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In The Pokémon Company’s financial results for the fiscal year ending February 2026, revenue reached approximately ¥531.428 billion — about 4.4 times what it was five years ago. Net profit has also grown roughly 13.6-fold over eight years, surpassing ¥120 billion, numbers that highlight just how lucrative the Pokémon brand has become. The news sparked discussion on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, where posters compared the figures to “Palworld,” which had been a hot topic around the same time, debated Pokémon’s merits as a finished game, and argued over whether Pokémon should keep sticking to Nintendo platforms.
The Pokémon Company’s revenue grew about 4.4x in five years, reaching roughly ¥531.4 billion for the fiscal year ending February 2026. Net profit is “up about 13.6x” over eight years, topping ¥120 billion
Source: news.denfaminicogamer.jp / Original article here
What people said
Show us the results of that 'Mega Finale'
Haven't seen that one-note gag in a while lol, didn't know people still did that lol
Are you crying right now?
Bold of it to even try to compete lol
Shh! You'll summon the Pokémon fanboys!
Come on, leave him alone lmao
They've been in the red for ages already
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• Full-release sales: 1.8 million copies
• Trading cards flopped hard
• Streamers hate it, nobody's playing it on stream
• Pokémon — the thing it was supposed to crush — just posted a massive revenue jump
Things are looking a bit rough, huh?
Sounds like you can't tell the full release apart from Early Access
Very 'old-school console gamer' of you
⚡🐭 A mouse that can't use electricity is just a mouse
It dropped clean off the Amazon rankings
Seriously? lol
Well yeah. A TCG nobody's buying isn't worth anything
If it had gone with original designs, it could've been legendary
'Papers over everything with fun' lmaooo you just can't admit Palworld actually won so you're spouting nonsense like this lmaooo
This one line alone is confusing enough to start its own thread lmaooo
What are you talking about? Does Sakuna have anything to do with Pokémon?
That's because Nintendo is holding them back
They should just smack Nintendo with a stack of dividend cash and break free already
If anything, they're expanding in the very areas that looked like they'd shrink once that ended
They don't need to rely on the anime anymore
The Pokémon Company and Game Freak should break free from Nintendo and bring Pokémon to PC/PlayStation
We've got Palworld now, which apparently already surpasses Pokémon
No need to bother with Pokémon anymore, right?
Pokémon cards have basically become something kids can't even afford to buy anymore
Probably fine — just going about daily life you run into regional Pokémon tie-ins and theme park stuff everywhere
If anything, it's basically impossible to live your life without bumping into Pokémon somehow
Pokémon has quite a few mobile games too, you know
You do need games and anime to fill in the gaps though.
Ignore kids and you end up abandoned like some hardware that became too much of a barrier to get into
It's impressive that it stays a hot topic for this long
Truly the world's number one IP
There was a Pokémon stamp rally going on until recently, so they were probably fuming every time they went to the station
Background and Talking Points
The article stems from The Pokémon Company’s financial results for the fiscal year ending February 2026: revenue of ¥531.428 billion, and net profit up roughly 13.6-fold over eight years to top ¥120 billion. That revenue figure isn’t just console game sales — it also includes trading cards, mobile games, and licensing income from theme parks and stamp rallies, so it can’t simply be reduced to unit-sales numbers. In the thread, many posts compared these figures to “Palworld,” which had been trending around the same time, but the two companies’ revenue structures are different enough that a direct comparison doesn’t really hold up. Some comments also confused Palworld’s full-release sales with its Early Access sales. There were calls for Pokémon to break away from Nintendo, but the discussion didn’t fully acknowledge that the IP has already expanded well beyond home consoles — into mobile games, trading cards, and real-world event tie-ins.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “The Pokémon Company’s revenue up “about 4.4x” in five years. ¥531.428 billion for the fiscal year ending February 2026.”
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