Corporate Health of Sony, Nintendo and MS

[DonFerrari]

Swordmasterman said:

SpokenTruth said:

Swordmasterman said:

I Think that we need to update this thread, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, already gave another Quarter's Revenue, and Profit's data, isn't ?.

Thsi threads shows fiscal year data.  What was released recenty by Sony and MS was just quarterly.  Nintendo will release theirs on Feb 2nd.

Full fiscal year data will come out around early to mid May for Sony and Nintendo while MS is offset by one quarter (we'll get their fiscal year data in mid July).

Good to know, but Why are some companies showing Q2, while others just Q1 ?.

AsGryffynn explained it very well... Fiscal Year doesn't have mandatory calendar year start from one company to another, they just have to keep the same on theirs own reports.

AsGryffynn said:

DonFerrari said:

KLAMarine said:

Do we have access to any figures? Because if we don't, we're just pointlessly speculating.

nope i don't. but the sheer size of sony as hw manufacturer puts their profit margin a lot lower than nintendo. average wages and total payroll I have no clue.

AsGryffynn said:
I'd have said something, but it seems DonFerrari already read my mind...

Edit: Specially in Russia...

what part of it have I read?

The good part. 

Then I'm happy =]

KLAMarine said:

DonFerrari said:

KLAMarine said:

Still no solid numbers so I wouldn't say with confidence that Sony's "profit margin" is lower than Nintendo's.

If you look at most Fiscal Year reports you'll see that Sony profit margins are very smaller than Nintendo

Sony revenue Q3: 2,580.8 B Yen for a profit of 202B Yen or 120B Yen for shareholders.... 8% or 4,7% depending on where you look... and that was a record quarter for Sony

Nintendo revenue FY15: 549,8B Yen profit for 24B Yen and 42B Yen for shareholders... 4,3% or 7,6% on a bad year. ... on 2011 1,014.35B Yen revenue for 171,1B Yen profit and 77,6B Yen net... 17% or 7,6%

On general Nintendo show better margins than Sony, it's actually one of the proud points Nintendo fans bring on the site.

Numbers! Good ol' numbers! Math is a lovely thing.

DonFerrari said:

On general Nintendo show better margins than Sony, it's actually one of the proud points Nintendo fans bring on the site.

I think this is the first I've heard of this. I generally don't make a habit out of looking up financials.

Good to know.

It's been a runing topic on the forum to say that Sony is a lot bigger than Nintendo, but Nintendo makes a lot more profits. Also had the discussion that gaming department of Sony is very inferior than Nintendo on profits as well.

One thing I'll never understand from customer is the proud of the company they buy having gigantic Margins... like some people here talk proudly of Nintendo expending 20M to make a game that will generate 500M revenue while laughing at a Sony game that costed 100M and had revenue of 150M.

I would feel extorted as a Nintendo customer and pleased as a Sony customer if those were the numbers. Because first case shows that I'm paying much more than what the product should cost and on second it's a acceptable margin. Even though I have several games that were probably unprofitable and I'm happy they were made even so.