| Samus Aran said: The information is all published online. Nintendo posted higher operating income for most years than the gaming sector of Sony. They also sell much more first party games.
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From the very site you posted.
**** The operating income listed above is only for the division of each company that handles their video game console business. For Sony this is the Networked Products & Services Division (formally the Game Division), Microsoft’s results are from their Entertainment and Devices Division and Nintendo’s numbers exclude their earnings from “other investments”. Because of this the amounts reported contain operating income from sources other than the home video game consoles. Sony’s results include sales of the PSP, VAIO PCs, Walkman, etc. Microsoft’s EDD includes the Zune, PC games, various hardware products, etc. Nintendo’s earnings include GameBoy, DS and software income.
I.E. Included substantial losses caused by the failings of the walkman and vaio pc/laptop sectors, sectors that did so terribly the company would later essentially sell it off to an outside party.
Just how far will you push these goalposts exactly?you've already gone from "its not about sales its about income", to "but lets include handhelds too" and now "lets compare net losses for entire divisions between a company that does virtually nothing outside of its games to one experiencing extreme losses in entirely different but still associated in financial reports sectors".
If you have to push it that far for a victory, it's a pretty hollow victory indeed.
