Mario, Pokemon and Donkey Kong are all Nintendo framchises though, and I didn't say all Nintendo franchises were more iconic that Playstation+Nintendo.

Rekt.

I suppose much of individual perception has to do with what generation a given individual is from and how long they have been actively following the industry, presumably as a consumer rather than as a casual observer.

I would argue that by the late 90s, the Playstation brand had eclipsed Nintendo as a gaming icon in terms of market relevance. Certainly by the 00s with the rise of the PS2, the Playstation brand was cemented as the default brand in gaming. However, Nintendo has more iconic internally created IPs than Playstation due to differences in how each company approached brand building.

For Nintendo, their brand was synonymous with their IPs and the characters that made them. That is strong branding considering that some of their most popular IPs date back to the 80s (Mario, Metroid, Zelda).

By contrast, the Playstation brand has new IPs with each generation that largely define a given generation's console software library. IPs that remain relevant over two hardware generations are rare exceptions in contrast to Nintendo's approach to each generation gets a new version of previously existing Nintendo IPs with omissions being the rare exception.

I said "People" not "All people", so you are wrong again.

Tyrranosaurus Rekt.

"Huh? Those Pokemon are all copies of each other!"

Toyota vs Honda

Apples and oranges.

Everyone's personal preferences are just pouring all over this thread.  So many shades of grey...

More people than sony's games at least, lol. Does Sony even have a single ten million+ selling franchise?

well 3 generation wins out of 4 can't hurt,let's see where the brand image is when this gen closes

But no,nothing will take Mario & nintendo down icon wise

Since when do we count remasters as extra sales of one game?

I guess Pokémon Red/Blue (green) sold 46M then.

So just GT then.

Well, this topic is going as well as predicted. One thing that's struck me while thinking on this is Sony isn't great at getting branded merchandise out in the wild. I see Nintendo stuff everywhere, even if the people wearing it doesn't play any longer. Yoshi backpacks, NES controller t-shirts, ?-block keychains & (NINTENDO) on a lanyard... but then again, you don't have other game publishers putting out mass market merch very often (aka, stuff you can find at Walmart or other very common retailers). That presence only further cements the icon of classic Nintendo.

I was talking about Pokémon Yellow though. TP was a cross-gen game, TLOU wasn't.