Nintendo has $8 billion in bank with no debt. And hardly any sustainable biz except 3DS whose sales are dwindling.
Sony has a net value of over $20 billion (assets-debt). They have a hugely profitable music,pictures (they only posted a loss 2 quarters ago, and are back in green), financial (on its own makes more profit than entire Nintendo), games (most profitable gaming division in the world, according to this Q results. $174million in profits. Entire nintendo had only around $100million ).
Only TV and mobile make consistent losses, and mobile is increasing at a rapid pace and will be profitable soon. TV will be spun off, and if unprofitable for too long, sold.
Seriously, anyone saying Sony is more "doomed" than Nintendo needs some maths and economics classes 101 asap. Nintendo has nothing more than any other 3rd party publisher ie. successful video game IPs.
Oh and btw, NONE of them will kick the bucket soon. But nintendo has more things to cure than Sony. Sony will try to mend their TV biz, and if they fail, they will sell it.
Can Nintendo sells their games biz if they cannot mend the problems? That is your answer.
No profitable games biz = no nintendo as things stand right now. I am glad they are thinking about expanding beyond games. That will give them some support when their games biz isnt doing hot.
