>>40481960It's part of the deal and ownership issues, Nintendo CAN'T force GF to do certain things unless a lengthy legal battle and many, many phone calls are involved
>GF deals entirely with the mainline RPG games' development and are 100% owners of each game's code, regardless of quality, that's why despite Wii U having GBA VC there was no gen 3 in it, GF didn't want their games there>While the designs are made by GF most of the work is done by Creatures, who do nothing but grunt work relating to the Pokemon IP>Nintendo has the most control over the IP, trademarks and ultimately own the actual creatures, but little else regarding them >TPCI company manages everything because neither of the 3 parties involved wanted to deal with the international coordination/headaches required to handle an IP of the size, they are given the power to make every decision related to merchandise and schedule as long as it doesn't directly interfere with the 3 IP holder's interestsFun fact; While Nintendo can't really force GF to do much, they can also stop them from releasing anything at all related to Pokemon
Both GF and TPCI swore the Switch was going to bomb, and if it had been up to them, they wouldn't have released anything at all, Nintemdo likely strong armed them into compliance backstage, likely with the threat of not allowing any future Pokemon release at all if they didn't get on board now
