Legend11 said:
It's hard to compare companies by taking a snapshot of just one year. For example the year shown for Sony is one of it's worst years ever, to put it into perspective financial papers expect Sony's profit for 2007 to be 500% higher than 2006 despite sluggish sales and large losses of the PS3. Also Nintendo's profit it one of the highest in the company's history (perhaps highest?). And Microsoft's numbers are ok but this year they're on track to reach 17-18 billion in profit (compared to the 12.6 for 2006 - you misplaced 600 million in profit in your numbers), that goes to show you the differences that years can make. And GE, well they had double digit profit growth the last two years in a row, 20 billion is a record for them. But since you seemed to pick a company out of random why didn't you choose Exxon which had 40 billion in profit last year?
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Why didn't I pick ExxonMobile? Yes, they make money but they only have 1 product, oil. GE on the other hand has a larger variety of products than most countries.
My point was every Sony fanboy seems to think Sony is taking over the world, they are the world's biggest company, and that they have their foot in more markets than anyone else. While Sony is doing a pretty good job, they pale in comparison to the sheer GE empire. It would be interesting to see them enter the console market, it isn't entirly impossible.
