midrange said:
mountaindewslave said:
Nintendo owns part of Niantic
Pokemon Company also owns part of Niantic I believe, and Nintendo has a 33% direct share of Pok Co. Gamefreak (?) I think it is also has a stake of Pokemon Company and Nintendo AGAIN has a significant stake in that company as well
basically long story short is that Nintendo has a very large stake in the Pokemon Co and most likely also has a large stake in Niantic at this point due to that.
Bear in mind the success of Pokemon GO is arguably mainly due to the fact that it is the first real game to come to mobile that bears the Pokemon brand NOT so much due to the software from Niantic. Its fairly basic at hte moment, and to be far Ingress was not really a big hit.
People just like Pikachu and Charmander and co. its that simple.
It is a big hit for Nintendo.
its a big weird how Nintendo owns significant portions of all of these random smaller companies but when you add up how everything is cut up Nintendo is most likely the majority share owner of them all. Pokemon Co and Gamefreak without a doubt and then Nintendo has some sort of decent stake in Niantic itself
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@bolded: the mention of Ingress wasn't to say that it was popular, it was to show that Niantic already did most of the heavy lifting for pokemon GO. The owner of Niantic shouldn't get ALL of the fame when Niantic did a lot of work.
No Niantic, no Pokemon GO. I'm not trying to debate which of the 2 companies is better, I'm trying to give credit to where it is due
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The fact is that outside of the industry 99% of the people don't know the names of the people who made the games they play every singe day, how many people do you think would answer Yes when asked "Do you know King/Supercell ?" even if they have Candy Crush or Clash Royale downloaded on their phone ? that's, at a smaller extent is the same on consoles, I could bet 7/10 Pokémon fans don't know what GameFreak is even if the logo appears every time you start the game...
