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ihatefatkatz on 18 April 2015
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Ka-pi96 said:
ihatefatkatz said:

How so? By what measure? Sales? Recognition?

Sony total hardware sales = around 457 million

Nintendo hardware sales Sony entering the market =  around 450 (not including GB sales , which could be an additional 50 million)

Software sales Nintendo is far beyond Sony's reach.

Recognition? Nintendo is synonymous with Mario, a face that is iconic, a household name and instilled in gaming popular culture. Plus they have an impressive pool of IP's with far outreach like Donkey kong , pokemon and Zelda.

If you said as a brand for home consoles, then I would be inclined to agree. As a gaming brand? I'd argue differently.

PlayStation is the bigger brand, more people know of them. Average sales per console are way higher than Nintendo and total lifetime sales are fast catching up. The PlayStation name is synonymous with gaming, they can get huge consoles sales just by showing up, nobody else can do that. Both Microsoft and Nintendo have to actually try to get a decent level of sales, Sony have done the hard work and can now just sit back and reap the benefits.

You are not looking at gaming wholistically and just looking at home console sales, which smells of confirmation bias. Gaming is more than just making consoles, there's also a thing called "games". 

Besides, I've already pointed since Sony entered the market, Nintendo has more or less sold the same amount of consoles. In software sales, Sony is not even in the competition.

To illustrate my point further, take for example Nintendo's announcement of entering the mobile market.

Sony has already made mobile games with playstation mascots and no one gives a shit; when Nintendo announces their entrance into the mobile market, the community and analyst go in a frenzy. Why? Because with its affinity for game development and strong IP pool, Nintendo can make huge waves in the biggest gaming market.

@bold, the PlayStation brand didn't exactly help the vita.