Months after smacking down NFT bros, The Pokemon Company wants to hire a blockchain expert

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Just a few months after slapping down a knock-off NFT game, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Pokemon Company is looking for an NFT expert to help dr💙ive its future business strategy and lead partnerships with external develﷺopers.

The Pokemon Company wants to hire a corporate development principal, according to a highlighted by . This role will join the President and Corporate Development Office, the division that advises the company's long-term business strategy. Specifically, this corporate development principal will be in charge of initiatives to brainstorm new types of "Pokemon experiences" outside of the traditional 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Game Freak RPGs.

Many of the requested qualifications are what you'd expect from a corporate job listing, including calls for a decade of experience and "self-starter" initiative. The lis🔥ting does have a few more specific requests, though, calling for someone with a "deep knowledge and understanding of Web3, including blockchain technologies and NFT, and/or metaverse," and who is "deeply connected to a network of investors and entrepreneurs" in the Web3 and metaverse space. It also notes that the successful applicant will "identify, analyze, monitor, and build relationships with external co-development partners with unique technology to support the implementation of new ideas." 

The heads of The Pokemon Company are seemingly interested in partnering with external developers on blockchain-based games, or at least exploring the possibility, either ignoring or ignorant of the intense backlash against NFTs from gamers. In December 2022, the company itself ﷺgave a legal smackdown to a knock-off Pokemon 𒈔NFT game, saying at the time that "The Pokemon Company and Nintendo had made a delib💙erate decision not to launch any Pokemon NFTs." But the times may be a-changing.

While companies like Ubisoft have abandoned the NFT gold rush after the abject failure of experiments like Ghost Recon Breakpoint's Digits, it seems that some Japan-led gaming companies in particular are deepening their investments in a technology and business model that everyone outside of Silicon Valley and Wall Street seems to hate. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Konami wants NFTs, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Square Enix (still) wants NFTs, and now it seems The Pokemon C♔ompany wants in on the blo⛎ckchain, too.

We've seen the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Pokemon games, and now it's time to prepare for the worst to go down an even darker hole.

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knigꦏhts of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.