What this is
How the site treats a possible royalty from Nintendo to The Pokémon Company on game sales outside Japan: anywhere from zero to about ¥27.8bn for the year to March 2026, with no central figure.
How it’s built
- Earlier work assumed a royalty of 10–30% of Nintendo's overseas Pokémon game sales. Nintendo's filings name no such contract or payment, so the lower end is set to zero.
- Total assumed payments from Nintendo to TPC for that year then range from ¥15.5bn to ¥51.1bn.
What we assumed
- Zero is the floor and there is no best guess.No document shows a royalty, and none rules one out, so the site does not state that Nintendo pays one.
Sanity check
Nintendo's filings describe the trade only as TPC buying products and commissioning manufacturing, which is consistent with a zero floor.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
Show the working
- Rate: [0, 0.30], no central; 10–30% kept only as conditional-on-royalty band
- B total PL year to March 2026: 9,326 to 44,093
- TPC year to February 2026 overseas royalty: 0 to 26,320
- a_total low − overseas low: 14,052 − 3,852 = 10,200
- 34,334 − 10,892 = 23,442
- 30,586 − 8,072 = 22,514
- 22,487 − 6,943 = 15,544
- b FY3/26 16,269 − 6,943 = 9,326
Where it’s used
- StoryVideo games
- StoryNintendo
- StoryThe Pokémon Company
- Deep dive · Licensing & merchThe licensees who pay the royalty mostly say nothing
- Chart · Video gamesPlayers paid at least ¥147bn for console Pokémon games; ¥16–51bn of it reached The Pokémon Company
- Chart · NintendoNintendo paid The Pokémon Company an estimated ¥16–23bn for games in Japan last year; no filing shows a royalty on top
- Chart · The Pokémon CompanyThe three largest lines are ones The Pokémon Company sells itself