Millions of Consoles Sold VS Game Library Size

[JRPGfan]

vivster said:

mirf said:
It is wrong to divide by number of sold consoles. Such platforms like Saturn or Gamecube have advantage of very few sales and most games of its library are cheap garbage that has been released for all platforms. I think it would be indicative to divide each platform's total games by years when developers were being active but not userbase.

It's perfectly alright for this comparison. The high ratios on console with very small userbases just strengthen the point. I doubt anybody thinks any better of the GC or DC when looking at those ratios.

Every gaming platform has trash software, just look at the inflated PS1 ratio.

Id say the big numbers are the take aways.

Dreamcast at 77 score is telling, it was the last system they sold... it basically killed sega as a console manufacturer.

Look at the first Xbox, at 42.4 score... again not really a well recived console.

The XB360 is where MS fixed things and sales went well again and, thats back to a 14.2 score.

 

So basically if your console scores over 30 in this "metric" your console is in a dangerzone.