Aaron Fox
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You've got to understand that Nintendo is not your standard gaming company on the market, it started out as a card making company back in 1889 (whose cards are worth a rather pretty penny to this day), went through a 'throw darts at the wall and see what sticks' phase (which included love hotels) before sticking to toys for a while before becoming a gaming giant, and has been a family-owned company until Iwata became the corporate president in 2002. It is also HQ'd in Kyoto, which is basically the weird (as in 'scratch your head' weird) conservative city of Japan.Alas they can't be greedy fucks in a useful way.
Pokemon is perfect for an MMO and it would be fairly trivial to make; but Nintendo has been adamantly opposed for some idiotic reason that makes zero sense.
You do not survive as a business for 131 years (yes, Nintendo is that fucking old, it's a dinosaur in the business world) with 113 of those years being a family-owned company by being an idiot. After Virtual Boy (and the clusterfuck that caused), they only went 'all in' if doing so won't massively backfire on them.
The thing is, Pokemon outside of its own niche it created isn't that capable of being 'diversified' per se. Other franchises can be actually capable of diversification. Take Fallout, for instance, it is perfect for an Impressions Games line of city builders but the problem is the fanbase would riot if you tried right now. Fallout 4 tried to test the waters but... well... one part of the fandom absolutely hated it and another absolutely loved it. It is like how every new Gundam continuity has a tendency to split the fanbase into haters and lovers.Yes, that too. Greed would be acceptable if it had positive outcomes, that is encouraged them to do make money through hard work and perseverance and of course creating a product that people actually want.
I am pretty sure Nintendo has their reasons, and that being they are afraid of killing the goose who is laying their golden eggs. Probably far too afraid to take any tepid steps towards diversifying the franchise.
Pokemon, on the other hand, doesn't have that capability without years of research and work. Years that the stockholders won't give them.