What this is
Who publishes and sells the Pokémon games in Japan: Nintendo published them until 2001; from Ruby and Sapphire in 2002, The Pokémon Company is the publisher of record and Nintendo the seller.
How it’s built
- Read from the credits on The Pokémon Company's own title pages for each game, from Red and Green in 1996 to the 2026 FireRed and LeafGreen re-release.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
The company's first publisher credit appears on a 2001 spin-off, twenty months before Ruby and Sapphire, and every main-series game since carries the same split.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- FiledPublisher of record shift, 1996-2006
- ReportedA count of the games on The Pokémon Company’s official Japanese game list, by year and console, 1996 to 2026
- FiledA timeline of Pokémon’s big game launches from 1996 to 2026, placing each in The Pokémon Company’s financial year, which runs March to February
Show the working
- Read across 発売元/販売元/開発 lines on TPC title pages
- no arithmetic