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nemo37 on 29 January 2018
KLXVER said:
nemo37 said:

Of course...they are both publicly traded companies.

Well don't they have an obligation to share numbers then?

There are certain numbers that they are obligated to share but I don't think they need to share everything. Particularly for Microsoft, where the Xbox business is not really as large as some of their other businesses (Office, cloud, Windows, etc). While Nintendo does seem to share quite a lot more, they also don't share every data point they know about. For example, Nintendo knows the sell through rate of their systems (as evidenced by the 10 million sell through milestone for Switch they shared with their investors in December) but they do not regularly disclose those numbers but instead provide the shipped number.



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malistix1985 on 29 January 2018

Maybe because Nintendo their core business is games, its what they do. Sony does rely most on games but has a ton of other stuff and Microsoft does factor games as one of their important parts of their core business but its not the driving force behind the company.




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vivster on 29 January 2018

Surely because they're more committed to their fans than those filthy other companies.

Who knows, but until they give me specific numbers from their digital sales I don't care that they share slightly more information about their sales to shareholders than other companies.



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KrspaceT on 29 January 2018
vivster said:
Surely because they're more committed to their fans than those filthy other companies.

Who knows, but until they give me specific numbers from their digital sales I don't care that they share slightly more information about their sales to shareholders than other companies.

What's so important about digital numbers specifically, do tell?



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Platina on 29 January 2018

That's probably because Nintendo is mainly focused on games, so game and hardware sales are everything

Whereas Sony and Microsoft has a lot more



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rodea_sky_soldier on 29 January 2018
Mar1217 said:
You just got me hype for tomorrow sales figures +_+

tomorrow already?? I thought it was wednesday xD



vivster on 29 January 2018
KrspaceT said:
vivster said:
Surely because they're more committed to their fans than those filthy other companies.

Who knows, but until they give me specific numbers from their digital sales I don't care that they share slightly more information about their sales to shareholders than other companies.

What's so important about digital numbers specifically, do tell?

Those are the interesting numbers that will paint the full picture. Physical only sales data is basically useless nowadays.



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Miyamotoo on 29 January 2018

I think thats most because Nintendo is only gaming company so they go much more in details about their sales, while both and MS and Sony are much bigger companies and dont have only gaming for their business so they share less details.



vivster on 29 January 2018
RolStoppable said:
Because Nintendo is a video game company. They've also sold more consoles and games than anybody else.

 

Miyamotoo said:
I think thats most because Nintendo is only gaming company so they go much more in details about their sales, while both and MS and Sony are much bigger companies and dont have only gaming for their business so they share less details.

What do you mean "video game company only"? They just recently ventured into distribution of paper.



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KrspaceT on 29 January 2018
vivster said:
KrspaceT said:

What's so important about digital numbers specifically, do tell?

Those are the interesting numbers that will paint the full picture. Physical only sales data is basically useless nowadays.

Given the numbers they show tend to be higher than the Vgchartz numbers shown, I am pretty sure those numbers do in fact include digital. 

They just don't split things up a la, for example.

Kirby Star Allies

800,000 Physical Sales

400,000 Digital Sales

1.2 million sales Q2 2018. 



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