
broadcast rights holder – in summer 2021. According to Hypebeast, new footage of the Super Nintendo World theme park in. Another wave of virus cases in Japan could also derail plans to hold the delayed 2020 Olympic Games – for which NBC is the lead U.S. Credit: Courtesy of Universal Studios Japan Nintendo fans, get ready to put this theme park on your bucket list. It is the first of four attractions in Japan, Singapore, Orlando and Hollywood. Universal Studios Japan has finally launched the Nintendo-themed expansion after delaying it in response to COVID-19. Cinemas in Japan are now operating near normal, but a recent spike in cases threatens to reverse that trend. Universal Studios Japan has officially launched its Super Nintendo World land, with the opening ceremony attended by Shigeru Miyamoto. Japan has weathered the coronavirus relatively well compared with North America and Europe. The conglomerate is understood to have halted plans for another Nintendo area at its Orlando, Florida theme park, but is in advanced construction for a major new park near Beijing China that is also scheduled to open in 2021.
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It took full control of Universal Studios Japan in 2017. For Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal the park extension may be seen as a test, and a further pivot of its theme park businesses towards Asia. Nintendo is understood to view the park as diversification away from its core games businesses. Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan, which officially opened in March of 2021, brings a highly themed and immersive land featuring Nintendo’s worlds, characters and adventures to the real world, where guests can play inside the world of Super Mario. A February opening spells cold weather, but the park is anyway currently operating at only 50% capacity due to social distancing measures.


The coronavirus outbreak delayed the opening of the park extension from last summer.
