pokemon information

Pokémon Franchise Value

Pokémon was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996 and was originally released as a pair of interlink able rpg games which then grew into the second most valuable game based media franchise with many byproducts branches growing off the original tree of the game such as the trading cards.

According to http://www.vooks.net/story-18529-Pokemon-franchise-statistics-released-theyve-sold-a-lot.html a post dated at Oct 13, 2009 21:46 claims that the rpg games from the original Japanese only ‘Pokémon blue’ game for the game boy all the way to the latest versions of fire red and leaf green for the Nintendo DS that a 130 million copies have been sold overall

The site also claims that over 14 billion of the Pokémon trade card games have been sold as well as stating that the 12 Pokémon movies making over $680 million Australian dollars net profit in just Japan. The article also tells us that the company has roughly 3,500 other Pokémon products ranging from Pokémon dolls to Pokémon shirts and lunchboxes.

The company has amassed $24 billion Australian dollars worth of sales worldwide and $12 billion is from Japan alone.

The Pokémon franchise is owned by the Japanese gaming company Nintendo which had a net income of $2,523,070,032 for 2010.

However like all companies it has faced obstacles on its path such as the anime series episode ‘Denno Senshi Porygon’ which was removed from the series due to a scene which hospitalized 650 children with seizures a company apology statement was made and the episode was edited to remove the scene however many countries in the western world refused to air the new episode.

In the U.S three episodes where banned for a period of time after the 9/11 attacks, 2 because of their name and 1 because it contained the destruction of a city.