>>28164383You don't seem to understand how the industry works, a publisher funds and distributes a game, developer makes it.
The budget comes from the publisher, which the publisher gets via profit and investment.
all that said, gamefreak and pokemon are sorta split between a few companies, but that has more to do with the anime/merchandise and material like the mangas.
Have an example of this; the pokemon spin offs on the game cube. Colosseum and Gale of Darkness didn't sell so great, so nintendo never financed anymore story heavy pokemon spin offs on a home console.
they thought maybe if they changed the style and they tried to make something like pokemon stadium on the wii with battle revolution, but that also didn't sell very well.
Nintendo has a huge say in what pokemon games get made, they finance the production and distribution, and since pokemon is only on nintendo systems that gives them even more control.
However, the pokemon company has the final say on merchandise, which is why the pikachu amibo didn't have functionality with a few mario games, and generally why pokemon doesn't appear with all the mainline nintendo properties.
>>28164467I didn't hear that, that's good.
That said, I'm positive middle versions are done.
