What this is
Nintendo's equity-method income for the year to March 2017: ¥20.3bn, most of it its share of The Pokémon Company's profit.
How it’s built
- From Nintendo's consolidated results summary for the year to March 2018, filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which shows the prior year alongside.
- Nintendo's annual securities report for the year to March 2017 gives the same figure.
What we assumed
- Most of it is The Pokémon Company.The line covers all of Nintendo's equity-method affiliates, of which TPC is by far the largest.
Sanity check
The year Pokémon GO launched; the next year's figure was ¥10.3bn, half as much.
Where it comes from
The line in the source
持分法による投資利益 20,271 10,318 [EN: equity-method income] Related figures
The same measure, other periods