Nintendo VS Sony Fiscal Years: Global Edition

[peachbuggy]

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peachbuggy said:

Yes, sure, Sony's 1st party games can reach Nintendo levels. As long as they continue literally giving them away!

Too bad for you, Nintendo also bundle so many of their games.

Too bad that you appear to argue with many in here, about things you know little about! MK8D was just bundled over the Christmas period, meanwhile Sony were and still are giving  3 of their highest selling games away for nothing! Literally nothing, plus the PS4 itself has 50$ off. Nintendo will never have to bundle their games to that extent, yet their top SW will comfortably outsell PS4 top SW LT. Nintendo are likely to achieve at least 3 25m SW sellers with little to no bundling. Meanwhile i doubt Sony could even give that many away! Maybe next gen, Sony games will attain "Nintendo-like numbers" but i sincerely doubt it!

RolStoppable said:

The reason why revenue doesn't work as the metric to determine market leadership in the console business is because you quickly face the situation that Microsoft would have to be recognized as the #2 in the business on occasion despite Nintendo actually being clearly more popular than them. So if you continued to use revenue as the primary metric, you'd inevitably make yourself look ridiculous because you'd go against all common sense.

Console sales will always be the metric to determine who is the market leader in the console business, because unlike revenue, they actually tell us how many costumers there are.

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One important thing I want to say at this point is that people in this thread don't seem to understand why Sony's profits increased by so much with the PS4. It's not because of digital game sales or first party game sales on the whole or overall software sales. It's because of PS+ subscriptions, because they account for the lion share of the PS division's profits. PS+ subscriptions are the biggest factor by far, yet people don't mention them.

Completely wrong lmao

We've already been through the revenue thing with Amazon, Uber etc. Just because you aren't willing to accept doesn't invalidate it. MS gaming division prob includes all their PC and mobile stuff as well, and yeah they have a fair amount of the market because they sell a lot of third party software.