Nintendo's share of the profits of its equity-method affiliates, mainly The Pokémon Company, for the year to March 2019

What this is

Nintendo's share of the profits of its equity-method affiliates, mainly The Pokémon Company, for the year to March 2019: ¥6.9bn.

How it’s built

1. Read from the 'equity-method investment income' line of Nintendo's earnings release for the year to March 2019.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

Down from ¥10.3bn the year before. Covers all Nintendo's affiliates, not The Pokémon Company alone, and it is a share of profit booked, not cash received.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

"持分法による投資利益 10,318 6,949" (header 当連結会計年度; current column)

Where it’s used

• StoryNintendo
• Chart · NintendoNintendo’s booked share of affiliate profit now matches its overseas Pokémon game revenue in a launch year
• Chart · NintendoNintendo’s share of affiliate profit more than doubled last year, and this year’s first half is already three-quarters of it

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