Microsoft and Sony are two of the biggest companies in the world. Both have been producing widely adopted consumer and professional products for decades. In particular, each company produces competing gaming and entertainment consoles. Determining which company is actually bigger depends on what you’re measuring. If you go by the Fortune 500 list, you’ll find Microsoft was ranked No. 37 in 2012, while Sony, based in Japan, was No. 83 on the Fortune Global 500 list in 2012. Those rankings don’t tell the whole story, though, since the lists are based solely on revenue. For that reason, researchers use multiple metrics to get an overall picture of how big a company is. Writer Bio
