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tolu619 on 28 June 2009

Answers,facts not speculation please.



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FootballFan on 28 June 2009

You might want to ring Sony and Microsoft for the facts, otherwise your just going to get speculation.



ShadowSoldier on 28 June 2009

What FF said. Anyway I know for a FACT that MS makes most of their billions from Windows and I also know that during the PS2 era Sony's gaming division made them the most money



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goddog on 28 June 2009

we have no real idea, and since sony has followed MS lead and burying the game division in another division, we will never have good numbers only guesses



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NJ5 on 28 June 2009

By income I suppose you mean revenue, since the game business doesn't always generate profits for MS and Sony.

In the last fiscal year:

MS: 13.4% (though this includes other stuff in the Entertainment division which is not all games)
Sony: 13.6%

Sources:

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY08/earn_rel_q4_08.mspx
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/viewer/08q4/



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ymeaga1n on 28 June 2009

Do you mean how much is they from the sale of games rather than the sale of consoles or how much their respective gaming divisions make?




waron on 28 June 2009

Sony is definitely losing money on many ps3 games(if not most of them) cause only few of them sold really well, but they are still making profit on psp/ps2 games and consoles.
most MS profit goes from Xbox Live and Marketplace, Microsoft lost some money on games like Ninja Blade, Too Human and Project Sylpheed cause those are the only games that flopped on 360 that MS released.



non-gravity on 28 June 2009
waron said:
Sony is definitely losing money on many ps3 games(if not most of them) cause only few of them sold really well, but they are still making profit on psp/ps2 games and consoles.
most MS profit goes from Xbox Live and Marketplace, Microsoft lost some money on games like Ninja Blade, Too Human and Project Sylpheed cause those are the only games that flopped on 360 that MS released.


Games make a profit at lower sales than you think



theRepublic on 28 June 2009
non-gravity said:
waron said:
Sony is definitely losing money on many ps3 games(if not most of them) cause only few of them sold really well, but they are still making profit on psp/ps2 games and consoles.
most MS profit goes from Xbox Live and Marketplace, Microsoft lost some money on games like Ninja Blade, Too Human and Project Sylpheed cause those are the only games that flopped on 360 that MS released.


Games make a profit at lower sales than you think

Did you know that only 20% of all games on the market make a profit?



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non-gravity on 28 June 2009
theRepublic said:
non-gravity said:
waron said:
Sony is definitely losing money on many ps3 games(if not most of them) cause only few of them sold really well, but they are still making profit on psp/ps2 games and consoles.
most MS profit goes from Xbox Live and Marketplace, Microsoft lost some money on games like Ninja Blade, Too Human and Project Sylpheed cause those are the only games that flopped on 360 that MS released.


Games make a profit at lower sales than you think

Did you know that only 20% of all games on the market make a profit?

That percentage is pretty random

And the industry as a whole must surely be making a profit.

I'll believe Ninja Blade didn't make a profit. Too human might have broke even.

And Sony isn't producing that big bombs