*reads nintendo row*

I... I'm... speechless...

I'm pretty sure that if fries would lose a billion dollars every year, and McDonalds would close the latest fiscal year with $ 1 billion loss, they would have a very, very, very good reason to discontinue fries, unless they can hope that it will return the investments. 

( Sony posted such a result a few months ago, I think it was about fiscal 2009?)

Edit: I found it: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/sony-reports-USD1-billion-loss

Wow, the information you give seems pretty good to me, considering how you know the sales of the 1990's

Does this mean that Nintendo has near $29 billion worth of cash reserves?

nintendo does have  a huge cash reserve  but no it doesn't mean that at all

Isn't R&D and cost of buying stakes in companies factored into their earnings report? Where would the rest of that money go apart from to pay dividends.

Nice charts. Could be easier to read if you put headers for whom which column is for. I mean, I should have to deduce that the first column is Sony's based on process of elimination.

This thread is old as shit?

well as you said, a lot of that money is being paid out in dividends. Nintendo also invests a fair amount into property which i'm not sure is included in this table

haha, look at the totals. Sega finally beat Sony!