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babuks on 29 May 2011
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dsage01 said:
Jumpin said:

In terms of franchise strength, Microsoft dwarfs Sony, and Nintendo makes Microsoft look like a Hobbit. 

Sony may be one of the biggest in the Industry, they have released more games than either Nintendo or Microsoft, but those games have none selling over 10 million, in fact Sony's highest selling title sold only 6.2 million, and all titles combined sold under 80 million on PS3.

Microsoft, on the otherhand, has two titles over 10 million, and one title (Halo Reach) which is not far behind. Microsoft also released far fewer titles than Sony and sold over 100 million games.

Nintendo easily has the strongest franchises with 7 games which have sold over 20 million, and have sold a total of over 330 million titles sold on Wii alone. The accomplishment is almost double Microsoft and Sony combined.

 

In terms of quality, Microsoft has Halo, Nintendo has Mario and Zelda. Sony's top franchise is Gran Turismo, which does not hold nearly the same significance to the videogaming universe as the other three I mentioned. Most people don't even know what else Sony makes besides Gran Turismo, but everyone knows Microsoft does Halo, and Nintendo does Mario and Zelda. In terms of quality, Nintendo came out on top with Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 by reviewers standards, Halo also did well, but Gran Turismo disappointed.

I strongly disagree with you. Yes maybe this gen Nintendo made Microsoft and Sony look like hobbits but only because of one reason, bundles. Nintendo bundles everyone of thier superhit or superflop games. Games like Wii Sports, NWSB, Mario Kart are one of the most bundled games of all time. Now lets go on to Microsoft and Sony. First of all Microsoft has only 1 title that passes over 10 million which is Halo 3. I am not going to count in Kinect adventures because it is bundled with every single Kinect and every 360 that comes with Kinect. We all know that PS3 was off to a very slow start in 2006 and 2007 wasn't much of an improvment either. Though in 2008 Sony was going good with games like MGS4, GTA 4, and GT5 prologue Q4 was owned by the 360 due to many big launches so that made the PS3 once again behind the 360. The PS3 only started getting sales after Q4 2009 due to the slim and the pricecut. So if you look at all the Sony software sales after the year 2009 Sony beats Microsoft. Games like Uncharted 2, Gran Turismo 5, God of War 3, FF13, Killzone series God of War collection knocks out games like Halo Reach, Forza 3, Left 4 dead and Mass effect 2. 

@dsage,

I could not agree with you more...

If you consider sale to be the only standard, I would like to give an example. If people are offered only Halo, Gears, Fable and Forza they will buy these three as they don't have any other games. But if people are offered Uncharted, MGS, God of War, LBP, Infamous, Gran Turismo, Heavy Rain, Killzone, Resistance, Motostorm, Ratchet, Socom, MAG, Demon Soul, WKC, Yakuza, Heavenly Sword they will divide in buying games and buy according to their choice, thus lessening the sale of each ips individually. So, the argument of sale=quality does not stand here.