The OP was comparing any one game to any other one game.

You will need to apply that logic to systems.

BTW, the DS sold over 150 million. Or were you ignoring PSP & PS Vita sells to make Sony look better, by excluding Handheld Consoles. Unlike Handhelds which are just phones & tablets.

Rap music is the most liked music in every country, and Anime becomes liked by more people in each country with each year that goes by.

Anime would have already reached way more people by now, if it had started from America.

Nintendo is liked most, in most countries.

Rapper Psy has near 2 billion hits on YouTube, I might add.

From what I can tell they used to make games for Sony and Nintendo prior to last generation where they switched to just Nintendo, and they appear to be a subsidiary of Nintendo much like the way Rare is a subsidiary of MS.  Still, owning a company that made a game is not the same  as making it yourself so I believe you are confused on this matter.  It's made by another developer who is owned now by Nintendo, not really the same as being made by Nintendo in house.  

Don't people give MS crap about buying other stuidos to make games exclusively for their platform?  Guess Nintendo is not above it either.  

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http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2014/140130e.pdf

35 million

I am sure they think they are better than everyone else as well, hence why they have so many issues with third parties.

A day later and people are still falling for Rol's trap.. Fascinating.

I was talking about Monolith, but fair enough.

I think the OP's point is mostly flame baiting nonsense, that said there's a fair arguement to be made that no publisher consistently puts out as many quality games per year as Nintendo does when their full software output is taken into account.

Last year they released Super Mario 3D World and Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, both of which scored extremely high, then you also have Fire Emblem, Pokemon X/Y, Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3, and Luigi's Mansion which were all high quality games.

@RolStoppable

Unless you're a joke account, I have no idea of why would you incur into these fallacies:

People put money on what they know (advertisements and marketing campaigns ring you a bell?) and what they think they will like (first they pay, then they play). Also, different products sell to different audiences. What a 5-year-old kid likes (probably Nintendo kindergarten games) is different from what I like (trully deep games with complex gameplay and structure). And what an inexperienced gamer may value (basic and repetitive experiences) is different than what makes me amazed with a game (simulation experiences and unique contexts/environments).

If you don't believe me and you're still convinced that sales are a great quality indicator, then look at how mobile games crush Nintendo games and paltry mobile apps crush them even more. Look at how pop music easily becomes the best music genre and reality shows become far better than most of great movies, as well as Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey become the best books of recent years. For you this is very obvious...but not for me.

Third party software has many different meanings and you're playing with them. The average Sony/Microsoft game sells more than the average 3rd party game and that would lead to a very different conclusion. Naturally, Sony/Microsoft produce less games than the rest of the entire gaming industry and so you conveniently pick the totals to make an unfair statement that will do nothing but please your ego.

Furthermore, you certainly don't consider all 3rd party software (only 3rd party titles on Nintendo consoles, which is miserable) when comparing it to Nintendo 1st party games, otherwise Nintendo woul lose hard. But then in Sony's and Microsoft's comparisons you use their 3rd party titles, which is a totally different thing (and they sell much better than Nintendo 3rd party games btw). Thus, you're calling "X" to something and "X" to a different thing. Then you replace one X by the other as if it was pure logic and voilà, you get a false conclusion to put in the title of this thread.