For the last decades they are a second party developer at best. And Nintendo owns 1/3 of the Pokémon Company. And another third is owned by Creatures which is independent from Nintendo only on paper.
There were a lot of upset investors who bought Nintendo stock when Pokémon Go launched, to learn The Pokémon Company was not public, or the same entity.
Game Freak isn’t Nintendo. It’d be like seeing a Playstation reference in a Square Enix game.
It’s more like seeing a PlayStation reference in a Naughty Dog game.
For the last decades they are a second party developer at best. And Nintendo owns 1/3 of the Pokémon Company. And another third is owned by Creatures which is independent from Nintendo only on paper.
There were a lot of upset investors who bought Nintendo stock when Pokémon Go launched, to learn The Pokémon Company was not public, or the same entity.
Lmao