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KLAMarine on 26 August 2017
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JWeinCom said:
KLAMarine said:

It's difficult for me: I'm not in the habit of looking up financial reports but going off of some recent articles, sounds like Nintendo has done pretty well:

Nintendo: $190 million in profit out of $1.38 billion in net sales

https://mynintendonews.com/2017/07/26/nintendo-returns-to-profit-thanks-to-nintendo-switch/

PlayStation: $160 million in operating profit out of revenue of $3.15 billion

http://comicbook.com/gaming/2017/08/01/playstation-4-sales-slump-gaming-profits-down-sony-earnings-report/

I'm not a business major, far from it. I believe profit and operating profit are two different things as are net sales and revenue so these figures are likely not directly comparable...

Also, are these for the same periods of time? I often hear about quarters and to this day, I'm not entirely sure what time periods these quarters span...

Seriously, this financial stuff just doesn't interest me much. I just hope the games I like are successful.

Operating profit means the profit that is made from core operations.

For example, I believe Nintendo sold their stakes in the mariners recently.  This would show up as a profit, since they made money, but it's not operating profit, because it's not part of their normal business.

Basically this is so investors can determine long term viability.  Nintendo isn't going to sell a baseball team every year, so if you were to invest in them, you probably wouldn't want to consider that very heavily.

 

Makes sense. Thanks.

For what it's worth, the stake in the Mariners was sold April of last year.

Turkish said:
KLAMarine said:

It's difficult for me: I'm not in the habit of looking up financial reports but going off of some recent articles, sounds like Nintendo has done pretty well:

Nintendo: $190 million in profit out of $1.38 billion in net sales

https://mynintendonews.com/2017/07/26/nintendo-returns-to-profit-thanks-to-nintendo-switch/

PlayStation: $160 million in operating profit out of revenue of $3.15 billion

http://comicbook.com/gaming/2017/08/01/playstation-4-sales-slump-gaming-profits-down-sony-earnings-report/

I'm not a business major, far from it. I believe profit and operating profit are two different things as are net sales and revenue so these figures are likely not directly comparable...

Also, are these for the same periods of time? I often hear about quarters and to this day, I'm not entirely sure what time periods these quarters span...

Seriously, this financial stuff just doesn't interest me much. I just hope the games I like are successful.

So? Has a representative poll been done worldwide?

Your travels covered 3/4 of the world? You polled 5.6 billion people on this matter in your travels?

Over 30 years for Nintendo.

This may be so but why is it that by the metric YOU brought up, Nintendo is currently valued more highly than PlayStation?

Why might this be?

Recall you stated before that

Yeah they're for the same period, last quarter. I'm comparing operating income for both companies, which is exactly what those numbers are.

So what do you make of Nintendo currently ranking higher than PlayStation on branddirectory.com, the metric you brought up?

KLAMarine said:
Turkish said:

4. one of the most valuable brands http://brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/global-500-2016

That's a table from 2016, I believe. http://brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/global-500-2017 is showing something slightly different:

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Nintendo's 355 to PlayStation's 479.