Being bored tonight, I randomly decided to compare game publishers in the top 150 or so software titles, to see what I would get when comparing various values.  Here's what I found.

Disclaimer: This data is not intended to serve any purpose; it is for entertainment purposes only.  Please don't use it to defend or attack arguments.

Million Sellers List
An observation of 22 companies and their status on the million sellers list

886 million sellers total (2,476,300,000 copies sold overall)
Average Sales per Title: about 2,800,000 copies sold

Sorted by copies sold


218 Nintendo published (945,100,000 copies sold overall)
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24.60% of titles (38.17% of copies sold)
+13.57% difference (1:1.5 ratio)


116 Electronic Arts (269,200,000 copies sold overall)
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13.09% of titles (10.87% of copies sold)
-2.22% difference (1:0.83 ratio)


70 Sony published (204,200,000 copies sold overall)
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7.90% of titles (8.25% of copies sold)
+0.35% difference (1:1.04 ratio)


9 Square (26,800,000 copies sold overall)
3 Square EA (15,300,000 copies sold overall)
8 Square Enix (21,800,000 copies sold overall)
12 Enix (31,800,000 copies sold overall)
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32 Square/Enix/Square-Enix (95,700,000 copies sold overall)
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3.61% of titles (3.86% of copies sold)
+0.25% difference (1:1.07 ratio)


43 Capcom (83,700,000 copies sold overall)
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4.85% of titles (3.38% of copies sold)
-1.47% difference (1:0.69 ratio)


33 Activision (76,500,000 copies sold overall)
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3.72% of titles (3.09% of copies sold)
-0.63% difference (1:0.83 ratio)


35 Sega published (68,200,000 copies sold overall)
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3.95% of titles (2.75% of copies sold)
-1.20% difference (1:0.69 ratio)


7 Bandai (8,400,000 copies sold overall)
25 Namco (57,400,000 copies sold overall)
1 Namco Bandai (1,100,000 copies sold overall)
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33 Bandai/Namco/Namco Bandai (66,900,000 copies sold overall)
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3.72% of titles (2.70% of copies sold)
-1.02% difference (1:0.72 ratio)


9 Rockstar (58,600,000 copies sold overall)
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1.02% of titles (2.37% of copies sold)
+1.35% difference (1:2.32 ratio)


16 Microsoft published (53,100,000 copies sold overall)
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1.81% of titles (2.14% of copies sold)
+0.33% difference (1:1.18 ratio)


22 Konami (52,300,000 copies sold overall)
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2.48% of titles (2.11% of copies sold)
-0.37% difference (1:0.85 ratio)


18 Eidos (38,700,000 copies sold overall)
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2.03% of titles (1.56% of copies sold)
-0.47% difference (1:0.77 ratio)


21 Ubisoft (38,600,000 copies sold overall)
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2.37% of titles (1.56% of copies sold)
-0.81% difference (1:0.66 ratio)


10 Vivendi (24,900,000 copies sold overall)
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1.13% of titles (1.01% of copies sold)
-0.12% difference (1:0.89 ratio)


7 RedOctane (17,400,000 copies sold overall)
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0.79% of titles (0.70% of copies sold)
-0.09% difference (1:0.89 ratio)


3 Blizzard (16,100,000 copies sold overall)
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0.34% of titles (0.65% of copies sold)
+0.31% difference (1:1.91 ratio)


6 Infogrames (11,200,000 copies sold overall)
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0.68% of titles (0.45% of copies sold)
-0.23% difference (1:0.66 ratio)


1 Sierra (7,900,000 copies sold overall)
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0.11% of titles (0.32% of copies sold)
+0.21% difference (1:2.91 ratio)


1 Broderbund (7,800,000 copies sold overall)
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0.11% of titles (0.31% of copies sold)
+0.20% difference (1:2.82 ratio)


1 id Software (2,800,000 copies sold overall)
1 GT Interactive (3,800,000 copies sold overall)
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2 id/GT (6,600,000 copies sold overall)
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0.23% of titles (0.27% of copies sold)
+0.04% difference (1:1.17 ratio)


2 Rare (6,400,000 copies sold overall)
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0.23% of titles (0.26% of copies sold)
+0.03% difference (1:1.13 ratio)

 I hope you've enjoyed this analysis. 

You must have a lot of free time to do this analysis,

Heh. It took me all of 1 hour. When I'm bored, I do strange things like this.

look at Nintendo's ratio
Nintendo is keeping the average so high

The ratios aren't really that terribly useful; they just tell you the relative success of that company to the average. For example, Rockstar's success rate is very impressive with their average sales being 2.32 times the overall average, but they have only 9 games released overall. Meaning that their overall impact on the million sellers list at large isn't great, but their individual success is quite high. As you can see, the perspective provided by having all data helps put these things in a large-scale context, as well as smaller contexts.

Nintendo is king
EA and Sony are juggernauts
Capcom and Square Enix top it off

that why is siad that Nintendo is keeping the average up

cause their 1,5 ratio is based on more than 200 games, so it does have a great overall impact

It's very true that Nintendo's not having any difficulty staying ahead of the curve. Ubisoft seems to be having the most trouble of these 22 in reaching the average, but seeing as the games in the top 150 are raising the bar so much, that's not surprising at all.

nintendo will break the 1 billion copies sold probably sometime in this summer

 just remember that these are only the million sellers.  the games that sell over 500k dont get included.

very good analysis.  only one more thing, could u list how many games each company has actually published/developed?