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your article is very nicely done,,,get it published at n4g or some place and get some recognition for your hard work.(even publish it here at vgchartz in editorials section)

2 thumbs up for your quality post

Thanks Spartan.

I looked it up at N4G to see how I could perhaps send it in, but it appears I was beaten to it...

http://n4g.com/MemberZone/newslist.aspx

It doesn't contain graphs, and the set-up is kinda messy, but still, thanks to whoever did it :P (I'm assuming it was someone on the site)

Sony actually publishes more games for its home consoles year for year than Nintendo.

List of Sony published titles, year for year

List of Nintendo published titles, year for year

Sony certainly has its share of franchises (God of War, Gran Turismo, Jak & Daxter, Socom, just to name a few), but they tend to move onto new IPs more often than Nintendo, so their older franchises don't gain the notoriety of say Mario or Link.  For instance, Naughty Dog was known for it's Jak & Daxter games last gen, while this gen they've moved on to the Uncharted series.  Same can be said for Sucker Punch (of Sly Cooper fame) moving on to InFamous, and Insomniac starting the Resistance franchise.

Sony has such low first party numbers compared to third parties on the ps3 because of two reasons:

1. Many of their releases thus far have been new IPs, so they don't have the instant succes that older franchises might.  Team ICO is a perfect example of this.  They are in the upper echelon of game developers, yet their games will probably never gain any sort of significant notoriety.  Despite being related in mythos, it'd be hard to consider Ico and Shadow of the Colossus a franchise of any sort, let alone one recognizable by more than the most hardcore of gamers.
   
2. They've been slow to abandon the ps2.  Hell, God of War II released on the ps2 a whole five months after the ps3 launched.  Comparatively, Nintendo abandoned the GameCube outright, even making a former GameCube-only game a Wii launch title (Twilight Princess, the best game of the 6th generation, imo), resulting in 75% of the game's sales coming from the Wii platform.

Wow, that's interesting MakingMusic, I had no idea.

Just to add some numbers, I'll add some numbers to that.

Console : First party titles

Nintendo 64: 42 titles

Playstation 1: 75 titles

Gamecube: 49 titles

Playstation 2: 84 titles

Wii: 25

Playstation 3: 20

So this generation is the first since Sony entered that Nintendo has made more games than Sony on their home console.

Handhelds:

DS: 82
PsP: 58


For million sellers:

N64: 31 million sellers, total of 108M sales

PS: 34 million sellers, total of 111M sales


GC: 26 million sellers, total of 64.5M

Ps2: 29 million sellers, total of 81.5M sales


Wii: 14 million sellers, total of 82.6M

Ps3: 5 million sellers, total of 10.3M

Handhelds:

DS: 27 million sellers, total of 146.6M sales

PsP: 3 million sellers, 4.5M sales


So, Wii has almost passed Ps2 in 1st party software sales, only 2 years into the generation.

Almost, because Sony made around 40 titles on Ps2 that sold less than 1M, and they totalled around 10M, so it is still higher.

Wii has almost passed GC, even if you exclude Wii Sports.

I'll do handhelds too, as that has been requested.

PsP

America 2008, yearly chart made after data from week ending 14th June is in.

Total software sales on PsP: 6750K.

Total software from games published by Sony, released on PsP: 1815K

Total software sales from games that were not published by Sony, released on PsP: 4935K

Percentage of sales on Nintendo Wii made by Sony: 26.8%

Percentage of sales on Nintendo Wii not made by Sony: 73.2%

Japan 2008, yearly chart, data up to 14th june

Total software sales on PsP: 4461K.

Total software from games published by Sony, released on PsP: 355K

Total software sales from games that were not published by Sony, released on PsP: 4106K

Percentage of sales on PsP made by Sony: 7.9%

Percentage of sales on PsP not made by Sony: 92.1%

Others 2008, weekly chars, data up to 14th June

Total software sales on PsP: 1666K

Total software from games published by Sony, released on PsP: 427K

Total software sales from games that were not published by Sony, released on PsP: 1239K

Percentage of sales on PsP made by Sony: 25,6%

Percentage of sales on PsPnot made by Sony: 74.4%

Worldwide, weekly and yearly, data up to 14th June.

Total software sales on PsP: 12.9M.

Total software from games published by Sony, released on PsP: 2.6M

Total software sales from games that were not published by Sony, released on PsP: 10.3M

Percentage of sales on PsP made by Sony: 20.9%

Percentage of sales on PsP  not made by Sony: 79.1%

Nintendo DS will come soon.