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Retail sales of licensed Pokémon products in 2014 as reported from License Global’s ranking

$2bn 2014

ReportedA trade-ranking figure relayed by fan press.

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.

What this is

Retail sales of licensed Pokémon products in 2014 as reported from License Global’s ranking: $2 billion.

How it’s built

  1. Reported by Perfectly Nintendo, a fan-news site, covering License Global’s May 2015 list: sales “have reached 2 billion dollars at retail, in 2014”.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The same article gives $1.5bn for 2013. The original ranking was not seen.

Where it comes from

The Pokemon Company: over 2 billion sales at retail Perfectly Nintendo · 6 May 2015 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

global sales for The Pokémon Company (the company dealing with the Pokémon IP) have reached 2 billion dollars at retail, in 2014.

Where it’s used

Related figures

The same measure, other periods