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 2018: 5.2%.
How it’s built
- Divided Nintendo’s ¥10.3bn share of affiliate profit by its ¥199.4bn 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
Nintendo’s own profit quadrupled in the Switch’s first full year, shrinking the share.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- 10,318/199,356
Related figures
The same measure, other periods