How big Pokémon’s two developer founders were next to The Pokémon Company’s Tokyo company, at the only dates their accounts are visible (2015 and 2020)

How it’s built

1. Creatures’ profit for the year to March 2020 (¥3.87bn) is 25% of the Tokyo company’s profit for the year to February 2020 (¥15.3bn); its net assets are 48% of the Tokyo company’s.
2. Game Freak’s profit for the year to March 2015 (¥1.64bn) is 80% of the Tokyo company’s that year, and its retained profits (¥9.97bn) slightly exceed the Tokyo company’s (¥9.77bn).
3. All inputs are from published results notices; the ratios are simple division.

What we assumed

• Years ending in March (founders) are compared with years ending a month earlier, in February (The Pokémon Company).The windows overlap for eleven of twelve months, so the comparison is fair for scale, not for exact timing.
• Only The Pokémon Company’s Tokyo company is used, not the whole group.It is the only part that publishes accounts; the overseas arms publish nothing, so the group would look larger.

Sanity check

These are snapshots from 2015 and 2020. By the year to February 2026 the Tokyo company’s profit was about ¥120bn, roughly 31 times Creatures’ 2020 profit, so the founders’ relative size has since shrunk or is unknown.

The value

• TPC parent year to February 2026 net profit: 120,056

Some detail is too fine to show here; it is kept in the trainer’s notes.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.

Where it’s used

• StoryThe founders
• ProfileThe Pokémon Company
• ProfileGame Freak
• ProfileCreatures Inc.