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Turkish on 26 August 2017
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KLAMarine said:
Turkish said:

Because Playstation is 1. more profitable and generates more sales

You're likely correct but I'd like to see some hard financial numbers to back this up.

Turkish said:

2. has bigger brand recognition

Hmm, perhaps... Google Trends is telling me for the past 12 months, Nintendo has gathered up more interest than PlayStation.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=playstation,nintendo

Not sure what to make of this, honestly. Add in xbox and one is in for a surprising result: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=playstation,nintendo,xbox

Also compare Nintendo's Switch's reveal trailer to PS4's reveal trailer:

 

What the latter took to reach in over four years, the former is on track to reach in about one. Another potential indicator of interest favoring Nintendo. Note PlayStation's higher sub count though...

There's also the chance that recognition and interest are two completely different things and should not be compared in this way... What say you?

Turkish said:

3. is a global brand which 3/4th of the world recognizes as the face of gaming

Three fourths of the world!? That's about 5.6 billion people... I'm having a very hard time believing this. How was this number calculated?

Turkish said:

4. one of the most valuable brands http://brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/global-500-2016

That's a table from 2016, I believe. http://brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/global-500-2017 is showing something slightly different:

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Nintendo's 355 to PlayStation's 479.

Turkish said:

Sony is worth more than Nintendo now, it's a simple google search really, I dunno why you guys use months old data, stocks aren't a static thing.

Sony market cap: 5,61T yen

Nintendo market cap: 5,33T yen

"I dunno why you guys use months old data"

Why do you? You linked http://brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/global-500-2016 which was from a year that ended over seven months ago.

Is not hard to look up latest financial reports. PS4 division made 17.7bn yen profit vs Nintendoes 16.2 last q, and they just launched their most popular console.

Playstation has bigger brand recognition, do a representative poll worldwide and more people will know Playstation than Nintendo, from all my travels in Europe, Middle East and Asia Playstation was the most associated with gaming. It's been a continuously used name for over 20 years. People might know the Wii and Gameboy individually but not the company behind it just like they might not know Sony is behind Playstation. Playstation makes big money and let others make big money, it's how 3rd parties survive. PSN until recently was making more money than all of Nintendo, that storefront alone is worth $.