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DieAppleDie on 24 April 2013

looking at that chart, PS3 looks like a complete failure if you ask me
and they want to push Vita and PS4 with those numbers?



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veritaz on 24 April 2013
DieAppleDie said:
looking at that chart, PS3 looks like a complete failure if you ask me
and they want to push Vita and PS4 with those numbers?


PS3 cost way to much money to make so it backfired, but it still sells a lot of consoles and is very popular so I don't know how pushing the PS4 is a bad thing or a failure. It has the brand power alone to have it sell high numbers with the highest price of any console by far, not making a new one would be a failure and dumb move.



lightofhonor on 24 April 2013
ethomaz said:
lightofhonor said:
FY END SONY NINTENDO MICROSOFT
1981   $19,998,400  
1982   $95,802,440  
1983   $84,221,280  
1984   $71,057,070  
1985   $83,218,020  
1986   $225,388,440  
1987   $302,068,800  
1988   $369,383,560  
1989   $483,794,640  
1990   $448,355,840  
1991   $981,947,680  
1992   $1,109,515,840  
1993   $1,279,146,880  
1994   $962,438,080  
1995   $957,146,400  
1996 -$93,491,480 $752,481,940  
1997 $508,270,950 $579,934,080  
1998 $954,197,760 $1,024,464,480  
1999 $1,073,609,660 $1,228,994,940  
2000 $693,184,350 $1,306,720,300 -$1,090,000,000
2001 -$463,129,080 $767,354,820 -$1,666,000,000
2002 $664,149,150 $954,399,510 -$866,000,000
2003 $924,881,130 $821,985,200 -$938,000,000
2004 $599,416,860 $955,148,210 -$1,011,000,000
2005 $402,344,400 $1,039,385,040 -$464,000,000
2006 $77,419,800 $799,588,650 -$1,329,000,000
2007 -$1,988,702,000 $1,934,765,440 -$2,016,000,000
2008 -$1,092,978,300 $4,277,791,600 $426,000,000
2009 -$584,760,000 $5,552,630,000 $169,000,000
2010 -$890,000,000 $2,450,000,000 $679,000,000
2011 $429,000,000 $946,000,000 $1,324,000,000
2012 -$2,800,000,000 -$434,500,000 $364,000,000
2013   $71,400,000  
Total: -$1,586,586,800 $32,502,027,580 -$6,418,000,000

Updated. :) I got bored. FY 2013 hasn't finished for MS or Sony. It also make the comparing of them a little difficult since they are comparing slightly different times (even different years). Sony and MS also produce income, good or bad, from other products in the same division so those numbers can be somewhat skewed. Enjoy!

Your number are wrong for the Sony's game division in 2012 and 2013... you have to convert to dollar first.

Game Division History

You are then moving the numbers that were provided earlier which I did not touch. Also, I am simply quoting this:

"The Consumer Products and Services division, the branch the PlayStation business falls into, has made a ¥229.8 billion ($2.8 billion) loss compared to the ¥10.8 billion profit for the same period last year." referring to fy 2012 http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/10/sony-hit-hard-in-fy2012-financials-ps3-sales-down/



sethnintendo on 25 April 2013
kowenicki said:
Nonsense list.



Why is it nonsense? You don't agree with Microsoft losses? Was the Zune included in their division?



thranx on 25 April 2013
sethnintendo said:
kowenicki said:
Nonsense list.



Why is it nonsense? You don't agree with Microsoft losses? Was the Zune included in their division?


its nonsense because the numbers are useless without actually kowing what devices made what money from each division. Mine as well look at the companies as a whole than.



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Grandia on 25 April 2013

It is impressive how Sony managed to make almost no profit with the almighty PS2. Nintendo made more money with the gamecube failure than Sony with the massive PS2 success haha !!

Sony really should consider to leave the console business, they have a machine who sold 150 million and they made almost no profite, what is the purpose for them to work in this business if they can't make money even with the biggest sales success of a home consoles of all time? It makes no sense for me.



KHlover on 25 April 2013
Grandia said:

It is impressive how Sony managed to make almost no profit with the almighty PS2. Nintendo made more money with the gamecube failure than Sony with the massive PS2 success haha !!

Sony really should consider to leave the console business, they have a machine who sold 150 million and they made almost no profite, what is the purpose for them to work in this business if they can't make money even with the biggest sales success of a home consoles of all time? It makes no sense for me.



To be fair, Nintedo made most of the money with the GBA, not the GCN...



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scottie on 25 April 2013

Also, Nintendo profit in 2008-2009 is greater than the sum of all Sony/MS EDD profit in all of their profitable years.



fvgc2049 on 25 April 2013

In gaming business

Nintendo is a professional.

Sony earned some money also.

Microsoft pays huge for not caring buyers benefits by putting garbage level product into their hands--------Red Ring of Death sin't that cheap like someone said for sure.

Moderated,

-Mr Khan



Esmicksee on 25 April 2013
Grandia said:

It is impressive how Sony managed to make almost no profit with the almighty PS2. Nintendo made more money with the gamecube failure than Sony with the massive PS2 success haha !!

Sony really should consider to leave the console business, they have a machine who sold 150 million and they made almost no profite, what is the purpose for them to work in this business if they can't make money even with the biggest sales success of a home consoles of all time? It makes no sense for me.

You don't know what you're talking about.

They will have likely made $2b ish on the PS2... and it benefited the company in more ways that just profit.