What this is
Nintendo’s July 2016 statement on how The Pokémon Company earns from Pokémon GO: as rights holder it receives licence fees and payment for helping develop and run the game.
How it’s built
- Read from Nintendo’s Japanese stock-exchange disclosure of 22 July 2016 on GO’s effect on its forecasts. It says Niantic develops and distributes the app, and names the Tokyo company as the recipient.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
It names the Tokyo company specifically, not the overseas arm. It gives no rate, no revenue basis and nothing about any fee to Nintendo.
Where it comes from
Japanese-language document: The Pokémon Company, 2016 Nintendo Co., Ltd. (TDnet) · 22 July 2016 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
当アプリは、米国法人Niantic, Inc.が開発を行い配信しており、当社の関連会社である株式会社ポケモンは、ポケットモンスターの権利保有者としてライセンス料及び開発運営協力に伴う対価を受け取ります。