| kowenicki said:
Don't disagree with that, although I think it is slightly simplistic. Ms ans Sony have synergies from gaming for other business areas that they clearly value very highly. But that first graph means jack. It's irrelevant even for Nintendo. Cumulative operating income? It's meaningless. I could just about understand a bar chart representing discrete annual net profits, but this chart is a cock waving contest. |
What I thought the metric might have provided is some kind of buffer for failure. In other words, through the cummulative numbers, you get an idea as to how much Nintendo has stocked up for funding its gaming activities, and how much MS and Sony might be ready to endure until they withdraw (if ever).
In that sense I saw a meaning in the numbers.
But what are the challenges you're talking about when saying a cummulative graph is meaningless? Is it inflation or some other parameter you have in mind? I don't enjoy asking but to be honest I feel like I'm missing something to understand your issue with the numbers.
