Ibai Llanos He is one of the great figures in Twitch. As a professional content creator and commentator, Llanos’ charisma has led him to be among the best representatives of the Amazon platform, and even to be able to create his own esports organization with a view to games like League of Legends and VALORANT.
Being an influencer with a great arrival, Llanos is always trying to bring news to his channel. Not long ago, he told his audience that he had been in talks with Nintendo to work on an campaign for the imminent arrival of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the new game from Game Freak, developers of the main games in the saga.
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Pokémon Legends aims to be one of the most ambitious projects of the studio, mainly because we will be in the Hisui region, an old version of the Sinnoh region, inspired by the Japan of the Meiji Restoration. As the name suggests, Arceus, a legendary Pokémon, will be very important in history. What makes Pokémon Legends “special” from previous Game Freak games is that the title bets on an open world, with different areas, and random encounters with different creatures.
Being one of the first Nintendo Switch games to be released during this 2022, Nintendo approached Ibai Llanos to find a way to work together and for the influencer to be one of the first to be able to try the game given the great arrival it has Worldwide. However, after a long conversation, Llanos has decided to reject the agreement with Nintendo.
What happened between Ibai Llanos and Nintendo?
Ibai brought bad news to his audience regarding the potential deal he was going to have with Nintendo. According to the streamer, the policies of the Japanese company ended up distancing him from being able to work with them.
Llanos assures that one of the conditions that Nintendo had set for him to be able to broadcast Pokémon Legends: Arceus, was that he would not be able to broadcast modified Pokémon games. The modified versions of Pokémon are quite well known and well received by the gaming community, something that Llanos himself knows perfectly well, which is why he made the difficult decision to give Nintendo a NO.
“It’s their way of working, I have no problem” Llanos pointed out, showing that, despite not agreeing with Ninty, he respects the conditions they tried to give him to broadcast the next Pokémon game.