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Thanks. I don't know if it is useful but I did a thread some time ago about recent third-party financial result ( with source link ).
See here:
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=13273



 “In the entertainment business, there are only heaven and hell, and nothing in between and as soon as our customers bore of our products, we will crash.”  Hiroshi Yamauchi

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Electronic Arts :


EA Annual net incomes / losses ( in US$ million ) :

FY 1999 ( end 31 march 1999 ) : 72.9

FY 2000 ( end 31 march 2000 ) : 116.8

FY 2001 ( end 31 march 2001 ) : -11.1 | Transition from 32/64 bit systems to 128 bit systems

FY 2002 ( end 31 march 2002 ) : 101.5 ( R&D : 380 )

FY 2003 ( end 31 march 2003 ) : 317 ( R&D : 400 )

FY 2004 ( end 31 march 2004 ) : 577 ( R&D : 511 ) | EA had 27 platinium games ( over 1 million units sold ) in this fiscal year, 6 franchises sold over 5 milion units.

FY 2005 ( end 31 march 2005 ) : 504 ( R&D : 633 ) | EA had 31 platinium games ( over 1 million units sold ) in this fiscal year, 6 franchises sold over 5 milion units.

FY 2006 ( end 31 march 2006 ) : 236 ( R&D : 758 )

FY 2007 ( end 31 march 2007 ) : 76 ( R&D : 1041 ) | EA's CEO : "[This transition has been] harder because of the complexity and harder because unfortunately, we bet a little bit on the wrong horse in focusing so much on the PS3 and Xbox 360, and to a lesser degree on the Wii. "

FY 2008 ( update to Q2 FY 2008 , end 30 september 2008 ) : -360 ( R&D : 250 )


Quarter break down ( net incomes / losses in US$ million ) :

Q1 2005: 24

Q2 2005: 97

Q3 2005: 375

Q4 2005: 8 ( 504 )

Q1 2006: 58

Q2 2006: 51

Q3 2006: 259

Q4 2006: -16 ( 236 )

Q1 2007: -81

Q2 2007: 22

Q3 2007: 160

Q4 2007: -25 ( 76 )

Q1 2008: -132

Q2 2008: -195

Q3 2008: -33

From EA Financial reports.

 

Sega Enterprise :


Sega had grown from a US$813 million company in 1989 - the year that the Genesis launched - to a US$3.6 billion dollar conglomerate by the end of 1993.


Profits in US$ million :


FY 1993 ( end 31 march 1994 ) : 230 | Sega best year ever

Partial FY 1994 ( end 31 march 1995 ) - from Q2 to Q3 : 165

Partial FY 1995 ( end 31 march 1996 ) - from Q2 to Q3 : 110 ( Sega forecast 163 )

FY 1996 ( end 31 march 1997 ) : 46.4 | Sega last profitable fiscal year

FY 1997 ( end 31 march 1998 ) : -389

FY 1998 ( end 31 march 1999 ) : -450

FY 1999 ( end 31 march 2000 ) : -398.1

FY 2000 ( end 31 march 2001 ) : -51.7 Billion Yen ( about US$ -438, US$ 1 = 118 yen )

FY 2001 ( end 31 march 2002 ) - first half FY: -169

I'm not sure about soundness of good old Sega net income. 

 



 “In the entertainment business, there are only heaven and hell, and nothing in between and as soon as our customers bore of our products, we will crash.”  Hiroshi Yamauchi

TAG:  Like a Yamauchi pimp slap delivered by Il Maelstrom; serving it up with style.

NJ5 said:
soccerdrew17 said:
just shows how people change other people quotes replacing their words with unjustified crap.

Fixed for this gen.

 


 :) Double Fixed.



Interesting.



Thx celine. :D



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One thing to note is that Sony and MS report operating income for their divisions, not net income.

This will be particularly pertinent for 2008 as Nintendo took a $900 million writedown on their net income, which is not reflected in the operting income. So even if Sony or MS show an operating profit for their division, they may actually have a net loss and it may be impossible to tell from the reports. 



Another thing to report is that these sort of reports are built on standards, rules and regulations that are made to make them as true to reality as possible, but that there is no way to count any of those numbers as true. THey are more like guidelines to what the result might be.



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