Nintendo is not the sole contributor to Pokemon GO

[midrange]

Luke888 said:

midrange said:

@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

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...

So we should just ignore Niantics work and give all the credit to Nintendo?

Likewise, people are familiar with developers. Who doesn't know about bungie, infinity ward, treyarch, and dice? Saying people don't know about what dev made whatever game is a poor excuse to not give credit to developers