Weird, I thought the only 12 games to ever break 20 million sales on a single platform were all made by the same Japanese company.  They gotta be doing something right to have 12 global smash hit super-successes when no other company even sells games in that league.  Well I guess Duck Hunt was only big in America, but that's still 11 super-successful smash hits around the entire planet, all by one company.

Ooh, they also have 34 of the 50 most successful single-platform games.  Square has 1 of them.

But then again, Wada's half-right.  There's "the Japanese way," "the American way," and "the European way," and you can try all 3 of those at once with separate teams.  But there's also "the Nintendo way," and it's already succeeded globally.  Nintendo has a Canadian team and an American team, but they still have to watch out for Miyamoto sneaking into the office and making everybody start over from scratch every few months.

What about Sony, they're doing pretty well globally aswell. Then theres Capcom with games like Dead Rising, Resident Evil and Street Fighter, which seem to be more popular outside of Japan. And I think Konami did succeed with the Metal Gear series, that does well else where

I love ya Khuutra

Anyway, I could be mistaken myself.  Just saying what I got from the quotes.  Apparently not many here agree with me...

well wada isnt wrong, but yeah, that was the main problem-

lack of ps3 wii games was their main problem, but its true give JAPANESE RPG To japan they will sell

FFX sold well, even it had a japanese flavor into it, actually some people liked that about it

FFX was one of the first games to have full voice-acting. I'm inclined to believe that a lot of gamers didn't even realize how stupid it sounded because of the novelty of it all.

no longer can japanese companys rely on the japanese market to sell there product and the rest of the world be there cream, I remember back to a time where  Japan was king and  western  developers where seen as pc developers or else where owned by sony etc  and if not had some kind of connection, because consoles where a japanese affair . time goes on  no longer do japanese developers not named nintendo (and they are a seperate case as they have there own hardware and have become  like a giant disney like companty and can always rely on iterations of there evergreen titles  through lean  Gc times and domination)have a dominate ps1 ps2 that they can rely on to sell there stock through out japan and the world,because the days of putting out lots of rpg's etc on to the japanese market  and then on selling to the west  is gone,  japan is more and more a hand held place  and that is closer to the japan of old, PS360 is just to damn expensive and the Wii is seen as to much a closed shop to run to many software lines through it.

That's a narrow line to walk, though. The excesses of this generation have been as much about developer arrogance as about publisher craziness. While developers obviously work best in their element, primarily you shouldn't look at them as fixed into working on one type of game or one certain branch of games.

It's a matter of mindset, really.

Per Famitsu...

• Twilight Princess: 554,109
• Phantom Hourglass: 902,386
• Spirit Tracks: 690,422

So... the real enemy here is xenophobia!

If there is one thing Nintendo does well is cater to their fanbase.  Plain and simple.  And yes, the fanbase changes over time and with each generation of consoles.  But Nintendo continues to built on what they do that attracts a newer userbase not because what they do is different, but it's because what they do they continue to do well.  In contrast to the current SquareEnix, their attitude is "screw the fanbase and our roots" in an attempt to appeal to the masses which does nothing but water down the aesthetics of what made gaming great.  Squaresoft was the reason why I play console games.  Too bad they aren't Squaresoft anymore.