PonyStation4
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I didn't say they own any part of GameFreak. But they do own a third of the company that owns the license, which means they definitely also have a say over how that license is used in games.
Again, why would Nintendo issue this apology and a promise to improve the performance of the game if it's an equivalent situation to any 3rd party game?
"We take the feedback from players seriously and are working on improvements to the games."
This is a statement by Nintendo. They wouldn't make such a statement about a 3rd party game, because it wouldn't be up to them to fix the game (just like it wasn't up to Sony to fix CP2077 - the reason they temporarily removed it from sale was because CDPR were sending a ton of refund demands their way).
It's not the same situation (it's also not the same as a typical 1st party game, but yeah).
Gamefreaks Masuda stated during the release of Sword/Shield that Nintendo is not involved in development and doesn't set deadlines for them. Gamefreak funds and develops their games by themselves, while Creatures handles modelling and TPC handles the translations. If TPC wants the game on other platforms then they can do it, Nintendo only owns a minority stake in the IP
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