Niantic CEO John Hanke recently took part in an interview with technology publication Tech Crunch following the news that the Pokemon GO developer has secured a $20 million investment from Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, and Google with another $10 million on the cards if the product is a success. Hanke revealed to the site that he is truly honoured to be working with Nintendo and praised the company’s legacy.
“Terrific. It’s an honor to have the support and insights of a company that has brought decades of joy to people through their IP, game design, technology innovation. They share our same values of using innovation and play to bring people together. We have so much respect for Nintendo, as well as The Pokémon Company and of course Google. We couldn’t ask for a better group of companies.”
How come Google is investing so much into Pokemon Go as well? Is it because it uses Google Maps or because Niantic made Ingress with them?
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So the pokemon company is not wholly owned by Nintendo ?
If not. Surely there is an agreement that pokemon would never appear on a competitor machine ? Sorry for ignorance. Just very curious
There are dumb GAME FREAK fanatics out there who thinks Pokémon is only “licensed to Nintendo”. This isn’t true. Nintendo owns enough of Pokémon to make sure they can never come to other consoles. Mobiles aren’t consoles tho.
I’m totally amazed that everyone is putting so much faith in Niantic, out of all the mobile developers out there? Have you people seen their games? Ingress and Endgame, nothing about those games has me excited to see them working on Pokémon Go. So I’m hoping they’re only implementing the GPS based parts, and Nintendo does the rest.
I’m honestly baffled as to why people are so hype over this Pokémon Go trailer to begin with, when it barely showed any gameplay, except for like 5 seconds towards the end with poké balls being thrown.
Ingress has a very similar trailer if that says anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92rYjlxqypM
People sure get excited over nothing these days.
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