Nintendo revenue > Xbox 360 + SCE revenue

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Smashchu2 said:

Squilliam said:

In terms of overall revenue I would say that Nintendo are probably under-represented in the console market and over-represented in the handheld market considering they hold much greater market share there. To be honest I was expecting Nintendo to have a greater proportion of the total as they have an iron fisted grip on the handheld market.

It is "Nintendo is." There is not more then one Nintendo. Nintendo is a single company. When I say Nintendo, I mean the one corperation that makes Mario, the Wii ect ect. How are people thinking it is plural.

Companies are singlular people.

Small grammar sidetracking: I understand that with collective nouns you should always use them as singular when you're thinking of the group of a whole entity, you can use plural when "group X" stands for "the people that form group X".

Example 1: Nintendo IS a japanese company. Example 2: I know that Nintendo ARE going to introduce an "autoplay" feature in SMB Wii

Even on the BBC I hear them using plural verbs with "the government" all the time when they mean its members - and I assume their is a good, urban English.

That said, James T. is wrong here - and we should never lose an opprtunity to rub it in.