Global Hardware 18 April 2020 - PS4 and Xbox One Sales Up Year-on-Year

[DonFerrari]

LatiosGames said:

the-pi-guy said:

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.

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.

Using this line of though we can say that no home console from Nintendo or Microsoft was successful because they haven't sold more than 110M?