Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "DISNEY BUYS $1.5 BILLION STAKE IN EPIC GAMES"

Episode Date: April 22, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticNotorious Mass Effect - Segment: Disney and Epic Games: A Universe Beyond Fortnite?Prepare for liftoff, dreamers! This segment blasts off into the stratosphere of gaming with Disney and Epic Games' ambitious collaboration!Beyond the Battle Royale: Building a Games & Entertainment Universe We dissect the groundbreaking project – more than just a game, it's a Fortnite-connected "universe" resembling a digital Disney theme park!Welcome to the World of Disney: A Multiverse of Franchises Imagine a digital plaza featuring iconic themes from The Nightmare Before Christmas, Cars, The Avengers, and so much more! Explore virtual Disney cruises, iconic characters, and even catch glimpses of Disney Plus and 20th Century Studios integration.More Than Just Games: Watch, Shop, and Explore This universe transcends traditional gaming, offering experiences beyond the controller. We'll delve into the "watch" and "shop" functionalities, hinting at Disney content viewings and potential merchandise opportunities.The Metaverse Beckons: A Disney-Branded Fiefdom Unpack the implications – is this a corporate-branded metaverse within Fortnite? We'll discuss how Disney and Epic Games are capitalizing on gaming's role as a gateway to the metaverse, offering a theme-park-style entertainment experience within a popular game.A Billion Dollar Partnership: Disney Invests in Epic Games We break down the $1.5 billion investment, signifying a multi-year project. This collaboration builds on existing ties, where Disney utilized Epic's Unreal Engine.The Future of Fandom: Create, Share, and Engage This expansive universe offers a playground for users to play, watch, shop, and interact with beloved characters and stories from across Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and more! Get ready to create your own stories, express your fandom, and share it all within this virtual realm.A Universe in the Making: Disney Embraces the Future We'll explore the significance of Disney's move, recognizing the power of virtual worlds and leveraging Fortnite's massive player base. This collaboration represents a major step forward for Disney's entertainment strategy in a rapidly evolving landscape.Join us as we chart the course for this groundbreaking collaboration! Is this the future of entertainment? Tune in and find out!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Now before we get into the details of the Disney and Epic Games collaboration, of course, we have to start with the teaser trailer, which basically depicts what the future holds as far as this whole new project is concerned. So what we're going to do is, well, for people over at my podcast platform, make sure to go to Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to get the video along with the audio. So basically we're going to watch the trailer. Then I'm going to get into the news about everything breaking down the whole Disney and Epic Games collaboration. But first I want you to see the teaser trailer right here. Once again, analytic dreams video on Spotify for the video along with the audio. So anyways, let's get right into it. Discover a place.

Oh, you got love the narration. We're magic. This seems like such a spoof, but this is actually from the from the actual account like Fortnite it's not a spoof it's like a real thing that they put out and the reason I'm saying it like that is because

this narration makes it seem so much like a parody but it's actually not like this is real life so anyways let's keep going all right hold up you already know what I care about I love how they say Marvel and only show X-Men characters I think at this point in time I mean it's gonna be a side tangent but

too long I think at this point in time Marvel just needs to go the Fox route which is completely focusing on X-Men characters and just forget about the Avengers phase and just basically make the X-Men the new Avengers so that when the overall team-up movie happens then we can reset the universe and then get back into Avengers and X-Men being separate because if you're a comic book reader and this is my last you know take on this is you know last thoughts on it. Marvel never had great stories when it came to combining Avengers and the X-Men. They've always did it well separate. It was like their own universes in itself. So for them to

collab in the comic books, it never really went over too well. Let me just put it like that. So I think that they should obviously focus on X-Men characters, which they technically are doing with Deadpool and X-Men and X-Men, the 90s, the 90s. 1970 series or whatever but anyways that's just my little two cents on that so I think they're going into the right direction completely focusing on X-Men which makes it funny that only X-Men characters are in his trailer oh no my there goes uh Captain America well he doesn't count he's he's always around technically I mean that man never I mean they aged him up but he really could never die honestly and that is the depiction everybody's talking about right here hold it I don't know

how much of a clear look we're going to get. Okay, that was basically it. Let me see. So right here is what everybody's talking about. It even says most replayed in the trailer. I like how YouTube has that feature. Okay. So basically, obviously, you see in the top left, ESPN, Marvel, Lucasfilm, which, you know,

it's the Disney brands. And, I mean, all of this is the Disney brands, but that's just more of the sports division, superheroes, Star Wars. division obviously in the middle I'm not too familiar with all of the I piece I do know next to the centerpiece that's the inside I don't even know how to say it I never watched the movie but the in and out the inside and outside whatever that movie is the popular movie that's the tower for it and basically they're not making like a complete replica of Disney World out of Orlando of course because with video game

technology well with video game imagery you could do way more. So I think it would be just a much more expansive version of Disney World, just obviously for the video game ecosystem. I mean, imagine having a two, I don't want to compare that. Imagine having an open world where you're walking around in a more glorified Disney World, if that makes sense. Like everything you look at is Disney Own and it reminds you of Disney World, but just 10 times better because now it's animated to the point where they can have, oh no, take more liberties when it comes to creativity. So I just think this is a more enhanced version of Disney World that you're going to be

experienced in a video game format. So I think that's pretty cool, honestly. Anyways, let's finish the teaser trailer. And then there goes Disney, you know, flexing all of their brands. You know what I mean? I almost had to look up the definition of Monopoly. You know what I mean? All them brands, look at that.

Hold up. I don't think I realized. Look at all this. Well, Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, Avatar. That's ridiculous. If that ain't a monopoly, I don't know what it is. But anyways, let's go back to the map. That's the biggest thing everybody was looking at. All right. So I'm just going to stop it right there. Actually, I'm just going to let it play and just mute it. That's what we're going to do. So I'm just going to play it from the beginning. All right. So anyways, now that we watch the teaser trailer, let's get into the overall tidbits of the Disney epic games collaboration because obviously it's a big deal i mean if putting 1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in epic games isn't a big deal they don't know what is because a billion dollars is a lot

i don't know if that needs to be said obviously not but for disney it may not seem like a lot because you know they basically print money at this point but they are in a interesting tidbit to where actually Let me go back to this. So you see all these brands right here? Marvel, everybody is saying it's falling off and they put in way too much, well, they have a way too much output to where the fans aren't really messing with any Marvel movies.

Star Wars, they say they completely messed up the next trilogy in the sense that Finn or whatever, the black character was supposed to become a Jedi or whatever, and that really made fans upset when he didn't. I mean, obviously it's way more than that. But Star Wars fans were not a fan of the new trilogy let's just say that and then Pixar i don't really know too much about that i think

Pixar always does well avatar i think the last movie did well so those two brands are doing well so anyways uh but star wars marvel is one of those where definitely could use some help when it comes to um just creativity and trying to find more engaging a more engaging audience because a lot of people are just falling off of keeping up with Marvel and Star Wars simply for the fact that they just believe that Disney is out here just putting out cash grabs under the new IP that they've acquired. So with them putting stake into Epic is more of a collaboration to create a Fortnite connected environment where they've already had a huge track record and making video games using other people's IP and making them more intriguing to.

the masses. I mean, how many times have you heard a little kid referred to a popular character that's been around since the 90s or 80s as a Fortnite character? Like, oh, that's, uh, that's so-and-so from Fortnite or that's so-and-like, basically that's the musician from Fortnite or that's the character, the fighter from Fortnite. Like, no, that's, that's, uh, Goku from, from like years and decades and decades of, of just content and they just are referred to as Fortnite characters now. So for Disney to put a whole stake, well, 1.5 billion up as far as for equity, it makes sense because Fortnite is really taken over the gaming industry and just the masses as a whole. So, of course, this whole collaboration is built to make a world of Disney Plaza, which is basically the digital space that includes themes from franchises like The Nightmare Before Christmas, cars, the Avengers, corporate logos for Disney Plus, uh like ESPN i mean you may see uh stephen a smith walking around that's how crazy this

collab may be and then 20th century studios virtual disney cruise ships and recognizable characters like group are featured so there's a lot of things that you get when you acquire um the license to be creative with disney characters so i'm glad that fortnight received it even though a lot of people are just out there like oh here goes disney ruining another brand i think fortnight is such a a polarizing and a no fortnight is such a staple in the gaming industry in today's age that there's just no way that this collaboration would not work but um obviously there's this room to be skeptical because Disney having huge IPs there's been track record of them messing it up so it's not like a hundred percent surefire hit but i do think that fortnight would be able to take over creatively

enough to make this work if that makes sense so of course they imply that they're going to have a social virtual tourism uh aspect allowing users to hang out with friends and engage in various activities once again going back to the whole disney world for a video game i really like the concept that they are going with as if they make this VR like forget video games for a second Like if they make this VR to where you just walk around the whole entire Disney world as a character and you're experiencing other characters in real life, this could end up being the new, really, Fortnite. I mean, Fortnite's already big in itself, so it's only competing against itself. This could be the new height or the new peak that Fortnite sets for itself as far as standards.

Because the possibilities are endless, which is why a lot of people are skeptical, because, you know, there's also possibilities to mess it up. But let's just try, you know, try to be positive and hope that Epic Games of Disney will figure out this Disney world idea. So anyways, obviously, I'm not going to keep beating a dead horse, but it's going to be a theme park style, all-encompassing entertainment experience. The partnership would be a multi-year project aiming to combine Disney stories with Fortnite's open world and, and, and, terrible.

I can't say that. And ecosystem. What else? That's basically it. I mean, Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar. I'm trying to see anything I missed.

That's basically it. I mean, a lot of people not even talking about this collab, which makes me very, very hesitant to say it's going to be like just the biggest thing since sliced bread. But to me personally, I think this is going to be insanely popular. Like, forget GTA.

hey, I could see this having like a huge decade plus run as far as, because they do say it's multi-year project, but obviously you can have extensions based on performance, right? So I think if they make this Disney World and the way that I think they're going to make it, they could literally make this the biggest game ever. I mean, you see this right here for people over at analytic dreams video. I think this depiction is something to where you're going to be exploring this for the next, 10 to 20 years to come and obviously they're going to keep building upon it because it's just so much rich IP for Disney that you will want to just explore every crevice it's almost like a cyberpunk or a

final fantasy it's like a world in itself with so many characters that it just you want to keep exploring so I don't really see the downside of this and I think there's going to be a big deal when it eventually comes into fruition But obviously at the end of the day, this is just one big investment by Disney in terms to collaborate with Epic Games to hopefully make a groundbreaking entry into the gaming and Metaverse space. So only time will tell if this ends up being a successful investment or not. But one thing I will say is that it would definitely offer Disney fans and not even Disney fans, but video game fans and people. who want to yeah basically video game fans a unique experience and for VR people a virtual experience with their favorite Disney franchises so with that being said click my link tree in

my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about Disney's investment in the epic games 1.5 billion investment into epic games and also at the end of the day do you think that this whole collaboration will end up making this one of the biggest games of all time.