What this is
Who received Pokémon merchandise royalties outside Asia over time: Nintendo of America as licensor of record to 2000, The Pokémon Company's side as payee from 2001, and its US arm licensing in-house from 2006.
How it’s built
- Assembled from the payee each document names: 4Kids' filings and licence agreements naming Nintendo of America up to 2000.
- From 2001, 4Kids' filings describe The Pokémon Company's side as the recipient and payee of merchandise, broadcast and home video proceeds, and the master toy minimum was owed to The Pokémon Company's US company.
- From 2006 Pokémon USA, now The Pokémon Company International, took over licensing outside Asia.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
No Nintendo filing shows a share of merchandise royalty, which fits the payee moving to The Pokémon Company's side.
The value
- 2006-: Pokemon USA (TPCi) licenses in-house outside Asia
Some detail is too fine to show here; it is kept in the trainer’s notes.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- assembly of payee statements by period