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MrT-Tar on 13 November 2010

Both Sony and to a lesser degree Nintendo slightly lower than I thought




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dunno001 on 13 November 2010
Legend11 said:

VGChartz should make a video game CEO sim and get on that list

The possibilities are endless...

-Should you overwork staff and not pay them overtime and risk bad press (or even a costly lawsuit) or take your chances and hope that your game doesn't miss deadline and budget? 

-If you're running a Japanese company do you try to make more Western friendly game by:

a) Handing over a key franchise to a Western developer
b) Buying a struggling Western studio and try to reboot their IP
c) Have your own developers try to put a Western spin on your games
d) Or do nothing and hope you don't lose all your marketshare to Gears of Duty 11

-Are you going to be a ruthless businessman that milks franchises for all their worth and run the risk of killing them prematurely or do you create lots of new IP and hope something sticks?

-Will your bribery get your game those golden 10s or will it get exposed all over the Internet?

...

This sounds like it would be an interesting game, actually. And I could see it now... we make more money than Activision! :P



-dunno001

-On a quest for the truly perfect game; I don't think it exists...

Solid_Snake4RD on 13 November 2010
Grimes said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
trunkswd said:

Sony is a whole lot smaller than I thought. I figured they would be below Microsoft, but not by that much. Also Nintendo is slightly higher than Sony, is somewhat suprising, since Sony has a whole lot more products on the market than Nintendo.

Apple, MS, IBM, and Intel way above everyone else isn't surprising.


SOny is having a restructing

 

Most of their products are for the future

 

So they are bearing the loss now for a bigger future

 

this is more like a temporary low

should not judge it based on only the current price but what all strategies they have along it for the future

 

also the YEN strenght would make it seem even lower when converting to dollar

Market value is not only a valuation based on current performance but future expectations.


that is short term future expectation

 

shareholders aren't good enough to invest when your only going to make a good proffit after 2-3 years



TWRoO on 13 November 2010
MrT-Tar said:

Both Sony and to a lesser degree Nintendo slightly lower than I thought


Nintendo is the highest one up there that is purely in the gaming industry if that helps. (actually not sure about tencent holdings) all the ones above have products that are used for wider purpose.



NotStan on 13 November 2010

Wow honestly surprised a Chinese company I have never heard of in my life is above both Sony AND Nintendo and would have thought that THQ would be higher than that :S



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Grimes on 13 November 2010
Solid_Snake4RD said:


that is short term future expectation

 

shareholders aren't good enough to invest when your only going to make a good proffit after 2-3 years


There is a reason companies don't forecast in the long term. There is too much uncertainty. Nether you, Sony or the market can tell what's going to happen years from now. Might as well play roulette.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

Solid_Snake4RD on 13 November 2010
Grimes said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:


that is short term future expectation

 

shareholders aren't good enough to invest when your only going to make a good proffit after 2-3 years


There is a reason companies don't forecast in the long term. There is too much uncertainty. Nether you, Sony or the market can tell what's going to happen years from now. Might as well play roulette.

try to understand the problem in a more mature way

and following the gaming industry this generation only says one thing

 

yeah no company knows what will happen in long tern

 

but they plan for it and they take a goal

 

Blu-ray push in PS3 for future royalties and currently bearing loss for it is planning for the future



Mr.Metralha on 13 November 2010

Nintendo is worth more than sony with just consoles and games business x_x

(some toys too maybe?)



Grimes on 13 November 2010
Solid_Snake4RD said:
Grimes said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:


that is short term future expectation

 

shareholders aren't good enough to invest when your only going to make a good proffit after 2-3 years


There is a reason companies don't forecast in the long term. There is too much uncertainty. Nether you, Sony or the market can tell what's going to happen years from now. Might as well play roulette.

try to understand the problem in a more mature way

and following the gaming industry this generation only says one thing

 

yeah no company knows what will happen in long tern

 

but they plan for it and they take a goal

 

Blu-ray push in PS3 for future royalties and currently bearing loss for it is planning for the future

All I'm saying is you don't know any more than investors what Sony will be making years from now. If you're so good at predicting future profits, then you should become an investment banker because you will be a billionaire. You can prove us all wrong.

I don't even know if blu-ray will bring in huge profits like you think it will. Blu-ray could bring in a lot of profit, but that profit could be divided amongst many companies. Sony doesn't own the blu-ray format after all. Has any format delivered huge profits? It might be a good source of steady income but it may not make Sony a world beater.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

maf on 13 November 2010
SmokedHostage said:

Personally, I'm surprised not to see Nexon. :s

Nexon Corp. is still a private company.