Hiku said:
Biggerboat1 said:
Well, you said "I want to point out that comparing a fairly straight forward online service platform to a company like Amazon is not a good comparison to make. @Biggerboat1"
That's why I thought it prudent to point out that I wasn't comparing those 2 companies, but simply pointing out that revenue is not a predictor of profit. Hell, I could have picked KFC or Adidas.
Pointing out that it was not a good comparison, to me isn't a valid point, as I wasn't comparing them in the first place...
No biggie though!
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Well like I said, I didn't misunderstand why you posted that figure. And my point wasn't related to whether you want to call it a comparison or not, so that's just arguing semantics.
You could have picked another example, sure, but you chose one where the profit was not even 0,1% of the revenue.
That's not an example relevant to PSN today, because it's not the kind of business model that takes risks with their investments like that.
Their entire gaming sector does, but not 'PSN alone', which is the subject.
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I picked that example just to illustrate how widely revenue & profit can vary - it wouldn't have made for as effective a point if I picked an example where revenue & profit were closer.
It's clear that some people (not you) still don't get that revenue in and of itself isn't an indicator of success, so picking an extreme example was the best way I could think to show this.
Anyway, we're chasing our tails here. This whole thing would be much easier if we simply knew PSN's profit for the same period :)
