Sony and Micrsoft, both officially in the red it seems

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De85 said:

Wagram said:

DAMN, look how much Microsoft lost. No wonder there shareholders are pissed.

Those numbers have nothing at all to do with why MS' shareholders are unhappy.  They're upset because the ROI of MS' windows operation is something like 7 times higher than that of Entertainment and Devices and they think the money could be better invested elsewhere.

Investors never look at accumulated gains/losses from years past as a measure of how well the company is doing now, in the present.

95% true. But Investors are not checking how the company is doing now, they are betting on the future. Nobody cares what happened last year.

And there is something you have to think about:

1. EDD is not Xbox only. Zune, WinMobile, Surface, etc
2. Both built two very powerful brands. The Playstation brand is big. Sony spent a lot of time and resources for creating a new big brand. Xbox brand keeps getting bigger every day. Brand value is hard to quantify and not included in any way.

 

Nokia used to make rubber boots and nobody cares. True story btw.