PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Light Signs of Developer Relations

"A contemporary Famicom publisher described Nintendo receiving roughly 30 percent of a game’s retail price, including cartridge manufacturing costs."

Former Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto recalls a typical 10,000-yen Famicom game allocating about 3,000 yen to Nintendo, giving direct historical support to a roughly 30-percent platform-and-manufacturing take.