Nintendo FY2015 Q1 Results (WiiU: 0.47m, 3DS: 1.01m)

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Sharu said:

DerNebel said:

Miyamotoo said:

DerNebel said:

Small(ish) operating profit, huge exchange rate gains lead to a healthy overall profit though.

Profit is profit. For last Q1 they have similar loose and now they have profit.

It is, just interesting. Sony should see similar exchange rate gains I guess.

I was checking this around two years ago. It seems that exchange rates which benefits Nintendo profits makes a problem to Sony profits. 

At Nintendo's overall profit is usually higher then operating profit. At Sonys - overall profit is usually lower then operating profit. I read an explanation that a lot of nintendo costs are still in Japan, so current exchange rates benefits it. And Sony was 'smart' 10-15 years ago and get its costs out of Japan. Which in current sitiuation of exchange rates makes it worse to them. 
That is a very simple explanation and was made around 1.5-2 years ago. But it seems current trend is still something like this.

WeakYen helps Sony because they make most of their revenue outside of Japan.