Nintendo's share of the profits of its equity-method affiliates, mainly The Pokémon Company, for the year to March 2022

What this is

Nintendo's share of the profits of its equity-method affiliates, mainly The Pokémon Company, for the year to March 2022: ¥26.7bn.

How it’s built

1. Read from the 'equity-method investment income' line of Nintendo's earnings release for the year to March 2022.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

About four times the ¥6.6bn of the year before, Pokémon's 25th-anniversary year. 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 6,564 26,672" (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

Related figures

The same measure, other periods

• Filed1 April 2026..30 June 2026 (Q1 year to March 2027, cumulative)¥30.3bn
• Filed1 April 2026..30 September 2026 (H1 year to March 2027, cumulative)¥60.8bn
• Filed1 April 2025..30 June 2025 (Q1 year to March 2026, cumulative)¥20.8bn
• Filed1 April 2025..30 September 2025 (H1 year to March 2026, cumulative)¥44.2bn
• Filed1 April 2024..30 September 2024 (H1 year to March 2025, cumulative)¥12.8bn
• Filed1 April 2024..31 December 2024 (9M year to March 2025, cumulative)¥23.4bn