- They both devolop for the DS

- Practicly all there games are devoloped for one platform.

- All there big games are devoloped for one next-gen platform

decide

unfair comparison, Mistwalker only has released 2 games so far: Blue Dragon, and ASH

What?

Brand new developer with one game out (not reviewed well) Vs. Level 5 (Dragon Quest VIII, Dark Cloud 1 and 2, Layton 1 and 2, Jeanne D'Arc, Rogue Galaxy...)

I don't think I understand what you mean by "big," because Professor Layton is easily Level 5's biggest franchise.

Unless you count Dragon Quest. DQ IX is also on the DS, and VIII was for the PS2 (as in, not a next-gen console). 

I was refering to there budget, and it's obvious that White knight's budget is bigger than Layton's one.

Anyway, there have been a lot of Xbox Fans (including Mods) who have been comparing Mistwalker with Square-enix, so I guess we can compare them to Level 5.

By the way, the PS2 was current-gen when DQ VIII was released.

I don't think having a large budget makes a game "big." By that measure, Too Human is unquestionably the
biggest game ever release by a wide margin.

Obviously, Level 5's most expensive project is going to be on the PS3, because it is easily the most expensive platform to develop a game for. Should we conclude, then, that all games put on the PS3 are automatically the "biggest" games? I don't think so. That doesn't make the game their most essential asset, or the game with their best developers, or the game that will sell the most; I suspect Level 5's best developers have been hard at work on DQ IX for a couple years now, and I suspect both Layton and DQ IX will outsell White Knight Story.  

Obviously, you've touched a nerve with me here: it's a semantic argument, I know. I'm just tired of hearing games with big budgets and giant FMV trailers being called "big," even when they are handily outsold and outprofitted by other titles. There are big games with big budgets, but not all games with big budgets are "big." 

He is basically asking which company going forward will be better. the past is the past and its apparent that mistwalker dosen't have as much of a catalog of game compared to level-5.

so just line them up with recent releases for instance

ASH vs Layton
Blue dragon vs Rouge galaxy
Lost oddessy vs White night story

People will probably base it whether they like Sony (Level 5) or Microsoft (Mistwalker). I want to see Lost Odyssey before I make a judgement. Mistwalker is still new to the scene, but Blue Dragon was a bit of a disappointment. I've always been a fan of Sakaguchi, so I hope he makes a valiant return with Lost Odyssey. I got my 360 just because I'm a fan of Sakaguchi.

I do hope both can make some ground on S-E.  They need a good competitor.  I like SE of course, but they have been a bit lazier these days with their jRPG domination. 

Wow, this is unfair. You might as well throw in Atlus too.

Mistwalker (new company with one WW release game with mediocre reviews) vs. Level 5 (a full catalog of PS2 games, a growing DS selection and upcoming PS3 game) vs. Atlus (a company that rarely makes its own games, but has somehow amassed a group of raving fanboys anyway)

Level 5