| BuckStud said: While gamers love to wage war against each other as to who has the better system, the companies that make these systems have a different war to fight. While companies try to provide a product or service that their user base wants, in the end, it all comes down to being profitable. Of the big three video game system manufactures left, one has shown time and time again that they have what it takes to remain the king of video games. While Sony & Microsoft have their hands in a little bit of everything, Nintendo has stayed very focused on what they know and love. I think that the chart below of the top 50 selling video games of all time tells a lot about which company is truly committed to video games. This chart speaks for itself. |
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What does selling a lot has to do with commitment to video games? Are COD developers more commited than the developers of Xenoblade or Ni No Kuni?
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No, it doesn't. Prima facie one would assume that games on ps3/360 sell much worse than games on Nintendo platforms. Far from the case. Games made by Nintendo do well, but games made by third parties not as much. An uneducated on this matter person could easily not see this. NDS is one is one of the best selling consoles of all time and still hasn't sold as much software as consoles with significantly less hardware sales. Same for ps2 (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
Needless to say, these numbers are impressive. What's less impressive is that most sales come from a few franchises. This is both good and bad, as Ninty doesn't have to work hard on innovation in terms of new ips (though the motion controllers were a revolution). Ps3 doing horribly for ps standards ended up being great for ps fans, as we got some of the best games ever this generation.
