Meh, disolitude is just making a subjective value judgement on what he perceives as quality. There's no sense arguing with that.

There's also no sense arguing sales. MS and Sony aren't even in the same league. Here's publisher totals for '08 in the Americas:

Let's put some perspective on that... this is 2008 for Japan...

Publisher Totals:

I wish we could do this with Others. I'm sure Sony could nudge up a spot or two. Maybe with VGC 2.0?

Oh in others, Sony totally makes up the difference for Japan w/ ~12 times Nintendo's other sales.

/sarcasm

On topic: I don't really understand this discussion and never have (even when it was the Gamecube years) Nintendo has such a solid history of profit.

Isn't Jak and Daxter and Ratchet and Clank PS only? Well, I think Ratchet and Clank are more well known than Jak and Daxter but Mario and gang have been around for decades. It will take a lot of time for known characters to move up in popularity. Casual gamers know mario but if you want a character to be a household name, you are going to have to make games with it that appeal to both children, teens and adults. Mario games have that universal appeal.  People grew up with Mario and his gang.  Kids, adults, and teens can all have fun playing Galaxy.  I mean, who grows up with the GTA series?

Oh, wait, I know,  Crash Bandicoot.  I believe may be one of the most well known characters.

That was a fun read.

Nice read,and btw Ninty got many memorable mascots at the beginning of this gen doesn't mean they cheat.It call 'reputation' that Nintendo gather from many years of successful and well-manage their brand.

Sony got many years of success from PS1&2 too ,but they can't keep successful in their mascots as same as Nintendo did.If Sony got strong 1st party games and don't rely too much on 3rd parties.(Plus with some more creative and understand what consumer want.)The position in this gen will be much different.

MS ,i don't know enough to said so i'll skip this one.

^ I think Sony are now regretting the lack of a bundled game with both their PS consoles. That might have helped generate the same kind of brand loyalty but its too late.

For Sony their in-house game were never designed for moving the sales of the console, it is in the current generation where they are losing exclusive third partie titles that Sony is being forced to put more effort in first partie studios.

Nintendo games are designed around the console with the objective of moving more consoles, for Nintendo Animal Crossing: City Folk and Wii Music are failures because they don´t move consoles, the same games from Sony would have been huge successes cos they would sold milions of copies.

Different philosophies

Nintendo made more money during the GameCube years than Sony did during the PS2 years.

Then Nintendo made the Wii and DS, while Sony lost every single PS2 dollar they made.

Nintendo will never be doomed.