Walt Disney Company is pushing it’s way to the video game industry, but now they have made a rather surprising strategic decision to create a dedicated division in order to produce games for Nintendo Wii. Certainly the childish image of Nintendo fits nicely with Disney, but this budged console that doesn’t really have the next-gen qualities is a certain underdog in the console war - it only has the benefit of being cheap and a solid fan base in Japan. Interesting decision by Disney as one would have expected that the movie and animation studio would have had plenty of ideas how to utilize High Definition video or the capacity of Blu-ray in their video games.

Disney’s video game publishing division, Buena Vista Games Group, announced development of the smaller group, called “Fall Line Studio,” which is tasked with creating Disney-inspired games for Nintendo’s devices.

Based out of Salt Lake City, Fall Line Studio is expected to draw on the iconic Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, for the upcoming titles.

Chosen as vice president and general manager of the new studio is Scott Novis, who helmed the Rainbow Studios teams that developed a video game based on the Disney Pixar animated movie “Cars.”

Source: NewsFactor