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VanceIX on 25 July 2014
Vena said:
VanceIX said:

Nope, it's a private company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Freak


Nah, they own it. You can look up the shares holders, majority is Nintendo.

No, they don't. Owning majority share =/= owning the entire company. Game Freak is a second-party dev. Plus they are a private company, not public, so I don't think they even operate with shares.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Game_Freak



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petroleo on 25 July 2014

make them and tossed them.

I wonder why ?



DogRemag on 25 July 2014

How many of those are actually good or get pushed like Mario, Metroid, Zelda and Pokemon? If people do not know they exist than that is Nintendo's fault because either the games are crap or they fail to promote them.Eternal Darkness was not their creation BTW.They just published it like rare games.



Vena on 25 July 2014
VanceIX said:

No, they don't. Owning majority share =/= owning the entire company. Game Freak is a second-party dev. Plus they are a private company, not public, so I don't think they even operate with shares.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Game_Freak


Private or public doesn't matter. Nintendo owned 57% of GameFreak. They make all decisions for the company, ergo they own it.



VanceIX on 25 July 2014
Vena said:
VanceIX said:

No, they don't. Owning majority share =/= owning the entire company. Game Freak is a second-party dev. Plus they are a private company, not public, so I don't think they even operate with shares.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Game_Freak


Private or public doesn't matter. Nintendo owned 57% of GameFreak. They make all decisions for the company, ergo they own it.

No, 57% means the own the majority, not the entire company. That means that Game Freak is second party. You can research this anywhere, you'll get the same answer. Even the Pokemon wiki acknowledges them as a second party.



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Dunban67 on 26 July 2014
anthony64641 said:

While many clueless gamers claim that Nintendo does not make new franchises or IPs.  Mii-Gamer has rounded up all the new IPs Nintendo has made since 2001. And it reveals that Nintendo made over 70 new IPs in the time span. 

 

Nintendo Gamecube

  • Pikmin
  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
  • Animal Crossing
  • Battalion Wars
  • Geist
  • Chibi-Robo
  • Odama

Nintendo Wii

  • Art Style
  • Wii series
  • Endless Ocean
  • Disaster: Day of Crisis
  • Pandora’s Tower
  • Kiki Trick
  • Xenoblade Chronicles
  • The Last Story
  • Zangeki no Reginleiv

Wii-Ware

  • Bonsai Barber
  • Rock N’ Roll Climber
  • PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit
  • You, Me and the Cubes
  • Eco Shooter: Plant 530
  • Snowpack Park
  • ThruSpace
  • Line Attack Heroes
  • Fluidity

Wii U

  • Wonderful 101
  • Splatoon

Game Boy Advance

  • Golden Sun
  • Magical Vacation
  • Napoleon
  • Kuririn
  • Horse Racing Creating Derby
  • Stafy
  • Tomato Adventure
  • Drill Dozer
  • Rhythm Tengoku
  • bit Generations

Nintendo DS

  • Polarium
  • Nintendogs
  • Jump Super Stars
  • Electroplankton
  • Big Brain Academy
  • Brain Age
  • Clubhouse Games
  • Magnetica
  • Elite Beat Agents
  • Hotel Dusk: Room 215
  • Trace Memory
  • Master of Illusion
  • Slide Adventure MAGKID
  • Soma Bringer
  • Jam with the Band
  • Fossil Fighters
  • Style Savvy
  • Glory of Heracles
  • Friend Collection
  • Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine?
  • Cooking Guide: Can’t Decide What To Eat?

Dsi

  • Aura Aura Climber
  • Art Academy
  • Kappa Trail
  • Pinball Pulse: The Ancient Beckons

Nintendo 3DS

  • Codename S.T.E.A.M
  • Steel Diver
  • Tomodachi Life

3DS Ware

  • Harmo Knight
  • Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive!
  • Pushmo
  • Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword
  • Dillon’s Rolling Western
  • Ketzal’s Corridors
The Article isnt Exactly new but I havent seen a post of this on Vgchartz yet. 

With all these names listed plus many more older names- why do they have to do so many w Mario and little to no follow up games from these other names?  



Vena on 26 July 2014
VanceIX said:

No, 57% means the own the majority, not the entire company. That means that Game Freak is second party. You can research this anywhere, you'll get the same answer. Even the Pokemon wiki acknowledges them as a second party.


I am not talking about parties, when you own majority, you own the company because you make the decisions in the company. There is never really a point to buy out all of a company unless you want to completely fold it into a singularly owned entity. No need to do such with GameFreak since they are majority owned, and Nintendo owns the Pokemon IP. Monolith ended up in a similar position until Namco wanted to sell off the last bits and Nintendo finally bought them out. No real reason for Nintendo to buy the rest of GameFreak, nor does GameFreak have financial issues to need to/offer to be bought out.

See, I am not talking about this from game development standpoints but from business standpoints. For example, when Comcast bought 51% of NBC Universal, NBC Universal became a company under the viacom branch. (They now own 100% of it, but they owned it the moment they got 51% (acquisition of a company occurs at 51%, ie. ownership just not total, or the majority share) of the shares as they became the driving force of the company by, by court definitions of companies as people, being a single 'entity' that owns majority.) Nintendo owns GameFreak. Game development may define them as 2nd party but business wise they are owned by Nintendo.

Its semantics at the end of the day, but I have been and continue to be talking from a business perspective.



VanceIX on 26 July 2014
Vena said:
VanceIX said:

No, 57% means the own the majority, not the entire company. That means that Game Freak is second party. You can research this anywhere, you'll get the same answer. Even the Pokemon wiki acknowledges them as a second party.


I am not talking about parties, when you own majority, you own the company because you make the decisions in the company. There is never really a point to buy out all of a company unless you want to completely fold it into a singularly owned entity. No need to do such with GameFreak since they are majority owned, and Nintendo owns the Pokemon IP. Monolith ended up in a similar position until Namco wanted to sell off the last bits and Nintendo finally bought them out. No real reason for Nintendo to buy the rest of GameFreak, nor does GameFreak have financial issues to need to/offer to be bought out.

See, I am not talking about this from game development standpoints but from business standpoints. For example, when Comcast bought 51% of NBC Universal, NBC Universal became a company under the viacom branch. (They now own 100% of it, but they owned it the moment they got 51% (acquisition of a company occurs at 51%, ie. ownership just not total, or the majority share) of the shares as they became the driving force of the company by, by court definitions of companies as people, being a single 'entity' that owns majority.) Nintendo owns GameFreak. Game development may define them as 2nd party but business wise they are owned by Nintendo.

Its semantics at the end of the day, but I have been and continue to be talking from a business perspective.

And I am talking only from a videogame perspective. Game Freak is second party, not first, end of story. It doesn't matter who has what share, unless Nintendo has 100% of the shares, Game Freak will remain a second party.



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Mystro-Sama on 26 July 2014

80% of them are unforgettable.



WagnerPaiva on 26 July 2014

no Meeeerio??



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