Why Pokémon Will Never Leave Nintendo

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[@matthewlynn6108]

It’s even crazier when you consider how much older Hello Kitty, Mickey Mouse, and Star Wars are compared to Pokémon. Pokémon not only out sold and continues to sell, but it topped them all just within a few decades.

[@SeddyAm]

@@Javeton thats the reason why people can't stop buying them because they gotta catch 'em all until Devs run out of ideas or retired

[@vu1pix]

Probably because I have a drawer full of cute pokemon shirts and my kids even play it with me now

[@garlandstrife]

@@vu1pix manchild

[@lukamagicc]

Going from Pocket Monsters to this is quite insane.

[@arttukettunen5757]

Wait, Hello Kitty is that big? Aren't there like 100s of other popular brands for young children nowadays, I haven't heard it be relevant to anyone these days

[@Caolan114]

I love the story of Porygon During the development of Pokemon someone asked Masuda what he was working on and he said he was making a game for the Gameboy to which the person laughed and said he should make something with polygons and so he did

[@paperluigi6132]

And then Cyber Soldier Porygon happened…

[@marcoasturias8520]

Oh wow, people were dumbfounded with the brand new shiny tech of the moment, even back then.

[@Caolan114]

@@marcoasturias8520 Going from SNES to N64 was the biggest graphical leap ever

[@MediumDSpeaks]

@@marcoasturias8520 way way more then

[@cyrussoltani9420]

Ooooooooooof

[@sleepyespurr2922]

Kouichi Ooyama, one of the founders of the Pokemon TCG, was also the art director for Earthbound.

[@radio2299]

Interesting, didn't realize Red/Blue/Yellow was still the best-selling entry. Sakurai mentioned in one of his videos that the first Kirby game is also still the best-selling in the series. Those Game Boy titles were doing numbers!

[@KyleWithStyle7]

Numbers yeeeeeheeeee Yessirski

[@nephilimdj]

Gameboy was cheap world wide due to how old it was. Game boy pocket was out when red/blue released. Pokemon was like 35USD in Australia at launch.

[@Candyy248]

Yeah red/blue 1st most sold Sword/shield 2nd place

[@roadrash2005]

I remember for Christmas I got red,blue, and yellow all on the same day without asking for them all. So that’s why sales were so high

[@sbclaridge]

I wonder whether RBY's sales figures include the entire time period from release to present, or just around the time when RBY cartridges were manufactured and sold? If it includes time up until the present, then the more recent re-release of RBY on the 3DS Virtual Console should be considered. The same can be said for GSC sales figures, given their 3DS VC re-releases.

[@albertomaldonado4714]

I am a Nintendo fan since 1986. Now 41 years old. Been playing as a Professional TCG player for Pokémon these last 5 years, going to participate already my 3rd Championships Regional (Anaheim 2018, San Diego 2019 & San Diego 2023?). Have a workshop in which I teach to the public how to play TCG, because of this, got an invite to UCSD: University of California San Diego and promote this task. This is what Nintendo and Pokémon have done for me during my Life! So grateful! Salutes from Tijuana, Baja California, México.

[@FreightmareFTW]

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes have claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place (antichrist(s)). Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet Regarding the man of lawlessness or antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 2 Thessalonians was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound of the beast in Revelation 13, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state. “We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.) Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.) Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894) The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed. The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666

[@Neoxon619]

The Pokémon Company mostly operating separately is part of the reason why you don't see Pokémon cross over with the rest of Nintendo outside of Smash very often. They can weirdly iffy about that kind of stuff.

[@Astromontana]

Which is more shocking when you realize that Pokemon did a small crossover with Splatoon with one of Splatoon's splatfest. Splatoon is a relatively new IP so you would think TPC would only allow Pokemon to cross over with long term mainstays like Mario or Zelda.

[@internetguy7319]

@@Astromontana Splatoon is insanely huge in Japan, for the youth pretty much as popular as Pokemon. As well as that, a lot of Splatfests are sponsored- Splatfests can be used as advertising, essentially.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

@@Astromontana That makes sense no? The Splatfests have often acted as advertisement for other properties on several occasions.

[@Astromontana]

@@manuelalbertoromero9528 An advertisement is still a crossover. What you said made 0 sense.

[@Poever]

Pokémon used to be able to until the Pokémon Company came into existence. After 2001, you saw very little mention of Pokémon in Nintendo’s marketing, and their E3 2002 presence was a small spot at the BACK of Nintendo’s booth

[@jaredhebert942]

Glad to see John dive into the arcane tangles of Pokemon's existence

[@lukamagicc]

When he said “single player game with major cooperative and competitive elements” is a main foundation it really blew my mind. That simple idea turn into Pocket Monsters which turned into the behemoth of games, media, and merch we know today

[@user-nr2cs2rq7h]

Am very glad to see this clarified for people. Too often people have criticised Nintendo for Pokemon's reduced pokedex, DLC practices, and poor performance on the Switch. Those criticisms might have been fair, but only if they are directed at the ones that made such decisions.

[@internetguy7319]

Frankly some of these issues are likely with input from Nintendo. Especially pricing. They get a cut of the pie.

[@markellhawthorne2921]

@@internetguy7319 People need to just accept that gaming is an expensive hobby. lol

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Nowadays, Nintendo owns all the trademarks (name, logo, character names), though, which effectively means they can veto anything they don't approve of. So they're certainly not blameless when it comes to these issues.

[@diegoestrada4389]

@@Christopher-md7tf Exactly. Nintendo is to blame too with anything related to the franchise games wise, not just GF. Like seriously, I hate when some people say that Pokémon isn't a Nintendo franchise at all when it absolutely is.

[@trampledunderfootvid]

@@markellhawthorne2921 seriously lmao. I’ve never seen so many people complain so much about something that is ultimately just a hobby

[@Huy_YT]

With Jon and Masahiro Sakurai, there is an unusualy high amount of Nintendo history videos being made right now and I'm here for it^^ [insert Triangle Strategy meme comment here]

[@FreightmareFTW]

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes have claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place (antichrist(s)). Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet Regarding the man of lawlessness or antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 2 Thessalonians was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound of the beast in Revelation 13, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state. “We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.) Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.) Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894) The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed. The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666

[@abaque24]

One of the biggest reasons that people love nintendo, and nintendo adjacent companies is not brand loyalty, its the stories of the people behind-- its like legends that we tell each other: miyamoto's childhood exploring forests, tajiri's love of bugs, the loneliness of moving away from home for eguchi, ito's feelings of childhood and growing up, and many others. The games are games, sure but the reason they are games is cuz people wanted to fulfill an specific wish and share it with others. The case is the same for many other companies, but nintendo somehow attracted this specific people.

[@FreightmareFTW]

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes have claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place (antichrist(s)). Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet Regarding the man of lawlessness or antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 2 Thessalonians was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound of the beast in Revelation 13, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state. “We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.) Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.) Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894) The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed. The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666

[@matthewmincey8822]

Wow I never knew game freak started as a magazine and that they faced the very real prospect of them closing their doors for good before the release of pokemon. Also good lord are the rights and shares to this IP in a strangely tangled web. But hey it's going strong today.

[@BMoser-bv6kn]

@@FreightmareFTW Okay, but you need to teach me how to do that kickass Sticks to Snakes spell Moses used first

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

Jon, you're the only reason I'm even subscribed to this channel. Keep up the great work. Pokémon is a truly special and unique franchise, with its history of connections with some of the industry's finest people, Satoru Iwata, Shigesato Itoi...All of the combined talents, experience and love poured into Pokémon's inception certainly shows. Like it or not, this is rightfully the largest multimedia franchise, and, as such, it will go on to outlast all of us. I wonder what the next 10 Generations or so will bring?

[@theshadowdirector]

And it's worth rendering just how many executives have crossed over from The Pokémon Company to NIntendo, inducing the current president.

[@oddlynicole16]

I really enjoyed this video; I’ve always wondered about the complicated relationship between Pokémon and Nintendo, so this was very informative. I’d love to see one about Kirby and HAL Laboratory since there’s a similarly odd relationship between them and Nintendo.

[@LoomDoom]

Pokemon's history is very fascinating and Jon did a great job outlining it.

[@rebeccadraper1171]

I don't usually comment, but what an informative, well-spoken video about pokemon! The relationship between Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures wasn't something I was curious about before I watched this, but so many decisions and Pokemon Company staff makes so much sense now! Thanks for producing such a great video :D looking forward to other deep dives in the future

[@lieutenantpepper2734]

Jon got a couple of stuff right. Nowhere in the japanese wiki it says that nintedo bought 10% of creatures. according to my previous research Nintendo owns a lot of stocks at creatures.

[@FluffyEmmy1116]

This is my usual explanation: In relation to Nintendo, Game Freak are 3rd Party developers, but Pokémon is a 1st Party franchise.

[@aurum3747]

I like to call pokemon a 2nd party franchise Because *technically* nintendo has a cut of it and it only releases on nintendo consoles, they have no control over how the games are made and when they are released

[@heybenjii5544]

@@aurum3747 Well they sort of do, if they say that a certain game should not be released it will not, and also they do some quality control

[@non_one_c]

Little Town Hero also came to Xbox just like Tembo! :) Super interesting video. I've always wondered what "Creatures Inc." even was.

[@guguig9746]

Despite knowing a lot about the series, I still learned new things, and recalled some I did forget! Thank you for this informative work

[@fishyperil2153]

actually Red, Blue and Green sold 31 million copies by themselves. Yellow sold another 14 million, making for a total of 45 million copies of gen 1 games sold

[@dblibruary]

I think Pokemon wouldn't be Pokemon without the author Satoshi Tajiri he was the cement and bricks of the development of the franchise, sadly he quit after the 251 original designs he made which was later handed over to Nintendo and Gamefreak to continue the series to this day.

[@beauvogames]

Thank you for all your recent Nintendo explainer videos Jon. They're brilliant! It's really useful to know where all our different Nintendo games and series come from and what all these different companies do (for example, I have known the name Creatures for aaaaages but I've never really known what they actually do or where they came from). Thank you 😊

[@gabrielfreitas3033]

Very good and informative video! Another interesting aspect of mainline Pokémon development is how a lot of aspects of development like planning, programming and 3D modeling are outsourced to different companies, including some big name studios like Polygon Pictures. Every new game is a big collaboration project

[@Chiffonaise]

That's just modern game development. Few AAA games are developed fully in-house these days. Take Elden Ring for example. It's pretty but not the most graphically advanced game out there. Yet 24 companies are credited for support graphics development. And Death Stranding credits over 40 companies for support development.

[@gabrielfreitas3033]

@@Chiffonaise That's true! I just wanted to point it out because I feel like this aspect is often ignored in discussion

[@ModernEpicurian]

Chuck your face in the thumbnails, Jon. Being a group channel, everybody has their favourite characters, so it being clear which personality is at the fore is a benefit.

[@Falvern57]

If you like the content then what does it matter who's presenting it?

[@USMCbrantley]

Jon got a couple things wrong: Nintendo doesn't own 33% anymore of TPC since 2019. And I would like to know where he got the 10% ownership of Creatures from because Nintendo brought a very large UNDISCLOSED amount of Creatures in 2019. Under Yamauchi Nintendo brought a majority stake in both Game Freak and Creatures. Also he got Nintendo to Trademark the name Pokemon. Nintendo literally owns the name Pokemon. When Pokemon started becoming too big too fast he got Game Freak and Creatures to do a joint adventure with Nintendo and created The Pokemon Company in which all 3 owned equally (33% each). In 2019 Nintendo brought a very large UNDISCLOSED amount of Creatures. This leaves investors/shareholders like myself to believe they own majority control of Creatures. Shortly after that buy Nintendo sold 1% of their ownership of TPC to be spilt between Game Freak and Creatures and they did it again in 2020. This must had been part of the deal to buy a large UNDISCLOSED amount of Creatures. So Nintendo owns the Trademark name Pokemon. Nintendo owns 31% of TPC. Nintendo owns a majority stake in Game Freak. With extra buying of Creatures it's safe to assume they own majority of Creatures but not entirely probably like 45% to 49%. Pretty much Nintendo owns Pokemon. Damn Yamauchi was smart af to make sure his company got the fat sacks of cash.

[@scuppo]

Wow. Nintendo literally printing money

[@AndresLionheart]

This makes more sense as why Pokemon won't appear on other consoles. If all 3 parties owned an equal 1/3 why couldn't 2/3 of that decide against Nintendo?

[@USMCbrantley]

@@AndresLionheart Because of the large unknown ownership of Creatures that Nintendo has along with Nintendo being the only ones that owns the Trademarked name Pokemon its impossible to do anything with Pokemon without Nintendo's permission. That's why I said Yamauchi was very smart to make the business moves he did when it came to Pokemon.

[@bulborb8756]

@@USMCbrantley and all this just resulted in Nintendo owning a multimedia juggernaut of a franchise that i'd say is one of the "Big 3" of Nintendo (the other 2 being Mario & Zelda)

[@lieutenantpepper2734]

Thank you for clearing this up. I agree with you when doing my reseach Nintendo seem to have a good amount of socks from creatures inc. You should make a video about that.

[@DominicanStud101]

This is the best explanation I have seen on this topic. Thank you Jon for educating the masses.

[@paperluigi6132]

The recent Palworld drama has made it painfully clear just how much more widespread this video needs to become, since people everywhere are assuming that Nintendo is solely responsible for everything coming from Pokémon.

[@MxBeccas]

Thank you this was really illuminating !

[@Moonstrider]

Jon informs us as always - thank you!

[@sheckmeister]

Literally an 11/10 video, riveting from start to finish. I never knew all of that went into making the Pokémon games

[@eggnog7489]

This was beautiful, thanks John

[@kinogunda]

This video just signifies how lucky GVG is to have Jon.

[@Keeby]

8:06 I love how a pokemon named op uses psybeam in this video

[@Yntsire]

This is a wonderful little retrospective! Definitely will be the video I point to anytime I see anyone confused about the Pokemon IP ownership cluster. Also, what is the live action footage w/ cG Pokemon starting at 6:37 from? I've never seen it before, but it looks incredible!

[@pixeltrip2893]

It was the reveal for gen 3 pkmn coming to pkmn go

[@Yntsire]

@@pixeltrip2893 Thank you so much!

[@davidspraguedragonman6479]

Like Mario, Pokémon actually had a few small games on PC back in the day (not including the ones on the Pokémon website), like Pokémon Team Turbo (I actually had this one as a kid from a Scholastic Book Fair, and it wasn’t very good), Pokémon Project Studio Red and Blue, PokéROMs, and Pokémon Masters Arena, and the series also had a few arcade games including Pokémon Tretta, Pokémon Ga-Olé, Pokémon Battrio, and Pokémon Mezastar all being like the Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game, and an arcade port of Pokkén Tournament, where Scizor, Empoleon, Croagunk, and Darkrai made their Pokkén debuts.

[@FreightmareFTW]

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

[@leeartlee915]

I really like these investigative pieces John has been doing. Very fun and informative.

[@tcClockworth]

This video was so well done!

[@u.dplaythroughs8486]

Of Course

[@loading....6512]

Can we get history of Kirby next?

[@discam0]

What I really want answers to is what happened between Tekashi Shudo and whichever of the pokémon companies he worked with. I feel like there was a falling out between them at some point, after the whole Lugia disaster. I don't even know how he ended up leaving, I only knew he stopped working for them in 2002, then nothing for five years until Dancouga Nova in 2007, and then his death 3 years later.

[@gets0410]

This appeared on my suggestions. I was like "this, 100%, sounds like Jon."

[@GamingWarlord64]

FINAL FUCKINGLY SOMEONE is explaining how pokemon is n ok a Nintendo series

[@LuigianoMariano]

"After completing development of Earthbound, APE disbanded and returned as Creatures" So it's TRUE then! Mewtwo was inspired by Giygas!

[@WGoNerd]

This is an excellent and informative video!

[@Rebateman]

I feel like that the most likely way a Pokemon would not be on a Nintendo system, it would either be a spin-off (e.g. Pokemon Go on Mobile) or Nintendo would stop making systems and instead go a 3rd party dev like Sega.

[@KokoGogo1728]

Or if Namco were to steal it.

[@Ozhull]

@@KokoGogo1728 ????

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

Lol if Nintendo decide to stop making their own console and decide to be a software publisher only, they can be a decide factor for Sony or Microsoft to have a monopoly in the gaming industry.

[@KokoGogo1728]

@@Ozhull Namco is a better company. They care about their customers, unlike Nintendo.

[@Rebateman]

@@khanhnguyen-tt3ff Or if PC or mobile wins

[@christianfernandez7163]

Violet and scarlet sound like completely different games

[@ecthel777]

Yeah, it's kinda like a new beginning of the franchise, kinda like gen 3 back in the day.

[@macaroniii03]

wow, really great video. super informative!

[@k.ms.perkins8644]

Hallo kitty reminds me of Rainbow Nayan Meowth As well As Russian Blue Is still descendants of British shorthair cat just like i said about Meowth could fitting this role with Google Internet CAt As well but that's all 👍

[@wilianrodrigues5280]

Pokémon has the uncanny ability of not dying The amount of different revenues that Pokémon has gone into has made it impossible to kill Trading Cards, Merchandise, Videos, Games of many variety, the Anime, and many more smaller details has truly made it a giant

[@bradleyclark5936]

Thanks for the learn.

[@kirindas4691]

Thank you!

[@BluSteel_]

I still find it hilarious that SwSh is the 2nd best selling generation even after all that boycott pokemon twitter stuff

[@austingordon3709]

As someone who actually enjoyed Sword/Shield (even more after Isle of Armor/Crown Tundra was released), I'm glad it's sold so well. Yeah, there are Pokemon I would've loved to bring in Sword/Shield, like Gliscor, Meloetta (my favorite Mythical Pokemon), Ampharos, Florges, etc. but I'm not gonna make a hundred videos on how "Pokemon hasn't been good since the jump to 3DS". *COUGH* DistantKingdom *COUGH*

[@Grendel9]

I think the boycott actually increased sales due to how nasty some of the backlash got.

[@MrMariosonicman]

@@Grendel9 man I wish that boycott helped pokemon black and white sell as well. it seemed to of hindered them more then helped.

[@Grendel9]

@@MrMariosonicman I only recently started playing Pokémon black but I can tell people didn’t like it because it was too different at the time for certain folks. I say it’s similar to the way the Star Wars prequel movies are viewed nowadays.

[@MrMariosonicman]

@@Grendel9 that is actually a VERY good comparison. tho in both cases I liked them during a time they were both overly hated. it does make me happy they are getting better treatment in recent years.

[@SuperMarioT]

"When will this fad last?" Eh, over 25 years.

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

I would said this is a perfect relationship for pokemon, if you compare them to other gaming franchise, they basically the biggest and 3rd oldest franchise in gaming history

[@selder_7]

If the vita had got Pokémon it would’ve outsold the 3DS. Forcing the main Pokémon games onto the home console by just having the switch is a big part of why it’s done so well

[@Viidarr13]

imagine gamefreak free itself from grasp of evil nintendo claws and releases pokemon game called "pokemon adventure online" on pc. it would be mmo and each region would be released later on expansion.... so much things, experiences and joy to enjoy! +.*

[@bbjj3805]

6:10 crazy to think that lady is handling potentially millio s of dollars in that plastic bag

[@scholarscorner3208]

Eventually it becomes public domain so ya it will leave Nintendo eventually weather they like it or not

[@metirax]

Game freak was a magazine at the start? Should've known that

[@KPH101]

Pokemon is currently less of a Nintendo IP than are Kirby and Fire Emblem.

[@DeviceElectronic]

6:48 What's the name of the game?

[@mightilyoats2729]

Nintendo owns about 33% of Pokemon, and founded the company that owns another 33% (but Nintendo is weird like that and has founded several companies it doesn't actually own, including HAL Labs and (I believe) Intelligent Systems). That company is Creatures, Inc, btw. GameFreak owns the other third. YW for the not 11 minute video.

[@y2kosmo233]

You've got the best voice on KZbin Jon!!

[@will420high4]

Amazing story!

[@FoxMcLox]

If Pokémon Will Ever Leave Nintendo I Would Be Glad, So I Can Be An Eevee Forever! Please Don't Take Me Down, Nintendo…

[@thespeedyyoshi]

I love these types of videos ^w^

[@themissingbits6375]

Wow Nintendo had catch them all?!?

[@waycoolscootaloo]

*So basically 3 companies each own Pokemon.* But Nintendo does own 10% of Creatures. So if the 3 companies own 33.33% of Pokemon each, but Nintendo owns 10% of Creatures, does that mean that in reality if Nintendo cuts and runs with their share of Creatures that Nintendo secretly owns 36.66% of Pokemon? 😉 😅 After all, 10% of 33.33% is 3.33%. Think about it!!! Nintendo already has 33,.33%. But they can also claim 10% of Creature's 33.33% share too. 😉 Note: In reality, courts would likely just have Creatures buy out Nintendo's 10% stake.

[@FreightmareFTW]

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[@Novariousness]

Well that was fucking rad

[@Taydar]

how very convoluted

[@namename2040]

So all of the good models from pokemon snap? And mediocre to bad models are all done by Creature?

[@markellhawthorne2921]

Thank you KZbin for failing to notify me!

[@97MiloProductions]

the bad thing of the franchise becoming this big is that the games continue to come out undercoocked and lackluster despite more potent hardware housing them, all to meet deadlines for the other branches of their business...

[@Robert_D_Mercer]

It's a joke. I seen more effort put into fan projects. Like they can't be bothered to add a few more vertex's for those environments.

[@TheDeathwhish]

Thats the issue when so many things are tied to the games. The anime relies on the games to keep itself going, same for the TCG and the Pokemon Spin-off to add new Pokemon. Merchandise is also affected by it since new games means new products, plushies, etc.

[@TonyJenn]

@@Robert_D_Mercer yeah fan projects are dope but at the same time, they don't have all the outside BS to deal with either.

[@Xartharos]

@maltese1122 would not be as popular, the 2 biggest monster capture Franchise are merchandise first games later one is pokemon the other is digimon other monster capture are not as popular

[@goldmemberpb]

People love to bring out the fact that Pokemon is a billion dollar franchise whenever Gamefreak is involved. Even a fraction of that money is probably not going to magically get them to hire new people to lighten their workload.

[@lpnp9477]

They can, they choose not to. A fraction of a billion is more than enough for a competent technical director.

[@Billythekid73192]

@@lpnp9477 I think you're missing another issue. Technically nintendo could make gf take their time and hire more people to make their games look better but don't.

[@KokoGogo1728]

And then Nintendo comes along and tries to take all the credit.

[@zjzr08]

I'd argue they do, like it's a freaking billion, like it isn't making a program that perfectly predicts weather or something, it's making a turn based RPG, hehe.

[@zjzr08]

@@Billythekid73192 I'm mixed on this because Nintendo has shown willingness to delay games and sometimes not.

[@darksouls-qv8jb]

They did leve nitendo twice for sega pico and once for computer

[@DanteCrowlley]

I have a feeling Pokemon would fail if gone multiplatform, I can't really say why, but I can't imagine the same grosses outside Nintendo

[@KokoGogo1728]

Nintendo should focus on their own game, like Mario and Kirby and Animal Crossing and all that. Leave Pokemon alone. It is its own company, associated with Gamefreak. They can handle themselves.

[@xavi_]

@@KokoGogo1728 nintendo DOES own the pokemon company quarterly

[@KokoGogo1728]

@@xavi_ I dunno, maybe Namco can steal it.

[@megaman37456]

Pokemon IS Multiplat, like it or not you can play ANY Pokemon game on PC as well, legality or officiality do not matter. Pokemon is an unofficial multiplat.

[@megaman37456]

@@KokoGogo1728 Nintendo owns more than 50% of TPC they basically own the company at that point.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Because I feel I gotta, Jon said *media* brand, not gaming brand.

[@USMCbrantley]

It doesn't matter. Nintendo themselves Trademark the name Pokemon because Pocket Monster outside of Japan was already taken. They literally own the name. No one can do anything with Pokemon without Nintendo signing off on it. They have to not only change the name but also 51% of the fundamentals that make Pokemon, Pokemon or be sue by Nintendo big time. Nintendo brought a majority stake of both Game Freak and Creatures in the 90s. When Pokemon got too big too fast Nintendo said to those two companies let's do a joint adventure to handle the media stuff of Pokemon so together they created The Pokemon Company with all 3 owning equal shares (33% each). In 2019 Nintendo brought a very large UNDISCLOSED amount of Creatures and very shortly after that buy Nintendo sold 1% of ownership of TPC to be spilt between Game Freak and Creatures equally and again in 2020. Majority of shareholders like myself believe they did that because of the Creatures deal. On top of that its safe to assume investing wise that Nintendo owns between 40% to 49% of Creatures.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

@@USMCbrantley ....gonna take a wild guess and say you missed my point so badly that you'd be a Stormtrooper before 2015.

[@Falvern57]

Not really sure what point you're trying to make here. Gaming is a form of media. Pokemon very clearly extends beyond gaming so it would be inaccurate to call it purely a gaming brand.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

@@Falvern57 So you DO get the point, then. My point being that people love to use the claim of "most profitable franchise" without understanding what parts of the earnings go to what, on top of the company not actually having billions of dollars at their disposal, let alone solely for game development. Ntm that the games don't actually make as much money as the rest of the merch does.

[@catriamflockentanz]

9:49 Now that's a Disservice. Why do people always just talk about Little Town Hero and the worst of Elephants? You could also mention Giga Wrecker on Steam. First because it is a PC Game made specifically by people in GF that quote "were tired of making Pokémon RPGs all the time" and, unlike the other two, isn't bad.

[@Dj_Exo1]

Pokémon an investor can just make another great game and that’s it

[@majorblazer8808]

This video is some good shit right here

[@MuhammadAmin-ov4uv]

Pokémon has 3 owners 33% of it owned by nintendo 33% of it owned by gamefreak 34% of it owned by creatures inc

[@FreightmareFTW]

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

[@ArtemisWasHere]

Well yea, I very much doubt nintendo is going to let the most profitable media franchise ever just slip through their fingers

[@TazTheYellow]

It's so bizzare Sword and Shield have sold so well, whereas a decade ago Black and White "only" reached number-4 best selling DS title, and behind Diamond and Pearl no less!

[@brandonpierce2539]

Whether it's good or bad, publicity is publicity, and Sw/Sh sure had a LOT of it.

[@DaRichRab]

Mr. Perfect Cell, is that you?

[@arkcorps9138]

I wish Pokémon came to PC I bet the amount of people emulating their games would drop too bad they’re greedy

[@Galo994]

Those games would be cracked 20 mins after releasing on PC and so much people would pirate them.

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

It’s Nintendo IP!

[@brandonhiggs88]

This makes me wish magic the gathering had games for their new releases

[@Goldmight]

Finally people can shut up about pokemon being a "third party"

[@writer8706]

Don't forget Nintendo owns a part of game freak as well.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

Pulseman!!!

[@zR0y4l7y]

Good vibes gaming

[@wizzkid314]

I know all those people who left the project early are seriously regretting it now

[@Four-S]

Wait if Nintendo, Gamefreak, and Creatures each own 33% of Pokémon then that totals to 99%. So who owns the remaining 1% of Pokémon?

[@ihaveakirbyobessesion2617]

Me

[@KokoGogo1728]

Actually, Pokemon is entirely owned by the Pokemon Company and Game Freak. Nintendo is just the publisher of the games, therefore it has no affiliation with them.

[@poke4074]

You sound like one of the guys on GameXplain

[@DanielGonzalez-vo5ni]

He used to be one of the guys on the gaming club

[@shakeyoulikehaiti]

I haven't watched the video yet, but I didn't even need it to know that Pokemon will never leave Nintendo lol.

[@-nobodycares-1457]

1st generation that's it for me.

[@AtomicEy]

_Pokemon will never leave Nintendo_ this if fine, slime rancher2&hellblade2 not available on playstation feels wrong (originals were)

[@chapman8369]

I mean everyone knows Nintendo don't own Pokemon, but I did not expect so many insights oh Gamefreak and Creatures from you Jon

[@USMCbrantley]

Nintendo owns 31% of TPC Nintendo owns a majority stake in Game Freak. Nintendo owns a large UNDISCLOSED amount of Creatures. Nintendo also owns the Trademark name Pokemon. No one can do anything with that name without Nintendo signing off on it and getting money for it.