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Case Microsoft’s Xbox

Billion

Nintendo 3 .6 Billion

Sega 1 .9 Billion Looking at the numbers above , we see that Nintendo and Sony have a huge amount of cash and their balance sheets are strong . However , Sega is losing money . Nintendo has always been in the gaming business and that is why their balance sheet reflects the balance sheet of a gaming company , the point to note here is the fact that currently Nintendo does not have a hit game in the market . However , they have lots of cash this cash is the result

of the profits they have made on their previous gaming consoles and currently by selling games for those gaming consoles

It is important to note that Nintendo has lots of money and a strong balance sheet courtesy their gaming business . What is also important is to note that Sony has been losing a lot of money on their consumer electronics business and the profits from its gaming arms is right now subsidizing all its other loss-making businesses

Considering how the current players in the gaming industry are performing on their financials , we can easily say that all of them are making money except Sega that has not had a major share in the gaming industry for the last many years . In other words , you have to fail for several generations of gaming to not be making profits or money . The margins in the gaming industry may not be as strong as the margins that we currently enjoy in the software industry but the margins are very attractive and they are worth investing time effort and money into

We have the capability to integrate things and we have been working with our technological partners for many years to make products that provide connectivity , speed and value for money to the...

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