Profit Numbers: Nintendo, Sony (Game Segment) and Microsoft (EDD Segment)

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Bitmap Frogs said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Bitmap Frogs said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Bitmap Frogs said:

Ah yes... I knew I could count on you to post that. You have no basis whatsoever to state such thing, yet you always do it, every 3 months like a clockwork. Sometimes I do wonder how it feels to live in a land of fantasy where MS is just a lossy, poorly managed company while Sony is the world's example of shining collaboration between research and business triumph.

 

So do you know what's earning and what's losing in EDD and how much?

And do you know how much every division contributes to losses accounted for in "Corporate level activity" balance item?

 

No, but you look like the kind of guy who knows what general overseed the removal of Roswell's charred remains.

Any other conspiracy theory about MS financial statements? Maybe the keys to the Temple of Salomon are coded into the Office Unit revenue?

 

The most serious theory I've ever seen about Roswell was Futurama episode "Roswell that ends well"

About MS balance sheets: no theory, like many, I'd like to know a little bit less vaguely where losses accounted for in "Corporate level activity" come from. I asked a question and you put answers in my mouth? Anyhow, vague balance item apart, MS balances are public, so everybody can read them, see how divisions were organized in the past and their profits or losses, etc. and see that Windows, Office, IIS and services have always been cash cows across the years, while every other product and division, well, let's simply say, not always (and I could have been much more malicious if I were a fanboy).

 

That episode won an Emmy, by the way. Always in everyone's top 5 episodes, a true classic.

Anyways, you were implying MS was using the overhead expenses to hide X360 related losses, which is kind of conspirational-ly. Sony also has overhead expenses, Nintendo has overhead expenses. Assuming just because it is Microsoft it must be doing something fishy falls within the realms of tin-foil hattery.

 

Fishy not really, a little bit reticent and less than completely transparent, but within legal limits, yes. It's cosmetics, we know many companies do it, pretending only MS doesn't would be quite naïve.

Edit: about bolded part: yes, they have, but MS EDD division including a lot of heterogeneous things added to separate overhead expenses including in a big cauldron legal expenses, settlements and fines, R&D, support and service costs, etc makes a lot more difficult to tell what's profiting and what's not inside EDD itself. Conspiration theory would be suggesting some outlandish explanation to facts, and I'm not doing it, but facts remain, and they are that we can't tell for sure what's producing losses inside EDD, as we know that SW retail versions produce profits, Win CE/Mobile probably too, at last, and keyboard and mice too.