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xl-klaudkil on 22 August 2015

Is this a joke? The brand PlayStation is a lot bigger than Nintendo.
That bein said ninty has the most iconic characters ever in videogame history and that cannot be beaten.

Even in 100years from now people will stil know what mario is.

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Mr.Playstation on 22 August 2015

If Sony had kept either crash or Spyro as their mascot throughout all four generations, I think that by now Sony would be much more iconic than Nintendo.

I would go as far to say that even the Xbox brand name is much more iconic than PlayStation ( Exclusively In America ) as of now all because they have Master Chief.

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DerNebel on 22 August 2015

Goodnightmoon said:

DerNebel said:
In home console hardware it is already at least as iconic, the PS1 and PS2 massively expanded the market and especially the PS2 is still often considered to be the best console to date. It says a lot that the PS2 alone sold almost as much as all Nintendo consoles up to the Gamecube did combined.

Nintendo sold last generation the same number of consoles as Ps1 and Ps2 combined.

OT: No they are not, Nintendo games are way more iconic from a historical point of view.

Console =/= handhelds.

And you are, not surprising really, severely underselling the impact Playstation had on the gaming industry.

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TheSting on 22 August 2015

No. I don't think it ever will

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Qwark on 22 August 2015

Goodnightmoon said:

DerNebel said:
In home console hardware it is already at least as iconic, the PS1 and PS2 massively expanded the market and especially the PS2 is still often considered to be the best console to date. It says a lot that the PS2 alone sold almost as much as all Nintendo consoles up to the Gamecube did combined.

Nintendo sold last generation the same number of consoles as Ps1 and Ps2 combined.

OT: No they are not, Nintendo games are way more iconic from a historical

Is the DS a home console now? If you want to crunch numbers the total amount of home console playstations sold, without including 8th gen is around 300 million within 3 gens, that's almost the combined sales of Wii, GC, N64, SNES, NES, which is 6 gens. So looking on history Sony consoles tend to sell almost twice as good as Nintendo consoles.

So the name playstation is defenitly as iconic as Nintendo for homeconsoles and more relevant saleswise. If you are coming with the argument that Sony owed that succes to the fact that playstations where dvd and blu ray players, don't forget the Wii sold good due to a gimmick which didnt turn out well for Wii U, Wii was a better console with more high quality titels though. TLOU is pretty much iconic just as GOW and Uncharted not to forget Gran Turismo.

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Kotastic on 22 August 2015

Depends on pov

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AZWification on 22 August 2015

PlayStation consoles could be considered more iconic than Ninty consoles, but Nintendo's franchises will probably remain the most iconic. You just can't compete with the likes of Mario, Pokemon, Donkey Kong, Zelda, etc..

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Wright on 22 August 2015

No way. You see people all the time asking for Nintento to go third party, but rarely hear about wanting for Sony to go bankrupt and selling their games to other companies. Why? Because they know who's the real icon here.

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DerNebel on 22 August 2015

Wright said:

No way. You see people all the time asking for Nintento to go third party, but rarely hear about wanting for Sony to go bankrupt and selling their games to other companies. Why? Because they know who's the real icon here.

This is asking about PlayStation, not about Sony franchises.