the-pi-guy said:
LatiosGames said:
While some of Sony's games are critically praised how many are huge commercial successes? While some sell well most stall around 10 million with a few making it to the low teens. Out of the top 50 best selling games of all times 48 of them are Nintendo or 3rd parties with about half or more being Nintendo games. The last two are kinect adventures Microsoft's game around the middle of the list (yes the own Minecraft but that one is a odd case as it was a 3rd party that then they purchased once it was getting popular.) The other one is the last of us and the main reason why it made it was it was sold on two Sony platforms and it is currently at 49 to probably fall out of the top 50 once Nintendo updates their numbers as Mario odyssey is about to over take it and Pokemon will have once they update the numbers along with animal crossing maybe making a surprise appearance as the minimum to appear on the list now is 16 and a half million to appear on the list so this one will come in after next quarter. So that leaves the games they do make to be more critically praised than commercial successes. Why is that? It makes since that a lot of Nintendo games are there because they are very popular series which is why to this day the Mario franchise is still the best selling franchise with Pokemon and super Mario (which is a part of the mario franchise) being a distant 2nd and 3rd with COD and GTA behind them. So why hasn't Sony generated the same mass appeal for their games as if they did they would sell many more systems? |
1.) Since when is 10 million the bar? Out of 10's of thousands of games, only a small percentage sell even a million. Even fewer sell 5 or 10 million. Getting to the top 50 is a ridiculous bar for "being a huge commercial success".
2.) Because making good games, isn't the same thing as making popular games. There's a lot of overlap, but making popular games includes things like solid marketing. Not to mention that multiplayer games tend to be more popular. Is Wii Play a fantastically better game than any Sony/MS game? Is Wii Sports nearly the epitome of great gaming? The latter PS3 and PS4 gens were the first time that Sony had a major hit, largely because they got way better at pushing their own games.
Spiderman on PS4 seems likely to join the top 50. It sold 13.2 million in less than 11 months.
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it just is just seeing huge runaway successes and that they all seem to be Nintendo and no it wont unless it gets ported early on to the ps5 because even at 13 mill in 11 months its mainly competing with COD modern warfare which is selling pretty good and might squeak it out. It is also competing with Mario odyssey which is currently the game to beat to get in, Pokemon sword and shield which have passed odyssey, animal crossing which as sold much better and that is about it. Well in the bottom 50 there is the last of us and gta 3 which will probably fall off smash ultimate and breath of the wild which are moving up and Mario land. To get in you must do better than Mario land when the numbers come out here soon maybe gta 3 but still that is 17 mill.
