What this is
When Pokémon licensing outside Asia moved in-house: Pokémon USA took it over from January 2006, after the 4Kids agreement expired at the end of 2005.
How it’s built
- Reported by Game Developer (then Gamasutra) in December 2005: the company “agreed not to renew the Pokemon representation agreement set to expire on December 31, 2005”.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
Pokémon USA’s president called it “a brand management decision”. Pokémon USA later became The Pokémon Company International.
Where it comes from
Pokemon USA Moves Licensing In-House Game Developer (Gamasutra) · 23 December 2005 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
has announced that it has agreed not to renew the Pokemon representation agreement set to expire on December 31, 2005.