PS5 Confirmed Backward Compatibility

[DonFerrari]

Biggerboat1 said:

DonFerrari said:

Are we talking profits or revenue on this case? Not that I think any of these currently have PSN over Switch, but we would need to look at the companies released data. For this year we will see on briefly.

FY17 results give us Network (PSN) = 1,033,192 Million of Yens, FY18Q3 433,704 Million of Yens

For Nintendo same period for full year = 1,055,682 Million of Yens, on quick search haven't found for the same quarter, but the cumulative for 9 months was like 900,000 million of Yens. So it seems that revenue on the same quarter was also similar.

Considering the cost of PSN sales is a lot less than full Nintendo (development, HW cost, SW cost, etc) then I would also guess that profit is higher on PSN than full Nintendo.

Eh, PSN will surely have to pay out massive amounts to game developers who's games are their primary product.

This has all been discussed to death : http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=239201&page=1

'Making' money, to me, means profit. You can have a big revenue but still make huge losses...

So you think PSN cost more to Sony than making Switch (which margins would be close to zero) or development of games? Yes, sure thing. Margin on services is much higher than on HW.

And funny of you to send this link that basically proves the point (Daniel Ahmad would be much more trusted source for this than you) and you before acting as if this wasn't a real thing, and then just shifting to "past tense".

Looking at profits on Nintendo as a whole it have Operational Profit of 177,577 Million Yen for the closed fiscal year while Sony had over 250,000 Million Yen profit

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8966641

So seems like PSN still profits more than all of Nintendo. Thanks for your help to confirm.

Last edited by DonFerrari - on 18 April 2019