| Ka-pi96 said: Again... no sources at all. GameFreak being owned by Nintendo is wrong. They are an independent company. Creatures probably are owned by Nintendo. But you saying it doesn't make it true, actually give a source maybe? |
I didn't say they were owned; majority shares (to which I cannot find my old source, so that may have been bad data way back when) would not mean they are wholly owned, just controlled. But, now that I've gone and checked, let's say we remove GameFreak. Monolith Soft is an example of this when Nintendo bought out majority to control the content, but Bamco still had influence and interest in the studio until they were bought out and the comapny became Nintendo owned.
Nintendo still owns majority of Pokemon as it still owns its own subsidiary, Creatures/APE, with whom and GameFreak, they share the Pokemon Company and the whole of the IP. No one part of the IP can do anything without the other part of the IP; Nintendo owns the brand, GameFreak owns the brand, Creatures owns the brand, and any action with regards to the brand has to be consented upon by all three (really two).
