soundtrack outside of its native Japan with vinyl sets of the music in \u201cThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a>,\u201d the groundbreaking adventure game that\u2019s sold more than 34 million copies since its 2017 release. The announcement arrives one year after the launch of Nintendo Music, a smartphone streaming app for music from Nintendo games with some bespoke features.<\/p>\n The expansion is another signal that Nintendo, along with its competitors Sony and Microsoft, is looking to expand its multimedia business beyond the games<\/a> themselves, as the video game market becomes more saturated and is prompting companies to look for new sources of revenue.<\/p>\n In past years, Nintendo would release CDs in the U.S. through promotional events or packaged with a game, like the soundtrack to the 2011 Zelda game \u201cSkyward Sword<\/a>.\u201d Wednesday\u2019s announcement marks the company dipping its toe in global distribution of its music.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Japan, they\u2019ve got a pretty established soundtrack business that\u2019s mostly CD-based. Japan remains still very physical media based when it comes to music,\u201d Bill Trinen, Nintendo of America\u2019s vice president of player and product experience, said in an interview. (It\u2019s not just music: Japan has the highest-circulation print newspapers in the world, according to Press Gazette<\/a>, a journalism trade publication.)<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s still a good ecosystem of stores selling physical soundtracks and music,\u201d Trinen said. \u201cThere\u2019s just a much broader recognition of video game music in Japan. As we\u2019re looking at Nintendo and our intellectual property, one of the things we\u2019ve really started to zero in on is there\u2019s a lot more opportunity around music and we\u2019ve got a broad music library.\u201d<\/p>\n Through a partnership with Laced Records and releasing June 19 next year, the \u201cBreath of the Wild\u201d soundtrack will have multiple versions, revolving around two- and eight-LP record sets. The larger set, selling at $195, will segment its 130 tracks by mood and themes. The game\u2019s calmer exploration music will stay on one record, with bombastic battle tracks relegated to another. The two-record set, at $50, will have a curated 34 tracks, like a greatest hits package.<\/p>\n Most video game publishers release music on Spotify and similar platforms. Nintendo, ever inclined to produce their own technology and content, opted out, instead pushing their online subscribers to the Nintendo Music app. The app features music across the company\u2019s history, from the archetypal video game bops of Mario games to classic and niche portable titles like \u201cNintendogs.\u201d<\/p>\n While Nintendo won\u2019t share user metrics, Trinen said the app, developed by a \u201csmall team,\u201d has seen steady growth in use over the year.<\/p>\n Part of the reason Nintendo opted out of using popular streaming services is that the company wanted to let users stretch playtime from five minutes up to an hour to re-create the dynamic, looping nature of video game music, alongside custom playlists. (The app even lets users block out spoilers from songs. Users can opt out of accidentally hearing, for example, the final battle track of a Zelda game.)<\/p>\n \u201cWith game music, it\u2019s designed in a way to be interactive and for the music to be flexible and responds to the player\u2019s own gameplay, so you have a lot of little interludes and bridges connecting pieces of music together,\u201d Trinen said. \u201cWe want people to experience the music, but we also want people to still be connected back to the gameplay experience.\u201d<\/p>\n Centering and selling the game experience is a philosophy held across the company\u2019s various multimedia efforts, including the recently opened theme park Super Nintendo World in Orlando<\/a>, the billion-dollar box-office \u201cSuper Mario Bros.\u201d movie and the upcoming live-action Zelda movie.<\/p>\n Probably the biggest question for every Nintendo Music user: Where is the soundtrack for Mario Kart World<\/a>? It\u2019s the top-selling Switch 2 game (before the arrival of the recent Pok\u00e9mon game<\/a>), and boasts a popular soundtrack with live musicians covering Mario music over the decades.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t go into too much detail, but I can say that it does actually take time and work to prepare soundtracks for Nintendo Music,\u201d Trinen said laughing. The game has more than 200 tracks. \u201cAnd that soundtrack is particularly robust. It\u2019s a matter of looking at the calendar and saying whether something might fit in or not. We\u2019ve certainly heard that people are eager to see that on Nintendo Music.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nintendo is exploring ways to keep its worlds alive not just through new video games, but by expanding its intellectual property into every medium that can hum, glow and now spin at 33\u2153 RPM. 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