Nintendo: We're the only console producer with "powerful" software teams

[NanakiXI]

Sky Render said:

NanakiXI said:
Nintendo PR for you. At least Sony just said they were the best but Nintendo says "only" which is very untrue. Just because almost every game they push out can sell almost 5 mil + copies each doesn't keep their statements true. Microsoft and Sony are just as equal if or not better 1st party producers and they for the most part don't leave huge gaps between game release times like Nintendo.

I love you Nintendo but don't get cocky like Sony did last gen. You can be taken down and you're crown can be relinquished.

 I'm quite curious, what other statistically viable measure besides sales numbers of products would you propose we gauge this by?  "Quality"?  Last I checked, "quality" is a derived statistic: you cannot assign an absolute numeric score to it, despite what misunderstandings of how MetaCritic and review sites work might suggest.  Quantity of released titles in a given timeframe?  I fail to see how that's more useful than overall sales of units, seeing as a company that releases 100 products that sell 50,001 copies each is not necessarily better off than a company that releases 10 products that sell 500,000 copies each; more than likely they're worse off, as the overhead of producing something tends to cancel out the benefits of early sales.  I suppose you could go by revenue, disregarding that price is generally indexed in this sort of analysis to avoid the pitfalls associated with blatantly disregarding inflation, but even then, Nintendo would end up on top in the comparison simply by sheer volume.

 I guess my point here is, if you're going to be opposed to using something as the basis of comparison, at least make sure you have something of equal or greater reliability to replace it as the bellweather gauge.

 

My satement really didn't require a response. My only point is don't get cocky Nintendo. Really I just wasted as much time writing this back as your rebutle to my statement.