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

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Soundwave said:

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). 

This information is regarding 2019, and has likely increased a lot since.

The Pokémon Company revenue is $92 billion
Merchandise - $61.1 billion
Games - $17.14 billion
Trading Cards - $10.25 billion
Comics and Manga - $1.46 billion
Box Office - $1.31 billion
Books - $860 million

As of 2022, the Pokémon Company earned $11.6 billion profit from licensing and merchandise.
The Pokémon Company's licensing program involves gaming, toys, apparel and accessories, designer collaborations, home decor, and publishing.

As of 2023 Pokémon is the highest grossing entertainment media franchise of all time, having grossed an estimated $150 billion in lifetime revenue as of 2023. This includes an estimated $30 billion grossed from video games and $100 billion from licensed merchandise sales.
For more info view VGSales Pokémon Franchise

So yes The Pokémon Company is pushed by the merchandise, not the games.
The games came first in early 1996
Then the trading cards in late 1996
Then the manga a month after the cards
Then the anime in early 1997.
This is all in Japan at least. The anime came to America first.

Yes, the games were first and we love that they continue to make more.
Just because the games came first does not mean that they put the most importance to the games.

The reason a generation is 3 years long is because thats how long a Pokémon anime is. So as long as the anime is 3 years long, the next generation will arrive in 3 years.