Experts from Futura Digital have prepared a column for App2Top about an emerging legal conflict between Nintendo, its affiliate The Pokémon Company, and Pocketpair, who released the multiplatform blockbuster Palworld earlier this year.

The studio Pocketpair, known for developing Palworld, announced that it will contest the patent lawsuit filed against it by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. The studio aims to prove its innocence and in doing so, protect other indie developers from attempts to stifle their creative ideas.

Pocketpair Studios is facing a legal battle. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court, accusing the developers of Palworld of infringing on their patents.

Pokémon Sleep is a mobile game that analyzes sleep and helps improve its quality. A week before its first anniversary, the project surpassed 100 million dollars in revenue, reports PocketGamer, citing the analytics service AppMagic.

The Japanese The Pokémon Company will help residents of Hawaii affected by forest fires. She announced a donation of $200,000 through the humanitarian initiative GlobalGiving.

The Japanese The Pokémon Company has updated statistics in the section dedicated to the Pokémon franchise. In it, the company indicated that as of March 31, 2023, over 480 million copies of Pokemon games were delivered to stores.

The owners of the Pokémon brand have sued the studios that operate the Pocket Monster Reissue mobile game.

The company decided to do so in honor of the anniversary of the Pokémon series of games — at the beginning of the year that turned 25 years old.

The Japanese The Pokémon Company has updated the section in which it shares figures for its games. According to recent data, by March 31, 2022, it had shipped over 440 million copies of games related to pocket monsters.

Игровой аналитик Серкан Тото (Serkan Toto) написал о том, как прошел 2021 год для японской The Pokémon Company. Год оказался успешным. По меньшей мере три финансовых показателя хорошо выросли (об остальных в отчете не сказано).

Gaming companies around the world are actively supporting Ukraine. In particular, money for humanitarian aid was allocated by Ubisoft, Unity and 11 bit studios. We looked at who else has recently decided to make similar donations. UPDATED: Added information about Room 8 Group.

A mobile version of the pocket monster strategy game from The Pokémon Company and Tencent is available from September 22. On the fifth day, the game topped the world download charts in app stores.

Chinese major Tencent has signed a contract with The Pokémon Company. The companies will work together to create and bring to market new Pokemon games.

The cross-platform action-adventure game with “cubic” graphics Pokémon Quest earned $8 million in the first month after its release. The main revenue came in the first week after the release of the game, then the spending of gamers decreased by an order of magnitude.

Mobile hit Pokémon GO studio Niantic has passed the milestone of 800 million downloads. This was announced by the head of The Pokémon Company publishing house Tsunekazu Ishihara at a press conference in Tokyo.

The success of Pokémon GO has had a strong impact on the Pokémon Company: its just-announced titles, announced for the Nintendo Switch, are somehow repelled by the development of Niantic.

The net profit of the publisher of the Pokémon franchise in 2017 decreased by 55%, but still became the second largest in the history of the company. This was reported by game analyst Serkan Toto, referring to information from the Japanese government publication Official Gazette.

The Pokémon Company’s net profit for 2016 amounted to $143 million, an increase of 26 times compared to the previous year.

Niantic’s Pokemon game revenues have grown significantly since its release in Japan. The total downloads of the game have also grown seriously recently. According to various estimates, they range from 60 million to 75 million.