Pokémon Go has Nintendo looking vibrant again, but the company doesn’t want you to get big ideas about what Pikachu is doing to its bank account.
In a note to shareholders, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima explained that the publisher will only get a minor bump in its income from the mega-lucrative Pokémon Go. The company is not revising its financial forecast for the quarter that it previously set on April 27. Nintendo’s stock price has more than doubled to $265 a share since Pokémon Go debuted earlier this month. The GPS-powered location-based game is the top-grossing iOS and Android app in the $36.9 billion mobile gaming industry, but the company wants investors to know that several other entities have rights to that money before it’ll see it.
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