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SensorTower: Pokemon Go has made $1.8 billion, still making $70 million per month
- Thread starter Nirolak
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You know very well that it wasn't the argument, even more in a thread about sales.
We don't know the percentage of what those companies own Pokémon copyright. What you posted is what those companies own from their joint venture in TPC
Nintendo also is the company who owns the trademark of the Pokémon logo and name of the Pokémon.
As a Google spinoff company that created the platform on which Pokemon GO sits, they will be doing just fine and I imagine probably have a rev share/royalty of between 30-70% on net revenues. That's a wide range reflective of a lack of insight into how easy it may have been to get TPC/Nintendo across the line, but at the bottom end is what a solid developer should expect for a royalty on a third party funded project anyway and at the top end its closer to a licensing deal which is the model Niantic were pursuing. Any number in that range is going to have left them with a ton of cash.
On top of that, they are the publisher of record with Apple and Google, so all of that revenue is going through their bank accounts which will have some residual financial upside which will be quite meaningful at that scale, especially if they are reporting and paying out royalties to TPC on a quarterly basis.
With this news, I'm really curious to see how Let's Go sells in comparison to the 2019 game. Will a ton of casuals make the jump to a real mainline title, or will Go's success not carry over very well to the core games?
I'd be pretty worried if the casualized side of the franchise were to completely eclipse the core games outside of mobile.
I'd be pretty worried if the casualized side of the franchise were to completely eclipse the core games outside of mobile.
It's hard to say. If the Switch's demographics were the Wii's, the "transition" would work a lot better.
Even if a sizable number of Pokemon Let's Go players end up picking up Pokemon 2019 and help it outsell PLG, fanboys will argue that the "superior" Pokemon game won on the backs of the die-hards alone.
Nintendo owns the copyright to "Pokemon" and all the pokemon names
I know that Nintendo owns the copyright of Pokémon along Game Freak and Creatures, what I said is that we don't know the percentage of it. Also, they don't own copyright but trademark like I said.
© 2016 Pokémon. © 1995–2016 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc. Pokémon, Pokémon character names and Nintendo 3DS are trademarks of Nintendo.
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Legal/Copyright/Nintendo-and-Third-party-Copyrights-655030.html
I downloaded it again after deleting it when Johto Pokemon were added. I'm not sure what all the hype is about. It's essentially the same exact game with minor changes here and there.
I see a lot of people playing it.
Recently I got a please come back email with a promo code and everything.
Recently I got a please come back email with a promo code and everything.
