How Crash Team Racing beat Mario Kart at its own game

[JWeinCom]

Sahib said:

JWeinCom said:

Haha.  I ALMOST wrote at the end of my first post that I was sure you would add another criteria to explain why this didn't count, just like you did when someone used Rare as an example. 

However, EPD did create those franchises.  Under their old names, (Nintendo S&P and Nintendo R&D 1 and 2 before that).  These are just all different names Nintendo gave their internal development studio.   I chose to limit it to the games made under EPD because I needed to give them a bit of a handicap to make it a relatively fair fight ;). Of course I'm sure that you'll find a name change as a perfectly valid reason to discount their work.

At this point, I think this is trolling, but feel free to prove me wrong by explaining how making good games in a whopping 2 different genres qualifies you as easily the most diverse developer of all time. Cause honestly, that doesn't seem like much of an achievement.

So basically you're comparing the work of many devs over 3 decades against one developer. And then you also had the audacity to say that Nintendo EPD accomplished that over the course of only 3 years.

No.  I am comparing the work of one PART of one developer for 3 years against one WHOLE developer for 2+ decades.  All of the different development teams are part of one developer, Nintendo.  If I compared the entire output of Nintendo, it would be such a ridiculous blowout it would be pointless, so I stuck to one division of the developer.  But as a matter of fact, all of the different divisions that make up Nintendo EPD, and whatever they were called in the past, is all one developer.  One developer that has created 90+ titles and million sellers in way more genres than Naughty Dog.

But hey, if you don't like that one, let's see what other developers have 90+ titles in different genres...

Clover Studios- Action Adventure, Beat Em Up

Intelligent Systems-  Racing, SRPG, RPG, Puzzle, 

Ubisoft Montpellier-  2D Platformer, 3D Platformer

Camelot Software Planning-  Sports, RPG

Valve-  FPS, Squad Based Shooter, Puzzle

Platinum Games- Hack and Slash, Action RPG

That should probably be enough examples to show that making 90+ titles in two different genres isn't quite a massive accomplishment.  And I stuck to mostly smaller developers... but, I'm sure there will be reasons that none of these count.  

Last edited by JWeinCom - on 18 December 2018