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KLAMarine on 03 February 2017
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sergiodaly said:
KLAMarine said:

I think these might be it?

https://thetechportal.com/2017/01/31/nintendo-quarterly-earnings-released/

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-02-02/sony-records-84-pct-quarterly-profit-drop-on-movie-loss

Nintendo's $569 million in profit versus Sony's $174 million in profit. Movie business hurting Sony.

By the way:

Why the difference between Microsoft and Sony? Gaming Revenue vs. Game & Network Services respectively?

Someone here with a Twitter account able to ask him?

i was thinking more in line with the thread and talking about only games and networks sony division. that has a operation income bigger than nintendo in q1-q3 and the latest forecast by both companies points to sony making more money than nintendo in this fiscal year (sony 135 billion yen operation income just for the G&NS and nintendo intire profit will be 90 billion yen).

I have no doubt Sony's making more money in gaming than Nintendo (especially with that paid online Nintendo's now looking to get into, ugh!) but is there a reason you're using operation income (I assume you meant operating income) for Sony and profit for Nintendo?

I'm looking up the two terms on investopedia and they seem to differ slightly:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/profit.asp

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/operatingincome.asp

sergiodaly said:

Surely sony as a whole doesn't get profit like nintendo but it's mainly because of huge spending in R&D, a lot more assets to maintain, paying interest and past debt while nintendo has low operation income but gets money from interest because have nearly no debt and have money sitting in the bank. if we look at current operations sony is currently making more money, the past choices/mismanagement and the size of the company prevents it from keeping the money they earn.

It's not as if Nintendo hasn't been spending in R&D as well.