| OttoniBastos said: Question: who owns Pokemon ip? Gamefreaks? nintendo? both? |
I believe Nintendo owns the majority of Pokemon because Nintendo, Creatures Inc.(also owned by Nintendo), and GameFreak have equal ownership of the Pokemon ip. However, Nintendo has created the Pokemon Company to handle all the merchandising of the Pokemon IP when it isn't video games. But even then, those merchandise are accedited to Nintendo, Creatures Inc, and GameFreak and all three have equal ownership of those merchandise as well.
GameFreak themselves are a second Party developer that primarily works with Nintendo but isn't obligated to only making Nintendo games. But since Nintendo owns the majority of the Pokemon IP, GameFreak usually releases their Pokemon games on Nintendo platforms. Some exceptions include a few Pokemon apps and TCG games for Smart phones but we haven't seen any main RPG Pokemon games appear outside of Nintendo consoles yet.
