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Player1x3 on 05 August 2012
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Mandalore76 said:

 

Turkish said:

You're just in denial, its hard to fathom how a 12 year old console and its bigger brother that was called the next Dreamcast outsell the competition this much. What matters is how much a company sells their console, you shouldnt limit yourself with pathetic quotas like "same market, same generation". Don't hate the player, hate the game.

 

 

I can add multi-generational stats too:

Gameboy (118.69 mil) + Gameboy Advance (81.51 mil) + Nintendo DS (152.33 mil) + Wii (96.37 mil) = Nintendo 448.90 million

Play Station (104.25 mil) + Play Station 2 (153.68 mil) + PSP (74.86) + Play Station 3 (65.52 mil) = Sony 398.31 million

See what I just did right there?  3 Nintendo Handhelds and their current console lead the entire Sony console family and their main selling portable by 50 million units.  Now, does my edition serve any other purpose than to show a grouping of Nintendo products housing the same # of Sony products in sales?  Honestly, no it doesn't.  And, that's what I think of not just this specific thread, but of any cross-generational/cross platform argument.  There are variables taking place in other generations that make it senseless to compare them to the one you are currently living in. 


Except that you counted 4 handhelds there, not 3. Gameboy AND Gameboy Colour TOGETHER sold 118 million untis. Kinda unfair to compare 5 systems to only 4 systems, no? And the fact remains that sony made 5 PS systems and sold together lets say 402 million untis, averages about 80.4 M untis sold per system and Nintendo sold about 565 million hardware units off of 11 major game systems, averages about 56.4 M untis sold per system. So your point is still flawed