>>47792105Prism hit a different demographic than the core games. It was made specifically for the people who grew up with the first few gens who are in their 20s and 30s now while they targeted Gen 7 and 8 mainly to this generation of kids. People in the older age range who played Prism but not Gen 7/8 weren't going to play them even if Prism didn't exist.
Let's talk from solely a business perspective where you want to make money and gain good PR. Nintendo is completely ignoring a potential market, even if it's not as big as the main one. If they felt Prism was -that- influential that they just had to get involved, they could've contacted the guy who made Prism and worked with him to release it on the 3DS online store. Things in Prism would've had to been changed to fit Nintendo's approval, but besides that, he could've use the money to build up a team to finish developing it as a genuine Pokémon game.
Everybody wins in that situation. Prism is better than ever, Prism developers are happy, Nintendo gets major PR points and money for supporting a fan project and releasing it. That's pretty much what happened with Christian Whitehead and Sega and the same could've been done with Pokémon Prism.
To this day I have no idea what the fuck they were thinking. They literally threw money and PR away for no reason except to be stubborn.
