>>58411902>could nintendo just saddle themselves with needing to pump out a game a year to continue their highly lucrative and highly popular franchise they already profit most full from without having to do any extra work to do so?Aside from the blatantly obvious "why buy a dog and bark yourself?" angle, they probably could, but would then hire the staff wholesale, clositer them off in their own wing and have them shit out games for them, only with the drawback of having to then fund those new hires' taxes, social contributions and holiday pay. And given the proposed scenario, the GF staff would likely hold Nintendo by the balls and demand the same remuneration package they were earning off Game Freak (no mandated weekends, flexible shift work, working from home, which they were offering BEFORE covid forced everyone's hand, 4 weeks paid holidays, all public holidays off paid) or they'd say "fuck it, we out" leading Nintendo to likely shit the bed as they suddenly have NO staff from the old regime, need to hire a fuckload new staff to run Pokémon AND risk the property's worth in entirety, because if it's not on-the-nose Game Freak style, the world will reject it. Be easier to just keep paying Game Freak to make it (every release was funded by Nintendo, meaning if there's 20 non-spin-offs in 3 years, it's because Nintendo wanted the game sales to bump the system sales).
