The two parts that manage the video game side are Nintendo (whose interest it is to keep Pokemon exclusive) and Game Freak (whose main publisher is Nintendo and who very much needs Nintendo’s cooperation to stay alive) have little to no interest in expanding the games to other platforms. And considering Nintendo was the publisher of the Pokemon games before the Pokemon company even existed they might’ve snuck into some joint venture agreement or IP agreement or whatever that Nintendo gets the final word on what platform the games are released on.
So them having only partial ownership of the Pokemon company doesn’t mean they can’t have full control over where the games get released.
Same reason why Mario and Zelda aren’t on those platforms.
It’s my understanding that those games are wholly owned by Nintendo, whereas Pokemon is only partially owned.
The two parts that manage the video game side are Nintendo (whose interest it is to keep Pokemon exclusive) and Game Freak (whose main publisher is Nintendo and who very much needs Nintendo’s cooperation to stay alive) have little to no interest in expanding the games to other platforms. And considering Nintendo was the publisher of the Pokemon games before the Pokemon company even existed they might’ve snuck into some joint venture agreement or IP agreement or whatever that Nintendo gets the final word on what platform the games are released on.
So them having only partial ownership of the Pokemon company doesn’t mean they can’t have full control over where the games get released.
Partially owned still counts.