Nintendo spend $527M in R&D in the FY'15 according to Technavio

[Dunban67]

JWeinCom said:

Dunban67 said:

What is the source fothis graph?   I don t think it is acurate as the profit loss for Sony and MSFT gaming divsions were not "broken out" during these years-  This graph has ben around a while and seems to be taken as fact but there is no way it could be and i doubt the Sony or MSFT part of it is remotley acurate

I do believe that I've seen this one backed up by financial figures... but you can ignore the chart if you want.  Instead, we can use recent numbers.

In 2014 Sony lost 78 million http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-05-14-sonys-game-division-reports-full-year-loss

In 2015 they made 400 million  http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sony-posts-record-5-74-bil-annual-loss-playstation-division-reports-2-8-bil-loss/

This is accounting for the profits made from PS3 and Vita as well.  Going by the 6 billion figure, they'd have about 5.6 billion dollars until the break even point, and more to account for marketing.  It's kind of unlikely that will happen.

I m not disagreeing w you re sony s R & D   and as you have noted they have started to "break out" their gaming divison # s in recent years after one of their recent restructurings -   I just question that profit and loss chart (re MSFT and Sony at least)  as they did not break out thier video game numbers then and MSFT still does not-   IMO it is one of those internet things that gets used over and over and many assume it is correct becase they have seen it several times