| Grey Acumen said: Any chance we could get a comparative profit/loss reading from Microsoft and Nintendo as well? |
I've done a little searching for nintendo, but all i can get from their official site is stuff going back to only 2003.
But if you're curious here's a sneak peak for nintendo before i can get all the info i want.
2006 - 800,000,000 in profit
2007 - 2,000,000,000 in profit.
Typically, Nintendo always profits because of their business model. They don't have an OS, electronics or movie studio division to back them up, so they can never really gamble alot and make a system that attempts to pushout advanced horse power or new media functions. If their approach were any different, all it'd take is one big mistake to become bankrupt. Nintendo usually takes recent or old technology and puts a new spin on it to sell, sometimes they win big(DS) and sometimes they get nothing (GC) but they never lose. This is the reason why there are still major Wii shortages, Nintendo doesn't want to put capitol into alot of factories b/c it would mean risk. I'd hate to see the day Sony or Microsoft takes the same business approach.
