Probably, because Microsoft and Sony (unlike Nintendo) have many divisions, they only show the taxes' effect to the overall results instead of each and every division.DarkMehm said:Operating income are the earnings before taxes and therefore the middle line. Nintendo always lists all three of them, but I'm not sure how Sony handles that.
I don't know if there's a legal/economical reason for doing that, but I guess it boils down to the fact shareholders will get their share of the profits from the overall results and not by division. =P