Aym07 said:
Took the time to look it up!, Microsoft mixes together a lot of things, like the Surface pc, under the same revenue statements without specifying their % of the total profit. Also, they separate hardware sales from xbox live sales. And on top of that they mix xbox live's revenue with different streams of revenue from other products. A total headache, and I believe that is totally on purpose because from what I found, even with all those things combined, xbox doesn't really make that much of a profit. Sony has a lot of different segments but they do specify rather well how much their game division makes year on year. And Nintendo is just Nintendo. Losses are between brackets.
| FY Ending March |
SONY |
NINTENDO |
| 2011 |
$429,000,000 |
$946,000,000 |
| 2012 |
$354,907,870 |
($434,500,000) |
| 2013 |
$18,000,000 |
$71,400,000 |
| 2014 |
($78,000,000) |
($229,000,000) |
| 2015 |
$401,000,000 |
$207,830,000 |
| 2016 |
$785,000,000 |
$146,000,000 |
| 2017 |
$1,210,000,000 |
$263,000,000
|
| Total |
$3,120,000,000 |
$970,000,000 |
The total is from 2011 onwards, since the 3DS release and the start of the 8th gen! Sony is clearly winning this gen, obviously. But even with that, I really don't understand why the argument of "Nintendoom" is even a thing. Sony hasn't really make that much of a profit in their gaming division throughout the years. Nintendo is by FAR the gaming king, regarding profit. Less than 4 billion dollars all time for Sony vs more than 33 billion dollars for Nintendo.
And it's not like Nintendo screwed up that badly with the Wii U. Sony lost 4 and a half billion dollars between 2007 and 2010. The Ps4 isn't even close of breaking even for Sony. It needs at least 1 and a half more years for it to break even in fact. But Nintendo? Rock solid profit for the foreseeable future, and their losses are more than made up for already.
Btw, I believe Sony has an incredible future with the ps4 too, I'm just pointing out the stupidity of the arguments against Nintendo. Numbers don't lie, and what really matters is profit, not unit solds. 80 million PS3 consoles sold vs the Wii U's 13 million, care to guess which one was profitable?
Oh and Spanish native speaker here! Sorry for any mistakes! Feel free to point them out (:
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