Forbes - Is the death of consoles inevitable?

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Ka-pi96 said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

Calm down lol. In this particular scenario, major third parties have all but vanished. We all know the bulk of sales for Playstation is via third party. Take a look at the attatch ratio for their first party games. How many of them have really high attach rates? Not many. Nintendo's IP have some really ridiculous attach rates which is why he said they're self sustaining. They don't NEED third party support to turn a buck. Nintendo was more profitable than either Sony or Microsofts game divisions last quarter and it is all pretty much thanks to their own games. Sony and MS would collapse in those same situations... 

Last quarter would be FY2015 Q3 right?

Sony http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/fr/15q3_sony.pdf
Revenue: ¥587.1B
Operating Income: ¥40.2B

Nintendo http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-reports-q3-fy15-financial-results/
Revenue: ¥271.521B
Operating Income: ¥31.4B

How were they more profitable?

So they had 3/4 the operating income with less than 1/2 the revenue?