Been paying attention to the weekly sales? Notice how Nintendo has been publishing more units of software than any other publisher for months now? There's a reason why some third party software publishers like to whine about how Nintendo consoles are only good for Nintendo.

And when a $50 game is sold and you get the licensing cut, the publisher's cut, and the developer's cut, that's a heckuva lotta dough.

It's obviously great for Nintendo that they make profit off their hardware sales, too, but they make way more cash off the copy of Metroid, SMG, Mario Party and Wii Play that a dude buys with his Wii than they do off the Wii itself.

One thing occurred into my mind about Nintendos profit. If it made 2B last year and makes 3,5B this year, as bbsin estimated, Nintendos profits in FY 07 and FY 08 combined, nearly equals all SCEs profitable years combined since FY 96.

But in all fairness i have to say, that in order to get the correct picture, you'd have to take inflation into account and look profits in local currencies.

Been paying attention to Nintendo's financial reports? Notice how in Nintendo's 2007 & Q2 2008 fiscal years they made 30-40 percent more profit selling hardware compared to software? ofcourse not, b/c if you did read their reports, you wouldn't be acting like you actually knew where Nintendo makes most their money now would you? Think about it, Nintendo made somewhere around $45 profit for every Wii they've sold at launch. The manufacturing and production probably have droped even futher since then. It can take millions to develop games, market EACH one, and then manufacture them. How much of that 49.99 is still left? Do you really think it's more than the 50-70 dollars made from everyone of those 20,000,000 Wiis and 66,000,000 DS sold? No one is saying that Nintendo software ISN'T making money, but it's the hardware that makes more money especially after Nintendo has stoped making Wii commercials. Not to mention that you have to add accessories such as controllers to the hardware mix aswell. They will eventually profit more from software late in the hardware's life cycle, but both the DS and Wii are obviously still going strong, and by the time that happens, all the NintendyFanboys and Soccer moms in the world would already be waiting in line for the DS2 or Wii2.

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/report/FY07FinancialResults.pdf

page 20.

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/report/2QFY2008.pdf

page 21.

Nice to see the figures. I find it odd after all the PS2's success, it never had as successful year as the PS1 did in 1999.

It's easy to see when all the devlopment cost and promotional costs kicked. Sony seem to have done very weel for themselves, hopefully the effort they have put into rebranding the PS3 after all the delays and bad press will pay off over the next few years.

It's easy to see when all the devlopment cost and promotional costs kicked in. Sony seem to have done very weel for themselves, hopefully the effort they have put into rebranding the PS3 after all the delays and bad press will pay off over the next few years.

Well, possibly, but if you could see what was PS2 money and what was PSP (and PS3) money i'd bet the PS2 was more profitable.

Good! Now I will print and show this to all that people "PS3 cost 500$ so they have many profits..."

FY* Sony** Nintendo Microsoft
1998 974,000,000 629,000,000
1999 1,130,000,000 645,000,000
2000 730,000,000 421,000,000
2001 -409,000,000 726,000,000
2002 623,000,000 800,000,000 -750,000,000
2003 939,000,000 560,000,000 -1,191,000,000
2004 650,000,000 316,000,000 -1,215,000,000
2005 404,000,000 777,000,000 -485,000,000
2006 75,000,00 894,000,000 -1,262,000,000
2007 -1,969,000,000 1,489,000,000 -1,892,000,000
2008 -965,000,000 2,193,000,000 532,000,000
Totals 2,182,000,000 9,450,000,000 -6,263,000,000

Sony and Nintendo FY is form April 1st to March 31st. Sony's FY is FY+1 by their own terminology. MS is from July 1st to June 30th.

So Nintendo made more last year than Sony made for all their consoles combined? (PS1 + PS2 + PSP + PS3)

That is crazy!