Should Nintendo Buy Game Freak?

[Wyrdness]

CaptainExplosion said:

Wyrdness said:

That's a misconception that mobile and 3DS compete the actual truth is they're different branches as the games people go for on each are heavily different, mobile is essentially another platform for Nintendo now. It's like saying Facebook games compete with Steam.

Nintendo actually owns not only controlling stake but also full publishing rights of Pokemon, they fully own Kirby as well.

I thought HAL was the bigger rights owner for Kirby, which could explain why the World of Nintendo toys don't extend to Kirby characters.

Sure, they've done Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Star Fox, Metroid and Splatoon toys, but not Kirby. In fact I mostly see Kirby merch coming strictly from Japanese outlets.

Nintendo is the main owner but HAL have some stake and manage the IP for example the Kirby animated series was developed by a studio that required Nintendo's collaboration even though it was solely distributed by HAL. Essentially Kirby is handled in s similar way to Pokemon but not on the same scale, this frees up Nintendo to focus on other things.