I don't get why Nintendo can't see the goldmine of opportunity with Hacks like these. It's not like it hasn't been proven that fan/company co-op games can't work(case and point Sega-Hatsune Miku Project Diva). If they were to actually try it, not only are fans pleased because they feel their voices have been heard, it also helps the company because they get a boost in sales, as people, regardless of Hacks will go try the original for themselves! When you treat fans like crap for basically giving you "fanart"(I'll loosely define it as that-very) it only turns them off from your product more. It's like getting upset if someone drew a Fanart or and OC for your series because they love it so much. It makes you appear to be immature. How Nintendo misses this point astounds me. For example, I love Dark Rising for it's challenge, but I'm always going to go back to Black and White. I don't just magically leave a regular game for a fan one. It just doesn't work that way. I might like the fan one better, but it's all preference in the end, and in most cases, people want the original games.
This wasn't an attempt to cash in on the Pokemon franchise(the game was made for free and would've been downloaded FOR FREE), fans weren't trying to "slander" Nintendo or hurt their business. In fact, it was the complete opposite. They wanted Pokemon to grow. The reasons why games like these even exist is because people love the franchises and BECAUSE people want to improve them. I could get Nintendo more if these people were making a profit off their own game and just stealing stuff and calling it their own, but they weren't. All these fans were trying to do was pay homage to their favorite franchise and they got punished for it.
In all honesty Nintendo has the legal rights to take the game down, no if's, and's, or but's, the problem is that they really shouldn't. Rom Hackers put plenty of time into their games and I can say they deserve a lot of credit for what they have to do to make a decent Hack. How does Nintendo think that these same people who make the games are going to say anything nice about them at all after this now? Did they just forget that these hackers are people who also sometimes spend free time developing games? Seriously.
It's a shame because Nintendo is a group of people too and I'm sure their not "conniving evil businessmen" who twirl their hands looking to make more money. I'm sure they put a lot of effort into the products they release and I want to hope they see this is a gold mine for them, but at the moment they really appear anti-consumer, which is not a good thing in the slightest.