Microsoft has the $$$, Why not buy EA and Sqaure ENIX and End the War

[Carl]

Kantor said:

It may interest everyone to know that Sony's assets are worth triple what Microsoft's assets are worth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft $78 billion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony $230.5 billion

I don't get all this stuff.

What do assets actually mean and what do they do?