More Eye Raising Quotes From Iwata

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pokoko said:

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Mystro-Sama said:
How the fuck can you post a loss after releasing pokemon? WWWWTTTTTFFFFF!?

yeah its crazy

People do realize the pokemon company is a seperate company?

how seperate? how much influence does Ninty have over Pokemon, if any? im asing cause i really dont know how it works i always thought it was another Ninty property like Mario or Zelda

They have there own profits as a company. I'm sure they make 10-20% profit from games but pokemon has been making lots of money. You find reports of them making profits every year. Nintendo doesn't include them in there worker list. That means the pokemon company pays for everything and gets most of the money. They made more money than last just on toys,cards, tv, and games than nintendo. It's been said Nintendo has no influence on Pokemon at all. That's probably why do a lot of things nintendo doesn't.

No.  Nintendo owns Pokemon.  It belongs to them completely, as do all the licensing rights.  Nintendo also owns controlling interest in Media Create, the company that develops Pokemon for Nintendo.  It would depend upon the terms of the contract, of course, but it's most likely that Nintendo receives the vast majority of the profit from the games.

I'm guessing fox didn't read this? Media create is a sales firm and I don't know what this has to do with anything.

The only thing nintendo does with them is make them exclusive. I pointed they make 10-20% profit off there games because they licensed. It's very much like intelligent systems. They own the properties but not the company itself.