JRPGfan said:
This is a list of 661 games released for the GameCube video game system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GameCube_games
It doesnt seem like a "beast" in terms of software availablity. Playstation 2, had over 2500+ PS2 games. |
Its almost like this metric is totally useless
| etking said: Really interesting. All failed consoles, including SAT, DC and Xbox (outside of the US), have the highest numbers. The nubers also seem to indicate the level of failure. |
It means your numbers remained high because they didn't have the length of time and sales numbers needed to see those numbers drop , early console life sees an influx of games to a new system at a much higher rate than later in the consoles cycle ,this was even more so for the likes of PS1, because it was essentialy a clean slate you had a slew of new games coming from every direction all trying to impact the system, this with Sony buying up UK developers who now focused on PS with their old and new IP's rather than amiga , atari st and PC also helped inflate those numbers.
Now has time goes on this rush tends to lessen has each new console is seen as more of a continuation from the last one rather than a new beginning.
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trent44 said:
Hardware power is difficult to quantify on a standardized scale. The best I could imagine is some sort of composite score of a console relative to the composite score of the best PC build available the day that console launched. But, even then composite test methods arent even entirely indicitive of hardware power across day and date hardware with a different OS... Much less, the vast span of achitecture changes that have occured across all the console generations, and thats before even getting into game engine optimizations for each platform, etc. In a sense, we would probably only have the same general guess as to which console was more powerful that each other without a proper standardized scale to compare ratios of how much that effects things. |
It is easy to quantify with the examples I mentioned. And it's even easier today when certain consoles are so far behind the curb that it's not even funny anymore.
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"Games per million" lol. Games per console would've been too easy and explicit, right? 
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30,344 
Basically, the less popular the system, the larger its game library will be relative to systems sold.
vivster said:
You could also correlate the ratios to the hardware power of the console. Apparently a powerful console no matter their userbase will still gat a certain baseline of games. The Sega consoles, GC and Xbox were all particularly powerful within their generation. Maybe because it's easier to port onto strong hardware? I guess we'll never know. |
No, it's the low sales of the hardware. Some basic game support leads to high numbers in these metrics, if the consoles sells bad. The number is more interesting for more successful consoles.
trent44 said:
I used Vgchartz.com for total hardware sales of each console, and wikipedia.com for game library sizes, which can be found on each of the "List_of_(console)_games" pages. If there are better and equally accessable sources that you know of, I would like to know. |
I don't know sources at all, that's why I asked. Thanks for the information.
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