What this is
Nintendo’s share of affiliate profit, chiefly The Pokémon Company, as a share of its pre-tax recurring profit, year to March 2015: 1.35%.
How it’s built
- Divided Nintendo’s ¥952m share of affiliate profit by its ¥70.5bn ordinary profit, both from its filings.
What we assumed
- Affiliate profit is treated as Pokémon.Nintendo reports all affiliates together; The Pokémon Company is the main one.
Sanity check
The starting point of the series: before 2016, The Pokémon Company contributed almost nothing to Nintendo’s profit.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- 952/70,530
Related figures
The same measure, other periods