What this is
Estimated payments from Nintendo to The Pokémon Company for Pokémon games, by year: for the year to March 2026, about ¥16–51bn.
How it’s built
- Method (a): a 10–30% royalty on Nintendo’s estimated overseas Pokémon software revenue, plus 50–75% of Japan list-price sales: ¥22.5–51.1bn.
- Method (b): Japan payment on boxed copies only, with download sales passed through outside Nintendo’s accounts: ¥16.3–44.1bn plus ¥6.5–8.7bn passed through.
What we assumed
- Nintendo pays a 10–30% royalty overseas.No rate is disclosed and the research gives no direct evidence for it; this range drives most of the spread.
- In Japan, The Pokémon Company gets 50–75% of list price.A working assumption; the actual split is not disclosed.
- Nintendo’s overseas Pokémon software revenue is as estimated.It is itself a model from unit sales and list prices.
Sanity check
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company disclose no payment between them. The two methods give overlapping but different ranges, so the structure is genuinely unknown.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- EstimateNintendo payments to TPC estimate, year to March 2017, year to March 2022, year to March 2023, year to March 2026
- EstimateEstimated revenue Nintendo earns from selling Pokémon games outside Japan, each year from 2017 to 2026. For the year to March 2026
Show the working
- (a) as : royalty 10–30% of + 50–75% of Japan list. (b): Japan publisher payment only on package (p × list × 0.50–0.75)
- eShop proceeds pass to TPC as an agent remittan
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