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colafitte on 05 February 2020
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RolStoppable said:
colafitte said:

Thank you!. I was expecting something like this from somewhere, good work!

This puts into perspective again, that despite the shortcomings of Xbox One sales and their games and the amazing raw number of hardware and software sales from Nintendo, both are very close in the only aspect that these companies really care....earnings and profits.

I would say that Microsoft, is doing better than the other two considering how much a failure their hardware and their software had been this last gen....

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Looks like you don't realize what you are looking at, but you aren't the only one in this thread. The above only shows revenue numbers, but doesn't touch on profits at all.

Because I can't be bothered to go through a bunch of financial reports to align for the calendar year 2019 that is displayed above, I'll only post the operating profit forecasts of both Sony and Nintendo for the fiscal year ending March 2020. Microsoft does not provide numbers for profit comparisons, but they can be safely assumed to be a distant third anyway.

Sony: 235 billion yen
Nintendo: 300 billion yen

So those numbers you post, are forecasts for next fiscal year???, and what that has to do with that 2019 graph when in this Fiscal Year Sony and Microsoft have the costs of launching a next gen console?

I know those are revenue numbers, but the fact is that Sony still generates much more money than Nintendo, and that money can be spent in something else..., Just because Nintendo can or decides to have less costs doesn't mean it's more succesful and it definitively doesn't mean is better for us, the consumers. This is not just a race about who saves more money.

The thing that i want to say, is that more people want to spend money on a Sony ecosystem than in the other two, and that's just as good to consider as profits.

This means Sony  spends more in triple AAA 1st party games, 3rd party deals, better hardware, better game services and infraestructures, etc....I guess it works for Nintendo and their fans what they do, because people will always buy Marios, Zeldas and Pokemons, but i prefer what Sony, or Microsoft, does.

But i guess you can say profits is the most important thing and i would not be able to disagree with you because is the most rational thing to think so. Just giving my opinion on the matter.