taladar comments on What is the point of Xbox?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Say what you will about Sony and Nintendo but they have output and they care about gaming because they have to, it’s the only way they make money.

You are aware that Sony makes lots of other things besides games too?

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[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Take a look at Sony’s annual reports and then get back to me. PlayStation is the engine that drives the company.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe you should take your own advice, according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/297533/sony-sales-worldwide-by-business-segment/ for the latest available year there (2022) the business segment "Game and network services" is only around 26 billion out of 88 billion total.

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[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

The sale figures are a bit misleading as the different sections also have different costs (sales make games look more important).

The corporate reports are archived here, and the equivalent per-section breakdown is on page 37 of the 2023 report.

When comparing operating revenue (i.e. profit) the breakdown is:

section	billion yen
games and network services	250
music	263
pictures	119
entertainment technology & services	180
imaging & sensing solutions	212
financial services	234
other	17

So it looks like they made a little more profit from music that year.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I stand by my point.

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