Pokemon is owned by GameFreak, Creatures Inc and Nintendo. Roughly split in thirds.
However, Nintendo also owns an undisclosed amount of Creatures Inc and I think parts of GameFreak, making them the majority holder of Pokemon as a whole.
GameFreak does release other games on different platforms. Notably, they will release Beast of Reincarnation on everything but the Switch 2 this year.
Because Nintendo never figured out Blast Processing. Crucial in developing on most platforms …
Nintendo wants you to buy a Switch 2. Exclusive games like Pokemon mean that you probably eventually will.
Nintendo reserves the exclusives rights most likely. It’s a system seller.
big daddy N makes more money not selling on other consoles.
Because Nintendo are anticompetitive and want to increase the sales to their console by only releasing titles to it.
Nintendo.
At this point, the ONLY reason to buy Nintendo is exclusives (that cannot be emulated). But they make it pretty easy to not buy their stuff anymore.
Nintendo owns part of The Pokémon Company.
They are exclusively for Nintendo’s consoles, and it owns a third of the Pokemon company. Simple.
Hopefully, this question opens the eyes of OP to the world of closed ecosystems.
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Nintendo has determined it’s not a benefit to their business model and they own a third of the Pokémon Company. Their new competitive game is coming to mobile phones in a few months though which is a pretty big change.
Same reason why Mario and Zelda aren’t on those platforms.
It’s my understanding that those games are wholly owned by Nintendo, whereas Pokemon is only partially owned.
The two parts that manage the video game side are Nintendo (whose interest it is to keep Pokemon exclusive) and Game Freak (whose main publisher is Nintendo and who very much needs Nintendo’s cooperation to stay alive) have little to no interest in expanding the games to other platforms. And considering Nintendo was the publisher of the Pokemon games before the Pokemon company even existed they might’ve snuck into some joint venture agreement or IP agreement or whatever that Nintendo gets the final word on what platform the games are released on.
So them having only partial ownership of the Pokemon company doesn’t mean they can’t have full control over where the games get released.
Partially owned still counts.
