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Thanks for the clarification. Do they at least get credit for backing and popularizing Pokemon Go? Where would it be without Nintendo? (Real questions; I'm not

Thanks for the clarification. Do they at least get credit for backing and popularizing Pokemon Go? Where would it be without Nintendo? (Real questions; I'm not advocating for Nintendo.)

cbhl 10y ago
Well, that would just be Ingress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)
gshulegaard 10y ago
As I understand it, not really. Niantic took their Ingress platform and modified it slightly to work with Pokemon IP with a minigame (casting poke-balls) inside. The original PokeStops were actually Ingress points of interest :)
- hackuser 10y ago
  EDIT: Per Wikipedia, the idea for the game came from a Pokemon Company employee (owned 33% by Nintendo [0]), inspired by Ingress, and the game was developed at the Pokemon Company. Another link says "The Pokémon Company... and Nintendo jointly developed the app". Where does the story that it was all Niantic come from? Per Wikipedia: * Ingress: It was downloaded 8 million times "as of" 2015, about a year after its release, and claimed 7 million players in 2015. * Pokemon Go: 130 million downloads in its first month, 650 million within 8 months. PG was "the most active mobile game in the United States ever with 21 million active users" within a week of its launch; note that is in only one country. From a software development perspective Nintendo might not have done anything, but who had the vision to invest in bringing this to such a huge market? That also is an investment in creativity and innovation. (That's not meant to be a rhetorical question; I don't know the answer.)
  - gshulegaard 10y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go As shown, the developer and publisher is Niantic which is also the developer of Ingress. Perhaps you are referring to this snippet: > The concept for the game was conceived in 2014 by Satoru Iwata of Nintendo and Tsunekazu Ishihara of The Pokémon Company as an April Fools' Day collaboration with Google, called the Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge.[21] Ishihara was a fan of developer Niantic's previous transreality game, Ingress, and saw the game's concept as a perfect match for the Pokémon series.[22] Niantic used the crowdsourced[23] data from Ingress to populate the locations for PokéStops and gyms within Pokémon Go, and data from Google Maps to spawn specific Pokémon on certain terrain or environment.[24][25] So for background, The Pokémon Company is more or less a licensing body for handling licensing of the Pokémon IP and franchise. They collaborated with Niantic to meld an Ingress inspired augmented reality game with the Pokémon IP. Yes The Pokémon Company is a subsidiary of Nintendo so in a way Nintendo had a hand in the collaboration...but I would probably classify it as a 2nd or even 3rd order relationship. But that is a personal judgement call I suppose. In my mind, the augmented reality game design was wholly pioneered and executed by Niantic (not once but twice). The idea for melding said design with Pokémon IP came from the franchise licensing entity of The Pokémon Company which is a joint subsidiary of Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures who were the three businesses holding copyright on Pokémon at the time of its founding [1]. But again, somewhat of a personal view point. To me, I wouldn't necessarily attribute much related to Pokémon Go to Nintendo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company

Thanks for the clarification. Do they at least get credit for backing and popularizing Pokemon Go? Where would it be without Nintendo? (Real questions; I'm not advocating for Nintendo.)

cbhl 10y ago

Well, that would just be Ingress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)

gshulegaard 10y ago

As I understand it, not really. Niantic took their Ingress platform and modified it slightly to work with Pokemon IP with a minigame (casting poke-balls) inside. The original PokeStops were actually Ingress points of interest :)

hackuser 10y ago
EDIT: Per Wikipedia, the idea for the game came from a Pokemon Company employee (owned 33% by Nintendo [0]), inspired by Ingress, and the game was developed at the Pokemon Company. Another link says "The Pokémon Company... and Nintendo jointly developed the app". Where does the story that it was all Niantic come from? Per Wikipedia: * Ingress: It was downloaded 8 million times "as of" 2015, about a year after its release, and claimed 7 million players in 2015. * Pokemon Go: 130 million downloads in its first month, 650 million within 8 months. PG was "the most active mobile game in the United States ever with 21 million active users" within a week of its launch; note that is in only one country. From a software development perspective Nintendo might not have done anything, but who had the vision to invest in bringing this to such a huge market? That also is an investment in creativity and innovation. (That's not meant to be a rhetorical question; I don't know the answer.)
- gshulegaard 10y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go As shown, the developer and publisher is Niantic which is also the developer of Ingress. Perhaps you are referring to this snippet: > The concept for the game was conceived in 2014 by Satoru Iwata of Nintendo and Tsunekazu Ishihara of The Pokémon Company as an April Fools' Day collaboration with Google, called the Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge.[21] Ishihara was a fan of developer Niantic's previous transreality game, Ingress, and saw the game's concept as a perfect match for the Pokémon series.[22] Niantic used the crowdsourced[23] data from Ingress to populate the locations for PokéStops and gyms within Pokémon Go, and data from Google Maps to spawn specific Pokémon on certain terrain or environment.[24][25] So for background, The Pokémon Company is more or less a licensing body for handling licensing of the Pokémon IP and franchise. They collaborated with Niantic to meld an Ingress inspired augmented reality game with the Pokémon IP. Yes The Pokémon Company is a subsidiary of Nintendo so in a way Nintendo had a hand in the collaboration...but I would probably classify it as a 2nd or even 3rd order relationship. But that is a personal judgement call I suppose. In my mind, the augmented reality game design was wholly pioneered and executed by Niantic (not once but twice). The idea for melding said design with Pokémon IP came from the franchise licensing entity of The Pokémon Company which is a joint subsidiary of Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures who were the three businesses holding copyright on Pokémon at the time of its founding [1]. But again, somewhat of a personal view point. To me, I wouldn't necessarily attribute much related to Pokémon Go to Nintendo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company