Who Owns Pokemon?

trials of champions
1 min readApr 2, 2020

Most think the answer is simply Nintendo but in actuality there is a lot of nuance in giving a clear answer. Pokemon is owned by The Pokemon Company, and The Pokemon Company is evenly owned by three other companies:

  1. Nintendo — 33%
  2. Game Freak — 33%
  3. Creatures — 33%

However Nintendo also owns an undisclosed amount of Creatures (rumored to be more than 50%)…

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