ok two things:
1) Nintendo is worth more than Sony. In market cap, which is the most important factor. If some large company wanted to buy Nintendo and Sony right now, they would have to spend more money on Nintendo than Sony. Nintendo also currently has a higher profit ($1.4 billion vs $842 million) and more cash on hand despite lower revenue.
2) Considering SCE lost a huge amount of money in the last few quarters, yet Sony as a whole was still profitable. Sony would survive the loss of the entire Playstation division, but it would definitely be a massive loss. It really is a very large part of the company and pretty much single handedly held it up for the last few years while consumer electronics was sucking it up.
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