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Do you believe that Nintendo Co. Ltd. feels it doesn't matter? Or that they feel it does, but ought not to?

Nintendo is involved to a small capacity, but Niantic split up into two companies awhile back. Nintendo has no current ties to the company selling the data. But obviously they were involved when it was being collected.

.....you cannot be this dumb, girlypop.

what I want to know is who the fuck owns Pokemon Go. this story isn't actually new: a year ago, Niantic Inc. sold Pokemon Go and all of their licensed games of its ilk to a Saudi Arabia company. question: why were they allowed to do that doesn't nintendo have to approve it did they approve it etc

i am so not mad at nintendo that other people regularly get mad at me for it

I will say though, this may be somewhat out of Nintendo's hands at this point. Niantic used Pokémon Go data to train an AI model, and then partnered with a defense contractor to use that model to guide drones. That partnership was announced last December.

i have no idea but it probably wouldn't take much. i don't think the current clusterfuck of wars are especially popular, and nintendo is the nice family-friendly etc game company

The way I keep hearing this myself…. I didn’t know there were enough brand loyalty purists to be so adamant about every possible technicality that removes accountability from Nintendo. They signed off on, controlled, and built sooooo much shit that led to this, the least they can do is address it???

to everyone saying this: while pokemon go is developed and operated by niantic, its published by the pokemon company, which is 33% owned by nintendo and ultimately controlled by a lot of nintendo execs. so, a statement from TPC abt this would be just as good as a statement from nitnendo imo.

"Dame desu yo"

Pokémon Go isn’t even owned by gamefreaks anymore right

Remember, when they make smashing hits, it's Nintendo, when they murder people, it's "akshually, the pokemon company".

It’s good that this is getting attention – again – but the last time people made the connection between Niantic and the defense establishment, it was enough to get me to uninstall it forever. It’s kinda sad that it got memory-holed enough that it’s a thing again.

[x] Doubt

I think I remember when ICE was making Pokémon memes, TPC’s eventual official response was a very milquetoast “we’re not a big fan of what they’re doing with our IP” and no legal action so, my hopes are not high :/

it's scary that this happened!!

niantic doesn't own pokemon go anymore, they basically left videogame development entirely to go into AI with the data they stole

I was thinking "What has Fire Emblem: Heroes done this time?!?"

They said…. $$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$

remember when they delayed the release of the advance wars reboot because the war in ukraine had recently started? that's so inconsequential and minor in comparison to this kotaku.com/nintendo-swi...

I should proof read better this was awful.

Sorry, they’re too busy filing a patent for a game mechanic where you push a button and it makes your character jump

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