surely you're aware of the obvious mistakes made with the Wii U though? you're acting as if NIntendo put out a top of the line system and failed or something. they still dominate the handheld market and put out a home console that had a name that made no sense (not at all like the Wii) and that was expensive for its capabilities and had a strange controller

I think its pretty obvious that if Nintendo had released a traditional console then their hardware sales numbers (handheld + home) would be matching that of the GBA and Gamecube era

at any rate you're trying to make a point about Smash and 3D world being behind at the moment but if the Wii U continues to be sold for another year or two its quite possible those leads will be erased anyway

using software as a way to make your point would be crazy, the 3DS has pushed way more software than Nintendo was pushing with their handhelds in some of their earlier generations and I would not be suprised if software sales wise the 3DS is beyond the GBA

Sonic Generations
Dragon Quest VIII
ZombiU and Bayonetta 2 will make it 54.
So in the end, I say 3DS+Wii U million sellers > GBA+GC million sellers.

here we also have a list of sony's million selling games from generation 6. youll notice two things: the first is that it is less than nintendo's 6th gen list and the second is that they did manage to pad their list with quite a few casual games. other than that, it is still a pretty respectable list with a lot of great games on it. it just isnt as long as nintendo's. i dont know if that settles any of the arguments that have occurred recently on this thread, but what we can gather is that nintendo has sold 10 more million selling games with a gen 6 install base of 55 million less than sony's.

Some of those games don't count for the comparison anyway, Final Fantasy & Kingdom Hearts aren't Sony IP.

I used vgchartz to come up with this list,  fileted by publisher and that is what it came up with. Apparently, Sony Copublished kingdom Hearts. I don'tknow about final fantasy though

Everybody in the industry considers concurrent devices as part of the same generation.  The only people that don't are those trying to win a debate.

here we also have a list of sony's million selling games from generation 6. youll notice two things: the first is that it is less than nintendo's 6th gen list and the second is that they did manage to pad their list with quite a few casual games. other than that, it is still a pretty respectable list with a lot of great games on it. it just isnt as long as nintendo's. i dont know if that settles any of the arguments that have occurred recently on this thread, but what we can gather is that nintendo has sold 10 more million selling games with a gen 6 install base of 55 million less than sony's.

Yes, I know Sony published them in certain regions but the topic is about IP they own. There are quite a bit of games Nintendo published in the west that I excluded since Nintendo doesn't own those IP.

Impressive! for the ps3 and the ps4 is going to top that oh man what a crazy gen for sony and plastation^^