Nintendo's share of the profits of its equity-method affiliates, mainly The Pokémon Company, for the year to March 2017

What this is

Nintendo's share of the profits of its equity-method affiliates, mainly The Pokémon Company, for the year to March 2017: ¥20.3bn.

How it’s built

1. Read from the 'equity-method investment income' line of Nintendo's earnings release for the year to March 2018, which shows the prior year.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The peak of the 2016 boom; it fell to ¥10.3bn the next 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 20,271 10,318" (header 前連結会計年度; prior-year comparative 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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