Lots of devs do this. Naughty Dog, who for a long while was exclusive to Playstation, loves to put Playstations in their games.
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Ubisoft put an entire mission in Watch Dogs 2 about uncovering and leaking details about a game in development by Ubisoft.
Reminds me of Uncharted Thief’s end. At the end of the game you can play Crash Bandicoot on the PS1 (or PS2) in the game itself. So a game in a game.
The early Animal Crossings had working NES games in them you could get as in game items. Back before Nintendo learned they could endlessly monetize them. There's an update for the latest Animal Crossing that adds them in, but they require a Nintendo Online subscription to play them, because if you aren't paying rent for 3 decade old video games, what are you even doing?
You play it at the beginning, as well!
Every Pokémon game has their current console in your room.
Ah, I guess I've been out of the game for a while then...
My Pokemon White 2 has Wiis in the room and I just visited Game Freak because they self insert in every game, lol
Donkey Kong Country 3 for SNES had one of the auxiliary Kongs playing an N64.
The Steam version of Steamworld Dig had a hidden area with an old bombed-out games store with posters for Half Life 3.
Game Freak isn't Nintendo. It'd be like seeing a Playstation reference in a Square Enix game.
For the last decades they are a second party developer at best. And Nintendo owns 1/3 of the Pokémon Company. And another third is owned by Creatures which is independent from Nintendo only on paper.
There were a lot of upset investors who bought Nintendo stock when Pokémon Go launched, to learn The Pokémon Company was not public, or the same entity.
Lmao
It's more like seeing a PlayStation reference in a Naughty Dog game.