The Pokémon Company obtained $2.1 Bilion dollars in revenue last year

[Luke888]

Ka-pi96 said:

Luke888 said:

dunno but it's one of the few information that we know of the current situation with Pokémon. I see The Pokémon Company as the company involved in advertising, translations and merchandising while Game Freak develops the games and Nintendo publishes them...

Well the Pokemon Company website says they are involved in licensing the franchise and quite clearly states 'was established through joint investment by the three businesses holding the copyright on Pokémon: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Creatures Inc., and GAME FREAK inc.' https://www.pokemon.co.jp/corporate/en/history/

To me that says those three companies jointly own the copyright to Pokemon and that it isn't 100% Nintendo.

yeah, but the 33% of Nintendo includes as I previously said the names of the Pokémon themselves aswell as items etc.