Corporate Health of Sony, Nintendo and MS

[DonFerrari]

SpokenTruth said:

DonFerrari said:

SpokenTruth said:

Swordmasterman said:

Sony, already had a lot of loss in the past years, and now is back up, Nintendo, cannot loss Money, other wise they would be in big trouble.

They have not yet fully recovered from those losses and it may take Sony a while to do so. 

Nintendo already did take a huge loss and they have the finances to take several more just like for for the next 20 years.

Miyamotoo said:

Do you have some links for this numbers!?

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/sne/financials/balance-sheet
http://markets.money.cnn.com/research/quote/financials.asp?symb=SNE&dataSet=BS

Just use the symbols NTDOY for Nintendo, SNE for Sony and MSFT for Microsoft.

You think Nintendo can have 20 consecutive failed generation in both fields they have products and nothing would really happen?

And you still complain of people that think Sony is in a better situation because Playstation is in a strong position or that Nintendo is in a bad situation because 3DS underperformed and WiiU plummeted?

20 years or generations?  Failed products or failed financials?

And you fail to grasp what I'm saying and instead put what you want me to say. 

Miss read the year. But okay that would make 4 generations... Do you think having 5 failed generations would make failed financials? Or do you expect nintendo to survive 20 years by making bigger and bigger bloppers?

Sony survived 10 years of financial problems, but it wasn't exactly all their products failing in the market, was much more failure on administrating costs.

Or do financial problems come on a vaccum? Or I should say you want to put things only in a light that make you satisfied?

Teeqoz said:

SpokenTruth said:

No, that's not what recovering from losses means.  Let's look at a fictional company and I'll show you what I mean.

2011 - $500 million losses
2012 - $2 bilion losses
2013 - $2 billion losses
2014 - $100 million profit
2015 - $200 million profit

As you can see, this company is making profit again but has not yet recovered from the losses.  They would still be down $4.2 billion over the past 5 fiscal years.  A full recovery would bring that up to a positive overall figure. 

That's a pretty weird definition of recovery though. The damage of those 4 billion losses will be just as big regardless of how much money you make later. The most reasonable way to talk about recovery is if they've recovered their ability to make an (equal sized) profit as before their financial troubles, and in that sense, Sony has pretty much recovered.

Yes... when you say you recovered a company for some it seems like you have to have recovered all the losses in the past (they ignore the past is the past... unless they wanted to go further back and add also the profits and say that after losing 4,5B the company wasn't having problems)