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Press misstatement of equity gain as licensing fee, Oct 2016

Oct 2016

EstimateOur model or estimate. Treat it as an order of magnitude.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

The value

  • ¥12bn called 'licensing fees'; '19 percent cut' unattributed

Where it comes from

Pokémon Go update: Nintendo's revenue and Halloween fun 425business (syndicated) · October 2016 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

made ¥12 billion ($115 million) in licensing fees, largely from the game and its ties to the Pokémon Company International

In English

Contradicted by TDnet notice: ¥12.0bn is equity-method income. '19 percent' not sourced.