Rath said:
Resident_Hazard said:
Fastrabbit09 said:
not sure how sony is a giant of $ compared to nintendo when nintendo has a larger market share than sony now and is the 2nd largest japanese company (sony is like 5th) |
Nintendo isn't larger than Sony, that's absurd. Sony is a massive corporation with deep, deep pockets. Nintendo's stock was more valuable (in Japan) for a time, but that's a different matter. Nintendo focuses on video-game based entertainment and they have some TV shows and toys and crap. Sony is involved in video games, technology, tech gadgets, entertainment technology, movies, music companies, television, DVD, Blu-Ray, and about a thousand other things. Nintendo is one of the largest entertainment companies in the world, but certainly not larger than a huge corporation like Sony. Nintendo is like the Disney of video games--if Nintendo was callous and evil. The entertainment part is comparable, though. |
Nintendo is both more valuable (anymore? I don't know actually but they certainly were) and more profitable than Sony. They have smaller revenue and less employees but thats not really what matters. Nintendo is a little bit similar to Google, both reasonably small, very focused on a single sector and amazingly profitable. |
Being as this is only a guess, so no one say I said it was a fact. But I imagine Sony has a lot more money in fixed assets than Nintendo. Remember, revenue is not the only source of money a company has. As a whole I imagine Sony is worth a lot more than Nintendo.
