If Sony makes a "Playstation Switch" could it succeed?

[EricHiggin]

RolStoppable said:

EricHiggin said:

Well if MS owns Rare and Rare licenses DKC from Nin, then yes, MS gets all if not a portion of the profits that Rare would keep, and Nin gets whatever their licensing fee is and possibly a percentage of the profits on top, depending on how the deal is arranged. Just because you own the right to something doesn't mean you always gain all profits from it. I have the right to free speech, but I don't profit off of every other person who speaks freely, but I do 'profit' to some degree.

Don't let yourself be fooled. The facts are that Nintendo assigned Retro Studios to make two new Donkey Kong Country games after they had sold their stake in Rare who made the first three Donkey Kong Country games. Microsoft didn't see a single cent from the new DKC games because they had no involvement in any form.

It would work the same way for Pokémon. If GameFreak ended up making a game for PlayStation, it wouldn't be Pokémon because Nintendo holds all the trademarks and wouldn't allow it. Nintendo would assign a different development studio to make new Pokémon games and have the games exclusive to their own platform.

Hence why I said "if". If MS and Rare aren't involved then obviously they wouldn't receive any money, if they were, they would most certainly receive money. Unless the Pokemon games are 100% completely separate in every way from the rest of the Pokemon franchise, which is highly unlikely, Nin would have to pay PS their 66% share overall. Just because Nin has the specific rights to name/names, doesn't mean all profits from that portion all go to Nin if they only hold a third portion of the overall franchise.