Nintendo's equity-method income for the year to March 2026

What this is

Nintendo's equity-method income for the year to March 2026: ¥82.8bn, up from ¥35.1bn the year before.

How it’s built

1. Read from Nintendo's annual securities report for the year to March 2026, filed in June 2026.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The line covers all Nintendo's equity-method affiliates, of which The Pokémon Company is by far the largest; it is Nintendo's share, not the affiliates' whole profit.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

持分法による投資利益 35,125 82,792

Where it’s used

• StoryNintendo
• Chart · NintendoNintendo’s booked share of affiliate profit now matches its overseas Pokémon game revenue in a launch year
• Chart · NintendoNintendo’s share of affiliate profit more than doubled last year, and this year’s first half is already three-quarters of it

Related figures

The same measure, other periods

• FiledYear to March 2025 (Apr 2024-Mar 2025)¥35.1bn
• FiledYear to March 2024 (Apr 2023-Mar 2024)¥30.1bn
• FiledYear to March 2023 (Apr 2022-Mar 2023)¥26.6bn
• FiledYear to March 2022 (Apr 2021-Mar 2022)¥26.7bn
• FiledYear to March 2021 (Apr 2020-Mar 2021)¥6.6bn
• FiledYear to March 2020 (Apr 2019-Mar 2020)¥7.9bn