has nintendo ever lost money 1 finanscal year or will it happen

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Kenology on 05 April 2008

@ Ajax

Stop hatin'!

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NJ5 on 05 April 2008

amp316 said:
I'm not an expert but when you lose money every year like Microsoft has regardless of how much money you have, don't you think it might be time to get out while you can? I know Bill Gates has enough money to do whatever he wants but I don't understand the point.

Now is not a very good time to use that argument, since Microsoft has made money in their Entertainment division for two straight quarters.

Granted, they're still in the red in terms of total figures, but Microsoft didn't enter the console business while thinking they'd make easy money (only someone dumb would think that, since there are a lot of buried bodies in the cemetery of failed consoles).

Nope, now more than ever is when Microsoft should stay in the business - they're making money and they're fending off Sony's attempts to dominate the media center business and customers' living rooms.

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mariozeldametroid on 05 April 2008

What COULD get Nintendo killed? And if it wouldn't ever get killed, when would it become the longest existing company ever?

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ikilledkenny on 05 April 2008

Don't think Nintendo will have a loss for a long time, and they probably haven't lost money since before the Famicom.

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Qly on 05 April 2008

I agree with Ajax, the gameboy has always been succesful, and a money machine, even more so than the wii, they always played it safe with the gameboy and were always market leader

Listen to the voice of reason, then do as I say.

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Viper1 on 05 April 2008

Celine is very close. It was a $189 million loss in Q2 2003 and it was due to a very poor exchange rate between the Yen and Dollar.

"Although, because of the trend of yen appreciation, foreign exchange loss was ¥22.6 billion ($189 million)."

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/report/fiscal2003.pdf

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tehsage on 05 April 2008

RolStoppable said:

A table that has been posted very recently and was easy to find:

All numbers in US-Dollars.

Source and and I'm assuming these are not just system sales, right?

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tehsage said:

RolStoppable said:

A table that has been posted very recently and was easy to find:

All numbers in US-Dollars.

Source and and I'm assuming these are not just system sales, right?

Ultimately, the source can only be the companies' financial reports, as that's the place to find those figures. For Nintendo, it's the profit of whole company, for the other two, it's the profit/loss of their gaming divisions (although Microsoft's entertainment division also includes the Zune and other stuff).

You can find those reports by searching for "X investor relations" on google, where X is the name of the company.

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tehsage on 05 April 2008

Well, I mean, this chart must have came from somewhere? I'm asking who compiled this and where did they get the figures form.

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FishyJoe on 05 April 2008

Just go to the companies and download their financial reports, that's where the numbers come from.

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