I wish Microsoft and Sony would state how many games have shipped 1m copies, like Nintendo does at some quarterly reportings.
For example, we saw that Wii has 36 games to ship 1m copies, while VGC lists only 29 million-sellers. DS, similarly, had 69 million-shippers.
Simple shipment totals would give us the best apples-to-apples comparisons. There may be some games to ship 1m and not sell 1m, but any attempt to track worldwide sales is going to be less reliable than a console maker simply tracking what goes out the door.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
