Corporate Health of Sony, Nintendo and MS

[DonFerrari]

SpokenTruth said:

DonFerrari said:

SpokenTruth said:

Why are you presumming something I never said based on your error?  I really shouln't even need to answer your first question because you know good and well the answer. 

Do you consider the Wii U and 3DS failed products?  If so, then how the hell are they currently making a profit?
That said, you can also have successful products and still take major losses?  PS3 was successful and their gaming division was often taking large losses. 

No, financials don't exist in a vacuum but they aren't polarized as success = profit and failure = losses either.

I know the answer. Both are failures when one will sell less than 50% the predecessor and the other only 15%. They are making profits not only because of amiibos but because the R&D were already paid during Wii and DS era. And it isn't like they are making large profits, and even more they are profiting on their SW. But if they keep failing on HW and their SW having increased cost because of generational leaps but lower market to sell you can see then losing a lot of money. If you preffer to ignore all of that no problem, doesn't matter mine or your opinion the reality will stay the same.

Don, of course they matter.  But you're also ignoring the fact that my statement was simply showing how much they lost and how much they still have and could absorb the same level of loss.  That's it.  It's a calculation of cash / biggest yearly loss.  Nothing more.  It's just a statement to exemplify in simple terms.

You really have this bad habit of presuming that a statement means more than it does.  If I say X for a simple example, you bring in the rest of the alphabet and I have to go on this long back and forth telling you that X just meant X.

Yes I suppose a lot, but ask for clarification. If you give open ended answer they only beg for more questions.

If your only point is that a company with a certain wealth could take a 5% of this wealth as losses every year for several years, mathematically yes. I just don't see much possibility of that happening to Nintendo that would be sustainable. If they launched a console that they take a major hit financially (but sell really well) in a way that they may have 3 years of deep loses but then even bigger profits in the next 3 that would be sustainable. But I don't see a scenario that they would be on loses for 20 years. Sony wasn't always losing money on all markets and selling little, that is why for me the parallel was very strange.