{"id":22671,"date":"2018-05-29T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/318995"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:56:00","slug":"pokemon-company-annual-profits-drop-to-a-mere-80-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/pokemon-company-annual-profits-drop-to-a-mere-80-8-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Company annual profits drop to a mere $80.8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:\u00a0<\/strong>The Pokemon Company, purveyor of little monsters that theoretically fit in pockets, pocketed $80.8 million in profit during the fiscal year ended February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serkantoto.com\/2018\/05\/29\/pokemon-company-profit-2018\/\">according to Japanese game industry consultant Dr. Serkan Toto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While this year\u2019s fiscal year profits were impressive, it\u2019s a substantial drop from the previous year, which saw a record $145.6 million in profits thanks to a cut from <em>Pokemon Go<\/em> and the release of\u00a0<em>Pokemon Ultra Sun<\/em> and <em>Moon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Toto notes that $80.8 million is the second-highest annual net profit for The Pokemon Company. See how the last two years compare to the rest of the company&#8217;s financial history below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">From my company&#8217;s blog: &#8220;Pokemon Company&#8217;s Net Profit Drops, Still At US$80.8 Million Last Year&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IEEYroR034\">https:\/\/t.co\/IEEYroR034<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oq9K3TuyME\">pic.twitter.com\/oq9K3TuyME<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Serkan Toto (Kantan Games Inc.) (@serkantoto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/serkantoto\/status\/1001140175555121152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief:\u00a0The Pokemon Company, purveyor of little monsters that theoretically fit in pockets, pocketed $80.8 million in profit during the fiscal year ended February, according to Japanese game industry consultant Dr. Serkan Toto. While this year\u2019s fiscal year profits were impressive, it\u2019s a substantial drop from the previous year, which saw a record $145.6 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}