What this is
Nintendo’s share of profit from its equity-method affiliates, mainly The Pokémon Company, for the year to March 2017: ¥20.3bn.
How it’s built
- Read from the income statement in Nintendo’s annual securities report for that year, via IRBANK, a site that mirrors Japan’s official filing system.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
Up from ¥1.9bn the year before. It covers four affiliates, including the Seattle Mariners’ operator, and is ¥6.8bn more than 32% of the affiliates’ combined profit would give.
Where it comes from
Annual securities report: Nintendo, 2017 Nintendo Co., Ltd. / EDINET · 30 June 2017
The line in the source
持分法による投資利益 1,887 20,271 In English
Equity-method investment income: 20,271 (current year, 当連結会計年度).
Where it’s used
Related figures
The same measure, other periods