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LGBTDBZBBQ on 29 September 2020
JWeinCom said:
LivingMetal said:

An interesting look.  Seemingly, no "traditional" handhelds.  Regardless, Nintendo is King.

Brands With Best-Selling Video Game Consoles 1972 - 2019

But... how is Nintendo king when Sony's bar is bigger?

Nintendo operating profits is giant while sony playstation division operating profits is really small like a mice in comparison 



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Slownenberg on 29 September 2020
OTBWY said:

Wait a sec. It doesn't count handhelds but it does count Nintendo Switch. I call shenanigans, I was convinced on this site that the Switch was handheld only!

Well let me just post this one then.

That's cool. So Sony is at 550 million now and Nintendo is careening towards 800 million next year. It's crazy how Gameboy was like in the 40 millions after the length of a full generation and then Pokemon came out and it ended at 118 million. Probably the only other game in history to even come close as such a monumental system seller is Wii Sports, but even that isn't in the same league.



JWeinCom on 29 September 2020
LGBTDBZBBQ said:
JWeinCom said:

But... how is Nintendo king when Sony's bar is bigger?

Nintendo operating profits is giant while sony playstation division operating profits is really small like a mice in comparison 

In most years, but not others, but this topic wasn't about that.



TheBraveGallade on 29 September 2020
Agente42 said:
Shadow1980 said:

Their graph looks like it scales oddly over time, almost as if they just calculated the brand's total sales to date and just had it grow at a constant rate since the brand's inception, regardless of how fast or slow a particular system in a given generation was selling. For example, they had PlayStation at well over 250M units sold in 2006, even though total lifetime shipments of the PlayStation brand was only at 217.85M by Dec. 30, 2006. But the PlayStation brand (sans handhelds) has sold about 450M units as of the end of 2019, so that part is accurate.

Anywho, here's a regional breakdown of the post-crash Big Four:

Nintendo is still #1 in the U.S. and Japan, but largely by virtue of being around the longest. PlayStation has managed a better average because of fewer systems. The U.S. is also the vast majority of Xbox sales since 2001, and the Xbox brand isn't terrible compared to PlayStation (approaching 28.5M per gen, vs. 34M per gen for PS) despite the massive disparity between the PS2 and OXbox.

Europe meanwhile is obviously PlayStation Country, with the brand representing the majority of all home consoles ever sold in the region. European gamers largely ignored consoles until Gen 5, at which point PlayStation quickly emerged as the clear favorite.

and the portable market?

wait its all nintendo?

always has been