Corporate Health of Sony, Nintendo and MS

[DonFerrari]

AsGryffynn said:

DonFerrari said:

You assume you have almost no knowledge on the issue but keep doing meaningless math to prove Nintendo is safier or have more armor? If you don't know what you are talking about it's better to just say you don't know.

AsGryffynn said:

As far as I know USA always wanted to swallow the world economy and MS in 90's were already quite big. But what does that have to do with Sony problems? MS never caused much trouble to Sony besisdes maybe pushing them to bad decisions on PS3 (which I doubt, they would probably release the same HW independt of MS being or not in the market) or having to drop the price to fast and losing money (Sony usually drops HW price fast, but yes I can see MS pressure being a decisive ingredient here).

They weren't the juggernauts they are now. Windows was only starting to become popular (Windows 98 was when the rollout started) and the US economy swallowed the world whole during the Clinton years, so American companies started expanding like crazy until the Great Recession. When the Xbox appeared, they weren't that important, but with the 360 they started to pressure Sony into severing what they didn't profit from and created competition to help lower game prices.

They didn't really change anything. I just wanted to clarify they weren't as big back then...

Yes MS wasn't as big and Sony wasn't as small. But why are we discussing this? And that have nothing to do with how well they done on 7th or 8th gen, because MS finances have become even better and Sony about the same, but the outcome is completely different.

KLAMarine said:

DonFerrari said:

KLAMarine said:

But employee salaries are a natural expense for any business during normal operation. I imagine the assets/employee ratio would be at the very least a decent indicator of corporate health. Of course it's not the only indicator but if you have other ideas, please feel free to suggest other possible indicators.

It's a indication of their health, but keeping the jobs isn't a necessity to keep the company afloat. But certainly depending on the costs to fire an employee it may hold more or less significance.

So you agree that my math IS an indicator of health?

In a way I can take it at face value and in some cases you could say that Nintendo is a lot better because their profit per employee is very high.