| Train wreck said: Also reading would help Im tallying the total of apple from 2005 to present and microsoft from 2005 to present. Apple had a great year last year, even with it, microsoft has made more money. But this OT has gone on long enough. |
Any investor or prospective investor worth his salt knows to look into growth trends. Last year was the first year Apple had higher net income than Microsoft (per your spreadsheet, MS' net income = $23.15B, per Yahoo! Apple's = $25.92B), but Apple's profits have been growing at a much sharper rate than Microsoft's for quite a while now. There's a reason the stock is valued so highly, despite the fact that Apple has not paid dividends until recently.
Of course, none of this matters, because your argument is silly, and I suspect you know it. Even if you can't invest solely in Microsoft or Sony's gaming divisions, trying to compare the entirety of those organizations' profits with the purely gaming Nintendo is disingenuous; we're not asking who you should invest in, we're asking who "won" the generation.
Really, I'm disappointed that you were handed such a broad-ended question, but still had to resort to this to get a "win."
