>>54372793WHAT. FUCKING. SHAREHOLDERS?
Game Freak is owned by Tajiri, Masuda and Sugimori, as they founded it. Creatures is similarly privately owned, with stock options given to Nintendo, to shore up that arm of the franchise from a hostile takeover, TPC is owned evenly byu GF, Creatures and Nintendo and people buying into Nintendo's shares do so for Nintendo's stock market performance, not pokémon's (or else Nintendo stock would have LONG since been A++ "Must buy Yesterday!", because Pokémon grew to be the highest-grossing multimedia IP ever in about 20 years and Ninty's name been on it since Day One). There's no shareholders with a vested interest in this shit, it's been far too profitable from the very start to need to crowdfund rubes to buy pieces of it to generate money.
