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Pokemon CEO on Switch success and why it’s the right time for the franchise to appear on the system
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Some of those numbers seem tiny for the company making one of the biggest games in the world. I know they don't get all of the profit but still.
Dont have too much hope with game freak
$60 will be just fine for them. Many other kid friendly games (and games that kids play) retail for that price
He didn't really said that they will "put or not" games on Switch, did he?
He said that he didn't belive the Switch would be a sucess, and like I said, not everyone in a company think alike.
Some Nintendo employees didn't like the direction the company was going with the Wii, but could they do anything about it? No.
Nintendo's Iwata Asks said:
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/wii_console/0/0
I'm not strictly talking about Switch, his statement or things like that. I'm talking about TPC acting as if they're not producing Pokémon titles with Nintendo in every console release since their establishment. I'm in doubt as why it happens because of their relationship, because Nintendo owns Pokémon in some way and Nintendo created the company along the other two.
Is this after or before Nintendo, gamefreak and creatures pick their part?
Ah, ok.
Many executives talk weirdly, so who knows...
Maybe they want people to think they are "independent" and "powerful" because they manage one of the worlds biggest brands...
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I kinda dislike TPC. The way they act towards Nintendo, their parent company, is pretty disrespectful.
This only started in the Iwata era, as he was a "peaceful" and "understanding" leader...
When Yamauchi was president, they were keep on a tight leash:
Ishihara (The Pokémon Company president): Ah, yes. At the time, Game Freak was moving onto the production of the next title with Pokémon Gold and Silver, and we didn't even have any people to spare to even do any kind of port. For starters, when we made Pokémon Red and Green, the thought of bringing it to countries outside of Japan didn't even occur to us in the first place. It was when we heard Yamauchi-san's [former Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi] voice of authority say "release this in America!" that started it all.
4Gamer: So Game Freak at the time was in a state where resources couldn't be spared for ports or planning out things such as Pokémon Stadium?
Ishihara (The Pokémon Company president): Yes. On top of Yamauchi-san's unconditional command of overseas development, he was also there instructing us to "hurry up and make the next title" [laughs]. However, we only saw one possible choice at the time, and decided to focus our attention on Gold and Silver rather than an English version, and thought "overseas development is just a dream within a dream," and gave up on that idea. But that's where one man raised his hand—HAL Laboratory's president Iwata.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/12/3...elped-in-the-unlikely-localization-of-pokmon/
Remember this is just the profit they make, revenue is far higher, but they do spend lots and lots of money on R&D, advertising and market research.
Nobody knows, since Pokemon Inc is a private company.
Theoretically they dont even have to announce earnings at all, they just do due to some Japanese custom.
Considering how well Kirby sold at 60, Pokemon is gonna be just fine.
And a big chunk of the Go audience spent way more than 0$ on it, the 1 billion dollars it makes a year come from somewhere.
Another weird thing is all the complaints about the difficulty, as if Pokemon games and wild Pokemon battles were hardcore previously.
People just like to complain.
It does not really matter about what, they will always find another thing.
And if they cant find anything to complain about currently, they will just complain about things that have not yet happened, even if they probably wont happen anyway.
Nintendo almost assuredly pushed the Pokemon guys for Pokemon Lets Go from summer 2016 ... that's when Pokemon Go blew up, no way was Nintendo just sitting there watching that and not thinking of ways to cash in on that.
Summer 2016 to fall 2018 is pretty much your standard game dev cycle, so all that lines up very obviously.
By July/August 2016 it was clear as day Pokemon Go was one of the biggest gaming phenemons of the new century really, they had to have had a meeting where "hey, you guys want to make a Pokemon game for our new NX system that links up with Pokemon Go?" was brought up repeatedly.
Summer 2016 to fall 2018 is pretty much your standard game dev cycle, so all that lines up very obviously.
By July/August 2016 it was clear as day Pokemon Go was one of the biggest gaming phenemons of the new century really, they had to have had a meeting where "hey, you guys want to make a Pokemon game for our new NX system that links up with Pokemon Go?" was brought up repeatedly.
I find this stance so stupid for the studio that makes pokemon.
Like i can somewhat understand for a third party, and by somewhat i mean if you are catched with your pants down, then its your fault but with stuff like the wiiu i can understand that line onf though.
But tpc os mainly working for nintendo. This is the successor of their last partable AND console. You suck it up and develop for it with time in advance. And if the thing fails, im still pretty sure your game is still going to sell REALLY well, liKe mario, karts and zelda, and its not like you are going bakrupt if it doesnt, the company has money flying from their ears.
TPC and gamefreak are in the position of just trying their fucking best on the new console of the company you mainly work for.
But of course it doesnt surprise me their way of bad ideas after seeing lets go. And i know is going to sell bonkers and they will learn nothing out of it.
The 2019 game has to look really good for me to give them another chance.
Yeah.
Nintendo must have exercised their authority on them this time, since Ishihara said that they were already developing it before Switch's launch:
And sounds like they didn't had a choice but follow Nintendo orders, even though they were uncertain of Switch's success:
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well, what else are they gonna make it for? given their private ownership, they pretty much don't have a say. the only other option I can see is Nintendo allowing them to wait a bit more time, much like other systems, but given we're talking about an HD game, it would release much later in the switch's lifetime. not making a game is a great way of getting booted from the job; and it's not like they could make Gen 8 for any other system, for a multitude of reasons.
Thank you for confirm this.
I always thought some people were a bit naive to think that Nintendo would fund a project like Pokémon without having full control over it, based just on public information and not taking account internal information that we don't know.
Yamauchi even said he would not accept this type of deal in business:
"Despite some prodding, Yamauchi would not offer any advice for the Mariners. Not even philosophical advice from a businessman who had seen his company through some hard times.
"I'm not allowed to say so much things about the operations of the Mariners at this point," he says.
He says, in fact, he doesn't consider it a business deal.
"If it were for business, I would not have accepted the offer, I believe. It's quite another reason that I went ahead with the Mariners.
"Of course, it's nothing like I'm going to throw money in the drain or nothing like that, because I am going to get some of the ownership . . . And I may be able to help people to be happy.
"In that charity, beyond my expectations, something happened."
"I'm not allowed to say so much things about the operations of the Mariners at this point," he says.
He says, in fact, he doesn't consider it a business deal.
"If it were for business, I would not have accepted the offer, I believe. It's quite another reason that I went ahead with the Mariners.
"Of course, it's nothing like I'm going to throw money in the drain or nothing like that, because I am going to get some of the ownership . . . And I may be able to help people to be happy.
"In that charity, beyond my expectations, something happened."
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920716&slug=1502386
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