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Dulfite said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Profit should be what we are tracking here, not operating income. Just saying.

Microsoft's is "lost" which means despite operating income they lost that much money on the first Xbox. Nintendo's is clearly profit. As to the chart, I don't know 100% what that is (on my phone at the moment) but Nintendo has been good on profit for decades looking at past data.

I see. Didn't notice that the chart could go into the negative like that. I thought operating income was the money that comes in from operating your business. Profit would be operating income minus expenses. But I see investopedia defines it differently, so your graph was perfectly right all along.