How The Pokémon Company is paid for Pokémon GO

What this is

How The Pokémon Company is paid for Pokémon GO: a licence fee plus payment for helping develop and run the game; amounts not disclosed.

How it’s built

1. Read from Nintendo’s July 2016 stock-exchange notice on Pokémon GO’s effect on its results: as rights holder, The Pokémon Company “receives licence fees and compensation for development and operations cooperation.”

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

Says what kind of income it is, not how much; every GO revenue share used elsewhere in the research is an estimate.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

株式会社ポケモンは、ポケットモンスターの権利保有者としてライセンス料及び開発運営協力に伴う対価を受け取ります。

In English

TPC, as rights holder of Pokémon, receives licence fees and compensation for development/operations cooperation.

Where it’s used

• Deep dive · The Pokémon CompanyThe Pokémon GO year
• ProfileThe Pokémon Company
• ProfileLicensing and merchandise
• ProfileNintendo annual securities reports and results