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ctk495 on 20 August 2008
flames_of said:
Cougarman said:
obieslut said:
wow, i am surprised microsoft just doesnt buy out ninty all together or sony for that matter.

 

microsoft tried to buy nintendo last gen, but Yamauchi former nintendo chairman told them no

Whoa... That would have been epic
And industry changing...

 

 

Microsoft would have easily beat sony.



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bdbdbd on 20 August 2008

Wasn't the Nintendo figure FY 2008 and i believe Sonys FY 2008 is the current one, so there shouldn't be 2008 figures but for Q1.

Anyway, the amount of profit doesn't equal with "money that can be spent on videogames". For example Sony has many businesses, into where the money has to be spent and as a rule, you could say that businesses that make money are worth investing. So, they arent going to give life support for businesses, that aren't making them money.
In order for SCE and M$:s entertainment division to be able to continue, they need to focus on making profit, instead of being moneyholes, so the companys overall profit doesn't have much to do with the money that they invest to games.
Sony has stated that they may not recover the PS3 losses with the system, M$ aims to make profit with 360, which are clear signs, that they won't be investing huge amounts of money for the consoles if you can't get the money back.



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Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.

bdbdbd on 20 August 2008

@a12331: I don't know what were you thinking, but Sony has posted negative profits in quite a few years and Nintendo has been making profit since 1889.



Ei Kiinasti.

Eikä Japanisti.

Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.

 

Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.

Exblackman on 20 August 2008
a12331 said:
Exblackman said:

No the thing this tells me that nintendo with only a gaming division is almost as profitatble as sony's entire company and those figures for nintendo are for last year they may have cut the difference even more by now.

By the end of the generation nintendo may be worth more than sony and maybe even be able to buy a decent percentage of the company or EVEN buy majority share that would shake the very foundations of the gaming and entertainment community.

This is by yearly profits and not overall, so nintendo still has to catch up to sony yearly then it has to beat them for many years

 

I was using sarcasm I know there is no way nintendo could buy sony I was just annoy with all "if who bought who stuff" no one is going  buy anybody.Sony does not make enough surplus income too and Microsoft doesn't want goverment to suspect of trying being a monopoly again. 

 



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ChichiriMuyo on 21 August 2008

Actually, with a couple more years of profits like Nintendo has had it's quite possible they could buy Sony out via hostile takeover. They don't have enough to cover the 38 billion Sony is worth plus extra for stock holders, but their surplus is enough that if Nintendo wanted to take a stab at it, they aren't too bad off.



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astrosmash on 21 August 2008
a12331 said:

This thread is to show how much money each company makes a full year. This can show how much they can spend on their repected gaming departments.

Microsoft = 17.681 Billion (2008)

sony = 3.694 Billion (2008)

nintendo = 2.633634 billion  (2007)

they all made loads of money and looking at Microsoft's profits they can spend all they want.

 

 

 It doesn't really tell you that at all. Nintendo could take on debt if they needed to finance something absurdly expensive. On the other hand both MS and Sony would get out of gaming if their gaming division started to lose as much money as the rest of the company makes.

 

Sure MS has lost a lost of money over the history of XBox, but they haven't lost $17 billion per year. And while PS3 has lost a lot, they haven't lost $4 billion per year; and even with the losses PS3 did incure heads rolled, if they had been triple what they were and ongoing Sony would have killed its gaming division by now.