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Bong Lover on 14 June 2009
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BladeOfGod said:
Bong Lover said:
BladeOfGod said:
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Maynard_Tool said:
Oh so after all... Nintendo, once again... was right. No wonder Miyamoto is considered to be the best game designer. And of course, Nintendo the best Video game company ever.

Kudos

No, its not.

To you, and anyone else who might walk this earth with the notion that there is or ever has been a greater videogame company than Nintendo, go check out the all times sales chart right here on VGChartz. Check the top 10, or top 20 or some such. If you are too lazy or shortsighted to realize that virtually every major innovation in the current videogame industry was pioneered by Nintendo, then at least seeing the list of the most iconic and best selling videogames should open your eyes.

There comes a time when claiming 'your opinion' just has to yield to facts. And the facts are that no matter which way you look at it, Nintendo is the greatest videogame company ever.

Sales doesnt prove they are the best. But if you still want to look at sales how about the fact Sony sold most consoles in last 15 years????

And i fail to see how Nintendo is the greatest when Sony and MS can buy that small company :)

So what metric do you think would be a better indicator of which company is the best? The company that dharh had the most fun with?Powerful and reliable products, big earnings, more employees...

If I wanted to argue what band was the best band ever, I could pick my personal favourite, The Butthole Surfers, and claim they are the best band ever. My argument would have no value outside the point that I really like them, anyone who would bring up for example The Rolling Stones would be able to demolish my argument by pointing to longevity, mass market penetration, volume of work and yes, total sales numbers among many other standards.

Translated into videogames, Nintendo is The Beatles, Sony is Blink 182 and Microsoft is Ace of Base. As I said before, at some point, you have to put aside your own personal opinion and concider facts. There's no meaningful way of claiming any other company than Nintendo to be the best videogame company ever.That's your opinnion

Edit: And in relation to Sony selling the most consoles the last 15 years. Not only is that cherry picking at it's finest, but it also redefines videogaming quite severely. If you consider the handheld market to be part of the videogame market like many people do, then I suspect the numbers tell a different story. Fell free to add up Gameboy, Gameboy advance, N64, gamecube, N64, Wii and DS numbers over the past 15 years, and compare it to the PS, PS2, PS3 and PSP and see how the numbers stack up. I don't know cause I can't be bothered to do it, but I suspect Nintendo would have a pretty good showing.I said most CONSOLES, not handhelds and Gameboy was launched way before original PlayStation, so its not fair comparison.Anyway, Sony sold 320 million consoles in last 15 years, Nintendo sold about 280 million consoles (i even added GBA and DS sales which are NOT consoles just to prove you completely wrong )

 

Yes, you did say most consoles. And I said that looking at console sales exclusively is cherrypicking when you are talking about which videogame company is the greatest. And even if you go along with your weird 15 year time frame and console only view, it's still easy to make the case that Sony's successful consoles were made possible by the work and innovation of Nintendo.

To be honest, it feels a little surreal to even have to debate if Nintendo is a greater videogame company than anybody else. As I said, look at the games and the cultural impact, sales impact, whatever and it's beyond me to think that there's people who can pretend that there's ever been a greater videogame company than Nintendo. Unless you're using 'greatest' in the meaning 'biggest in size' and comparing the videogame company Nintendo, to the two megacooporations Sony and Microsoft. In that case you would technically be correct I guess, but that is a dishonest use of the term 'greatest videogame company'.