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

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liquidninja said:

Inflation:

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.

 

 

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	?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? $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 $264,330,000	2.33 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

 

 

Thank you liquid ninja, this makes the chart way more relevant and easier to read for us all. 

It is mind-boggling nintendo is past 30 billion while MS is still 10 billion in the red. Really, Nintendo management is and always has been top brass. It is interesting that while MS is still 10 billion in the red, the ps3 so far has probably cost 4-5 billion to Sony. It makes it very clear why Nintendo didn't want to play the same game MS and Sony wanted to and in doing so they achieved success by innovation. Staggering.

@alby: whatever you want to believe. But you are ignoring a lot of data just to fit in your pre-conceptions about the issue at hand. For example, I don't hear you talking how the Fed's decision to print a trillion to buy US bonds will negatively affect the dollar/yen ratio and thus hurt japanese corporations even more.