https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go As shown, the developer and publisher is Niantic which is also the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go As shown, the developer and publisher is Niantic which is also the developer of Ingress. Perhaps you are referring to this snippet: > The concept for the game was conceived in 2014 by Satoru Iwata of Nintendo and Tsunekazu Ishihara of The Pokémon Company as an April Fools' Day collaboration with Google, called the Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge.[21] Ishihara was a fan of developer Niantic's previous transreality game, Ingress, and saw the game's concept as a perfect match for the Pokémon series.[22] Niantic used the crowdsourced[23] data from Ingress to populate the locations for PokéStops and gyms within Pokémon Go, and data from Google Maps to spawn specific Pokémon on certain terrain or environment.[24][25] So for background, The Pokémon Company is more or less a licensing body for handling licensing of the Pokémon IP and franchise. They collaborated with Niantic to meld an Ingress inspired augmented reality game with the Pokémon IP. Yes The Pokémon Company is a subsidiary of Nintendo so in a way Nintendo had a hand in the collaboration...but I would probably classify it as a 2nd or even 3rd order relationship. But that is a personal judgement call I suppose. In my mind, the augmented reality game design was wholly pioneered and executed by Niantic (not once but twice). The idea for melding said design with Pokémon IP came from the franchise licensing entity of The Pokémon Company which is a joint subsidiary of Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures who were the three businesses holding copyright on Pokémon at the time of its founding [1]. But again, somewhat of a personal view point. To me, I wouldn't necessarily attribute much related to Pokémon Go to Nintendo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company