Pokémon USA and Pokémon UK merge: Globally under "The Pokémon Company International"

[Shinx3000]

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Lately its been going JAP > USA > AUS > EUR

Why do our UK people think they will get same-time releases? Last time I checked the game still had to be translated into several different languages for the EU version.

Thinking because the USA version of games does not need to be translated to be brought out in the UK? But translating the games into other languages takes longer, thats why Europe gets games last.

 

[Maxim Posthumus]

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I wonder if that'll affect non-English translations in any way...

 

[ii kanji]

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Can someone explain please what this actually means for the Uk?

 

[Jägerbomb]

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Probably nothing much. It's probably easier to manage one large Pokemon company then it is to manage two semi-large ones.

 

[Doctor Oak]

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Can someone explain please what this actually means for the Uk?

A) Games will NOT be released here at the same time as in the states. That's NOT PCI's remit, that's still NOE's. Games will be translated and released here when NOE chooses to, there will be no change.

B) It means that after a nice run with Shaymin this easter, we're fucked for events after this. Why does anyone think that going from having a separate company dedicated to controlling events and marketing in the UK to having a single company that simply has the UK as a teeny, tiny part of their control means better things for us? It's very obvious that we'll be considered an extremely minor concern and we'll be lucky to get anything more from here on out.

As if the organisation here wasn't pitiful enough, this is the deathnell of it at all - if the Americans can't even cater for Canada decently, what makes anyone think they'll give a toss about such a tiny little nation like the UK?

I'd say we'll be damned lucky to get Arceus next year now...

 

[ii kanji]

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Considering I never even knew there was a Pokemon company for the Uk, from the sounds of it, things aren't going to get better...great

 

[J J M]

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It's great that they finally are being integrated into one company. It's also great that the UK is getting some recognition.

 

[Doctor Oak]

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It's great that they finally are being integrated into one company. It's also great that the UK is getting some recognition.

How is this the UK getting some recognition? This is the UK's recognition as part of the Pokemon fandom being revoked. Now the UK - not to mention the rest of Europe - has absolutely no say in how the franchise is marketed and supported here. Everything is being dealt with through the Americans if they can be bothered.

What should have happened is taking PUK and making it literally just for the UK, and set up a new arm for the rest of Europe.

This is just killing any chance whatsoever of the UK getting any 'recognition' at all.

 

[Valdez]

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So Canada and Australia are screwed? In terms of events I mean.

Canada's always been screwed. I can only remember one event, and that's the upcoming one.

 

[Charzard03]

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this is pretty interesting, hopefully the uk will get more events ect, the pokemon uk website hasnt been updated in a very long time and the shaymin event has only just hit england. hopefully we'll get more recognition now that this has happened and pokemon will become a big hit again here!

 

[The Outrage]

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So Canada and Australia are screwed? In terms of events I mean.

Well its not like there was ever Pokemon Canada, its Pokemon USA's responsibility.

Hopefully they'll do more emphasis on the international part...

...doubt it.

 

[Mitsuru]

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What is life but a game of chess? You play against Fate (for lack of a better word) and sometimes you get lucky and other times your not so lucky...

Yes. Life, or rather human actions, are like chess. If a king does not lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow? An interesting chess strategy, however, in real life that simple truth is often ignored and replaced with false thoughts of one's own worth above others. Petty values like that reveal their bravado when times come to it. A lesson could be taught to those who want such power as administratorship from that philosophy.

But this isn't the place for this talk.

If all Pokémon Companies were unified, they could have several departments working on translating the Japanese scripts at the same time so that game releases would have less of a gap for different countries. But they won't do it because somebody else thought of it first .

 

[Doctor Oak]

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If all Pokémon Companies were unified, they could have several departments working on translating the Japanese scripts at the same time so that game releases would have less of a gap for different countries. But they won't do it because somebody else thought of it first .

They wouldn't do it because:

A) That's not their job - that's Nintendo's job
B) They already do that. Not always in the case of Pokemon, but NOE in general does translate straight from the Japanese games in a lot of cases these days. I'd assume for Pokemon, they simply work on the European languages and let the Americans run with their English translation (probably in large part because PUSA does have to come up with the official names etc for use in the translation) - but there are quite a few first party games out there where the English translation has been handled by NOE AND NOA at the same times...

 

[ウォレスのルネシティ]

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An interesting move, I might say. :/

 

[Pidgeot]

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I'm pretty sure the anime is being effected by this- airing in UK before USA.

 

[Trainer-c]

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I'm pretty sure the anime is being effected by this- airing in UK before USA.

TPCI does not decide when episodes of the anime air. The networks decide when to air the episodes.

 

[Jägerbomb]

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This is probably more of a takeover then anything else (by PUSA).

 

[Trainer-c]

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It can't be a takeover because they are all the same company in the first place. Pokémon USA is the US branch of The Pokémon Company, Pokémon UK was Poémon USA's office in Europe.

Pokémon USA is responsible for the handling of the brand in all markets outside of Asia (Because The Pokémon Company handles marketing throughout Asia) 'merger' is a poor choice of words because all the locations are branches of The Pokémon Company. Squaresoft and Enix had a merger, Pokémon USA and Pokémon UK are simply changing names. Day to day operations at both locations will pretty much remain unchanged.

 

[ウォレスのルネシティ]

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I'm pretty sure the anime is being effected by this- airing in UK before USA.

Who cares? The anime has been so far gone since "Pasta La Vista"'s closing. Just hope that online streamers will keep up with their Japanese episodes.....

 

[Doctor Oak]

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It can't be a takeover because they are all the same company in the first place. Pokémon USA is the US branch of The Pokémon Company, Pokémon UK was Poémon USA's office in Europe.

Pokémon USA is responsible for the handling of the brand in all markets outside of Asia (Because The Pokémon Company handles marketing throughout Asia) 'merger' is a poor choice of words because all the locations are branches of The Pokémon Company. Squaresoft and Enix had a merger, Pokémon USA and Pokémon UK are simply changing names. Day to day operations at both locations will pretty much remain unchanged.

Not quite accurate. The UK branch had its own head of operations and was responsible for organising what marketing and events were carried out throughout Europe.

Now, however, the branch is controlled exclusively by the current PUSA president and what occurs in the branch will be controlled by what was PUSA.

I somehow doubt that transferring all control to another continent wouldn't effect the day-to-day operations of the UK branch. Especially when that other continent is considered the 'primary' userbase and Europe a minor concern.