How Nintendo Music Potentially Outlines the Future of Media

Solving the problem of incentivizing creative work that endures: Most media distribution and monetization models incentivize quantity over quality. Newspapers, radio networks, podcasts, magazines, books, movies, and on and on receive the lion’s share of their revenue in a short window after release. It is increasingly hard for any medium to have bl... See more

The old, pre-digital structure of the music business led to a fan relationship funnel with multiple gatekeepers, primarily major record labels.

If you take nothing else away from this article, remember this idea: In a capitalist economy, artificial scarcity creates the conditions for discovering culture’s true market value.

Look at Nintendo, they’ve created their own world with their own characters. Not just like, “Oh, I’ve got to create characters.” No, it’s a culture, it’s a world, it’s a flavor, it’s a brand, it feels unique, something unique and fun, or interesting, and so it is. This is a very big topic to talk about. But I’m trying to distill it down as much as

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