>>58417664Nintendo provide the budgets for Pokémon, you stupid faggot. They're ordering a game for THEIR systems, continuing the relationship they established with Tajiri and Game Freak in 1990, when they gave him a dev budget and Miyamoto as advisor to create the game he'd pitched to them, to support their new handheld at the time. the series grew to the point it needed a whole entire company to run the brand outside the core games, but at the crux of the whole thing remains Game Freak's games which release solely for Nintendo systems, which afford Nintendo 30% publisher's cut on all copies sold AND 100% of the profit of all consoles sold alongside any one Pokémon game for their investment of the dev budget to make it. Game Freak could likely fund the things themselves at this stage and still not lose out. But as the contract's between they and Nintendo, Nintendo are the ones putting hands in pockets.
