Nintendo quarterly sales update (To 31st March 2021) Switch 84.59m

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Otter said:

javi741 said:

Also, Nintendo may have been the most profitable gaming division of all time this fiscal year. Nintendo had a profit of 5 Billion+ which is more than Sony's best of 3 Billion and certainly better than Microsoft. Only gaming divisions that may have been more profitable are Apple or Tencent but not 100% sure.

Document from Apple vs Epic revealing profit for Publishers off games and services

Profit
Tencent - $6.3B
Apple - $5.2B
Sony - $4.1B
Google - $3.2B
Netease - $2.4B
Nintendo - $2.3B
Microsoft - ($1.6B - $2.3B range)
Activision / Blizzard - $1.6B
EA - $1.2B
Epic - $1.08B pic.twitter.com/aXneihwgc3

— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) May 5, 2021

for 2019

"In addition to Tencent, 9 other companies generated more than $1b in profit from software & services including ... Nintendo ($2.3B)..."

@bold Doesn't this JUST mean game sales, dlc, and subscriptions? Those two words don't seem to include (in my mind) profit they have generated from hardwar sales of console, extra docks, joycons, controllers, amiibos, and other physical merchandise. If those things are taken into consideration, and Nintendo has one again sold the Switch hardware at a profit (like they often do with their consoles), then I'd imagine their profit for 2019 to be far higher than $2.3 billion. So it all depends on what "software & services" means.