HAL Laboratory starting to develop mobile games, first title out this fall

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twintail said:

Xen said:

But it is a Nintendo app, even if not developed by an internal team. 

But Nintendo has nothing to do with it though, right?

It's Niantic and Pokemon company

The Pokemon Company is a Joint venture between Nintendo and Gamefreak. which means Nintendo partly owns Pokemon. Oh, and did I mention that Nintendo alone owns all Pokemon trademarks? Everything that has Pokemon in it is licensed from Nintendo.

So yeah, Nintendo is pretty much owning Pokemon and every single Pokemon product from toys to games to animes goes through them first.