One thousand million sellers!

[Viper1]

MontanaHatchet said:

Viper1 said:

MontanaHatchet said:
So, wait? Adjusted for undertracked games, the PS2 has more million sellers than Nintendo has ever published? I consider that impressive.

PS2 - 7,000 games according to Sony - likely closer to 3,000 because I think Sony counted each territory separately.

Nintendo - Published ~645 across all home consoles and handhelds.

 

So PS2 = 214 out of ~3,000 titles.

Nintendo = 229 out of ~645 titles.

 

So, why does the total amount of games matter? Ratios mean nothing. How many non-notable games does Nintendo publish relative to how many non-notable PS2 games? There are thousands of PS2 games that were gone and forgotten. Games that didn't have widespread appeal, games based off of a subject with a small audience (cricket, for example), and games that were incredibly bad or had no marketing whatsoever. So while Nintendo has games like these too, they're not nearly as numerous as for the PS2.

 

It was simply a counter post to ensure context.   Impressive the million seller PS2 count may be but the volume required to achieve it is easily 6 times as many titles.

 

Keep in mind those I counted included every title they've published which included stuff like the GB E-reader titles, the Famicom mini titles, Japan only re-releases, Virtual Boy, dozens of licensed arcade releases on GB, the whole BS Zelda series, N64 DD, 140 Japan only titles, etc....