With the older figures there's a significant the difference in earnings when you take in to consideration what that money could buy back then. But still I don't want to make my original post even larger (at least not for this kind of meticulous data) so this is where I'll put this chart. This chart applies the Buying Power of a Dollar retrieved from CPI Inflation Calculator to the data in the above "Comparison US Dollars" chart. Inflation:
FY End
Sony Game Segment
Nintendo
Sega
Microsoft EDD
Buying Power
1981:
1982:
1983:
1984:
1985:
1986:
1987:
1988:
1989:
1990:
1991:
1992:
1993:
1994:
1995:
1996:
1997:
1998:
1999:
2000:
2001:
2002:
2003:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
2008:??
-$126,213,498
$670,917,654
$1,240,457,088
$1,363,484,268
$852,616,750
-$555,754,896
$783,695,997
$1,063,613,299
$671,346,883
$438,555,396
$81,290,790
-$2,028,476,040
-$1,082,048,517$46,596,272
$210,765,368
$179,391,326
$144,956,422
$163,939,499
$4,372,535,73
$564,868,656
$661,196,572
$827,288,834
$726,336,460
$1,531,838,380
$1,675,368,918
$1,880,345,913
$1,376,286,454
$1,330,433,496
$1,015,850,619
$765,512,985
$1,355,203,824
$1,560,823,573
$1,607,265,969
$920,825,784
$1,126,191,421
$945,282,980
$1,069,765,995
$1,132,929,693
$839,568,082
$1,973,460,748
$4,235,013,684??
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$99,650,250
$145,524,600
$192,922,080
$442,852,800
$738,228,414
$618,334,288
$437,261,529
$418,489,956
$367,290,514
$145,403,856
$20,799,386
-$447,215,134
-$565,539,696-$1,340,700,000
-$1,999,200,000
-$1,021,880,000
-$1,078,700,000
-$1,132,320,000
-$505,760,000
-$1,395,450,000
-$2,056,320,000
$264,330,0002.33
2.20
2.13
2.04
1.97
1.94
1.87
1.79
1.71
1.62
1.56
1.51
1.47
1.43
1.39
1.35
1.32
1.30
1.27
1.23
1.20
1.18
1.15
1.12
1.09
1.05
1.02
0.99
Total:
$3,373,485,174
$30,304,561,500
$2,614,002,843
-$10,266,000,000
Note: Only the buying power for the actual year is taken into calculations not the fiscal year.
Note: These are the rate as of March 20, 2009
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