PSN brings in more money than all of Nintendo

[Barkley]

Miyamotoo said:

Barkley said:

Why are you comparing Net Profit to Operating Profit rather than Operating profit to Operating Profit?

There is no "Net-Profit" for Sony's gaming divison, so logically if you want to make a comparison use Operating Profit for both. Unless you're cherry picking. It's silly to compare two different types of figures when you have two of the same.

Because operating profit it's not profit for whole Nintendo, and OP specifically said "PSN brings in more money than all of Nintendo". Like I wrote, we know that whole Nintendo made profit of $570m, PSN has just an operating income and that's actually profit PSN made. So its not hard to understand that Sony Game & Network Services (G&S) with operating income of $431m made less profit than whole Nintendo with profit of $570m.

Not relly hard to understand.

I think you're having trouble understanding.

The Operating Profit is the Operating Profit for the whole of Nintendo. Choosing to compare Nintendo's Net Profit to Operating Profit in the argument of if Sony's Gaming Divison makes more money then Nintendo is Cherry Picking at it's finest.

Logical: Compare Operating Profit to Operating Profit

Illogical Cherry Picking: Compare Net Profit to Operating Profit.

You can't compare Nintendo's Net Profit to G&S or PSN's Operating Profit because they're two different things, you can't use Net Profit because if G&S/PSN had a Net Profit figure maybe it'd be even higher? We don't know because it doesn't exist, because it's not a seperate entity.

So maybe use two figures that actually exist and equate to the same thing. Comparing a Companies Net Profit to a Divisions Operating Profit is idiocy.

You have a much more accurate alternative yet you choose the one that advances your cause. Though I think it's more that you don't understand the problem with what you're doing rather than a conscious decision.