The most impressive part is without a doubt the fact that they have so many IPs that are selling these numbers. Whereas if you look at Nintendo it’s always the same Mario and Pokémon, barring the occasional lightning in a bottle Wii Sports type success. And of course Zelda has finally broken the 10 million barrier after over 3 decades. MS on the other hand deserves no mention as they have ever only been able to make one 10 million seller and that was over a decade ago when Halo 3 did it.

Pokemon, Mario (kart, 3d, 2d), Zelda, splatoon, animal crossing, smash bros. With almost every  other franchise also having growth on the switch. Nintendo already have 5 games over 10 million  compared to sonys 4 (last of us doesnt count it counts ps3 + ps4) with a third of the userbase sony has in a much shorter space of time. Also a large portion of Sony's games are sold at a discount.

Also go back to the Wii/ds era and nintendo had 19 games sell over 10 million, 10 games over 20 million and 5 over 30 million. Don't get me wrong Sony is doing great and I hope they keep growing but they ain't anywhere near this level yet. 

Spider man on ps4 is being sold on Amazon for the same price as Mario kart Wii $35. An almost 11 year old game is being sold at the same price as a game that came out about 6 months ago.

And amazingly, Mario Kart Wii has sneaked into Amazon's best sellers list a few times, showing incredible staying power after almost 11 years since its initial release.

The Wii has long passed its glory days, but MKWii continues to live on 30+ million and counting.

I'm sure someone has already said this somewhere in this thread, but I'm not reading through 250 comments to find it.....

there are two, very obvious, primary factors for this increase in sales of their first party title. First, is the fact that their systems has sold much better than last gen. that's obviously of critical importance to selling more games.

But, the other major factor, and the more interesting ones, at least to me, is that the quality of their games has greatly increased. Pretty much every AAA title they publish is 85+ metascore, and just generally very good, if not great. And, when people have confidence that every game you put your name on is going to be good, they tend to buy your games.

As a person that plays on all platforms, I hope that Microsoft will step up and join Sony and Nintendo with consistently great first party games. I am cautiously optimistic that they will get there soon. It will be a great era for gaming if they do (assuming Sony and Nintendo continue with their consistent quality).

I definitely think Halo in its prime is just as successful as TLOU, but sadly those days are long gone 

It depends on your definition of successful.  But, in terms of legacy, general impact on gaming, and importance to the platform holder, Halo is definitely the most significant non-Nintendo first-party IP.  It's second only to the Mario family (though it is a distant second).  

Halo has lost a lot of it's shine.  But, that doesn't erase how big of a deal it has been, or the impact it had.

Just like we must combine MK8 Wii U + Switch sales, super amazing number, agree. 

A huge amount of people double dipped with the last of us. It's one of those games that almost everyone I know that bought it on ps3 bought it again on ps4. I'm sure it would be over 10 million if all it's sales were on just one console. But it wouldn't be close to 17 million. Are we going to say Mario kart 8 has sold over 23 million copies. How many copies of last of us were sold at full price? the game is currently $18 on Amazon.

I don't mean to offend you here, but this is the biggest load of nonsense I've heard on this site in a while. Your acting as if everyone literally migrated instantly from ps360 to ps4. The fact is most early adopters are going to be big Sony fans that in all likely hood already had the last of us on ps3. Just because it released on ps4 does not mean the entire potential audience moved to ps4. At this point the ps4 hadn't even sold 20 million yet. And most 3rd party games were still releasing on ps360.

I call bullshit on none of your friends rebuying the game. Either you have very few friends or your lying. If you said very few of your friends double dipped that would be more believable. 

Of course price matters the whole point of this thread is that Sony are entering Nintendo levels with there ips. Nintendo games don't go down in price Sony games do. That has a big impact on sales. If Sony games could do these sales at full price then they would be on Nintendo's level.

The paragraph about Zelda doesn't make much sense. I don't know what your trying to say here. 

I'm not trying to take away from the last of us. i m just saying the 17 million figure doesnt show the entire picture. Also the last of us is only one tiny bit of my argument. Probably the least important part of my argument.