Pokémon Developer Game Freak To Relocate To Same Area As Nintendo's New Tokyo Offices

Good! Maybe they’ll get the input and/or talent by proximity to polish their games up to another level.

In before rumours of Nintendo buying Game Freak flood the internet

Let's hope they finally start making good games with Nintendo's direct supervision.

I hope the move isn't an inconvenience to any of their employees

Now, Nintendo will be close to Game Freak and if they mess something up, then Nintendo can punish Game Freak! Let the beatings commence!

Make better Pokémon games

I think this allows Nintendo a closer look into the studio and will likely result in them working even closer on future projects which isn't a bad thing.

@ToonStuff
Not like they have any important stuff to worry about anyway

I hope Miyamoto keeps hanging out at their office just staring and making everyone uncomfortable

The most successful game studio on the planet which has turned into the laziest. I don't want to even imagine what sort of money they have available to them in order to increase their staff so that they can take their games to the next level. To put it into comparison, they still only have around 140 members of staff... The guys who made Witcher 3, over 800!

Gamefreak is so broke after the hugely successful Sword/Shield backlash that they decided to stop paying rent and mooch off of Nintendo's new building smh

@Xylnox I just imagine Nintendo employees leaning out an office building and slapping a Game Freak employee around the head in the neighbouring building.

Maybe now the Pokémon company will use Nintendo’s in house engine since it is so close to each other

@RobotReptile tbh that might be the plan.

I mean, Sword and Shield DID sell 16 millions copies in only 2 mere months. While some might see an excuse to be lazy, others might see that much more reason to make sure future works aren't skewed up... or at least reason to make sure future works are indeed a true improvement over what came before.

@FragRed haha.

Great comments, guys -_-

This is pretty exciting news if true

Poor nintendo

I have a few questions regarding the office space move.
1. Why didn’t Nintendo condense their office space before now, if they knew it was “ inconvenient operation efficiency” wise?
2. Do we have a timeframe on when the moving between offices will be completed by?
3. Nintendo’s HQ is in Kyoto. Are both the HQ in Kyoto, and the area in Tokyo both software development areas?

Beep beep beep,

Back up the moving truck y'all! I do wonder about that one employee that has stuff all over their desk, we all know at least one.

I hope this means GameFreak will actually work with Nintendo on their games now.

@locky-mavo Hopefully under a watchful eye to not let the series get too stale.

Sword Shield were excellent games but Nintendo proper could add a level of polish to take the series to an even high level! Hopefully this re-location leads to closer co-operation between the two companies.

Frankly I don't know why GF would want to remain independent, they're clearly better off working with Nintendo as closely as possible.

The Pokémon games have been stale for awhile and I hope Nintendo can make them better through this proximity

This is a weird idea, but I hope that this leads to no only a bit more oversight from Nintendo, but also more overlap between Pokemon and other Nintendo franchises. Outside of Smash, Pokemon has always felt weirdly isolated from the rest of the Nintendo's IP's.

Could be they got a deal, need to expand to hire more people, and/or found it an easier option to communicate with the publisher of their main titles.