What this is
Nintendo’s equity-method income, mainly from The Pokémon Company, for its year to March 2017: ¥20.3bn, up from ¥1.9bn.
How it’s built
- Read from Nintendo’s earnings summary for the year to March 2017.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
Includes three small affiliates as well; Nintendo’s share is 32%, so it implies about ¥63bn of affiliate profit.
Where it comes from
The line in the source
株式会社ポケモンなどに係る持分法による投資利益202億円を計上したことにより In English
Booked ¥20.2bn (¥20,271m vs ¥1,887m prior year).