Millions of Consoles Sold VS Game Library Size

[vivster]

JRPGfan said:

vivster said:

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.

You could also correlate the ratios to the hardware power of the console. Apparently a powerful console no matter their userbase will still gat a certain baseline of games. The Sega consoles, GC and Xbox were all particularly powerful within their generation.

Maybe because it's easier to port onto strong hardware? I guess we'll never know.