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Samus Aran on 20 April 2015
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Tachikoma said:
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.

http://gamerinvestments.com/video-game-stocks/index.php/2008/05/30/playstation-2-may-have-won-last-generations-sales-battle-but-it-lost-the-console-war/

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.

Actually the article I posted (and got the images from) said this:

"Lastly, to make the comparison as fair as possible I only included the most current reported operating income from the company’s division that handles home console sales. Sony’s Game Division, Microsoft’s Home and Entertainment (later named Entertainment and Devices Division), and Nintendo’s operating income (excluding investment income). The problem here is that these divisions all include sources of income other than that from the sale of home consoles. Sony Game Division has revenue from it’s PSP. Nintendo’s operating income includes the Gameboy and DS. And Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division includes PC games and the Zune among other things. Even with these extra incomes included I still believe that a comparison between the three companies at this level is appropriate. For those that care, detailed operating income numbers and links to the sources used are available at the end of this article.."