The Pokémon Company Makes $1.5 Billion Annually

The Pokémon Company International makes $1.5 billion a year from the sale of games, trading cards, movies, and toys, according to a License Global! report.

[XiSasukeUchiha]

Pokemon is profitable!

[cleft5]

This is why Nintendo will never be in financial danger. They own a lot of crazy profitable IPs.

[bmf7364]

Remember when they're stock plummitted earlier this year? They did a literal last minute announcement of 3rd gen remakes and everyone lost their shit. E3 2013, Smash 4, everyone lost their shit. Nintendo still has over $10 billion banked and can survive on a $250 million loss for 40 years. Nintendo is here to stay, and they're the biggest fuck-you to the PC Master Race and their retarded investors because no matter what happens, Nintendo is here and has the power to do whatever they want.

[Magicite]

un-believable!

[MightyNoX]

Understatement of the century.

[mikel1015]

They are literally a treasure chest that spawns its own gold for Nintendo

[-Foxtrot]

Maybe they can put some of that money toward a Pokemon Wii U RPG game

[Ripsta7th]

I wish... GF stated main Pokemon will stay on handhelds though so i wouldnt expect it anytime soon sadly

[Blackleg-sanji]

At least give me a pokemon snapU or an colleseum type game then

[Blackleg-sanji]

Was just about to say thay!!! Only good can come from it (if they do it right)

[Trunkz]

I think if the Super Smash Wii U + 3DS works well, maybe in the future they will try a Pokemon Wii U + 3DS game - same game only far better graphic and options on the Wii U version.

[TheFutureIsBlue]

That much money and they just now made a 3D Pokemon game? O.o. Seriously they should be able to make a console Pokemon game EASILY. It would sell and they have the $$$ to do it.

[TekoIie]

They should make a new style of Pokemon game for the Wii U.

It can be an RPG but don't give it the handhelds combat system. I would prefer it to be more of a single player experience.

[TomahawkX]

and this is why I get a good laugh at people thinking that Nintendo is doomed

[DiscoKid]

This.

[stavrami-mk2]

Mere pocket change

[YoungKingDoran]

Damn.... Spare some change there mate? I won't use it for alcohol, I swear

[Chrono]

1.5 isn't much.

[marloc_x]

Read the article, it is not pertaining to Sony's debt..

[link2Dpast]

Digimon had no chance. I remember the supposedly competition in my young days lol

[CloudyAero]

Don't get it wrong though. Digimon still have some golden gems.

[link2Dpast]

1st season was epic

[Zero-One]

Yes it did in terms of character development, story, and not having the monsters annoyingly spouting their names over and over again. And at least it has an ending.

[dota2champion]

Good. Now spend that on a pokemon MMORPG for wiiu

[itBourne]

Right, that much money and you cant throw some at an mmo. I would buy a Wii u just for that alone!

[Gezmoyassine]

I knew that Pokemon was a very lucrative IP but i didn't think it was that lucrative.That is some SERIOUS $$$

[HonestDragon]

That's very impressive. I'm glad that Pokemon is still doing so well ever since it debuted.

[contradictory]

i'd like an console version of R/B/Y for Wii U
not an MMORPG mind you, just normal pokemon that's outside of handhelds

although i'm not gonna complain about the handheld games either

[Rockefellow]

Is that 1.5 billion their gross profits, or is that before their expenditures? You could take a whole lot of companies' profits before deducting costs of operation and the like and it'd be equally impressive-- but if this is actually their profits, they've got to be making more money than 95% of other gaming companies with their own megafranchises.