What will be the launch titles for Nintendo's Next Console?

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IcaroRibeiro said:

This will never happen

Gaming is not Pokémon Company primary bussines

They are first and foremost a toy and merchandise company. Pokemon games needs to keep getting released in short amounts of time so they have source material to release their anime, movies, card games and new merchan

Console games sales are secondary. By all intents, they only reason I believe they keep releasing games on consoles is because Nintendo owns 30% of the IP and uses them to move hardware. If Game Freak was the major shareholder they would have ditched consoles already and became 100% a smartphone developer

lol, without the Nintendo games, the Pokemon brand would've fizzled a long time ago. Nintendo keeps IP relevant better than anyone. They make hundreds of millions from the games, if they don't want the money from that, they can gladly just pass it all along to Nintendo, I'm sure they'd be happy to take it all. 

I don't think toy licensing is as massive as a business as it used to be either, kids don't buy toys and merchandise in the same way they did say circa 2000. If anything that is a declining business. Not to say they aren't successful, but I think they are more depedent on the games and Nintendo keeping the brand fresh and continually bringing in new fans with their games (the same way they keep Mario, Zelda, etc. etc. humming along decade after decade). 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 20 December 2023