That's nice, but you're still not refuting the 2009 number I posted from the NYT.
And it still goes back to the fact that, although NYT cites the Tokyo Game Show, these were all games clearly still in development and many launching this year. I don't know what number the NYT are citing when it comes to hardware sales, as Nintendo and Sony are clearly both Japanese hardware manufacturers and their numbers combined more than double what Microsoft has with the Xbox 360. It says that the best selling game of
All you're doing is reinforcing my statement of Nintendo (and Capcom) being one of the few JPN devs with global appeal. So...thanks!
Also, I'm going to need some citation on that 800M Wii software > PS360's software sales combined figure there.
That was never a secret here and I never disputed it. I clearly said that Nintendo and Capcom's dominance in the video game publishing space has always been the case with other publishers falling in line behind them. This is why I compared them to EA and Activision, because their sales numbers line up and are actually for the most part a lot smaller than Nintendo's. While other publishers on either end struggle to find as big of success, these two on both sides of the pond are doing fine. There are a good share of standout titles from both sides this generation, but none on the same scale. However, on the handheld front, the publishers have been experiencing a bounce back in profit and are finding a lot of success there. We established that a long time ago, and my last post wasn't a confirmation.
For the sales figures, I used the fiscal year charts from the different hardware manufacturers. However, I will retract those because it was based back in the fiscal years ending in 2010 and I scaled up to match today's possible numbers, but I realize since I posted that it would be inaccurate by any stretch. At that time, however, total PS3 software sales were 315.3 million, Microsoft sold 353.8 million, and the Wii sold 716.09 million. However, as of this moment according to trending charts on ********, the Wii still has about 100 million unit lead over the competition. I won't factor in the Nintendo DS, but if we did it would be 839.48 million. Considering most of Nintendo's games that are chart toppers on the Wii and DS are developed by them (no surprise there), that's still highly respectable.
I have consistently focued on consoles, not handhelds, in this discussion. I don't know why you keep bringing handhelds up. :lol
You never said we can only focus on consoles. You said the gaming industry hasn't been impacted by Japanese developers and publishers as it did last generation, and I was proving the point that they are, but on the handheld front. And if they are selling tens of millions of software units there, doesn't that mean there's still an impact and global appeal, but more on that side of things, especially considering you have over 150 million DSs sold and more than 75 million PSPs sold? That certainly meets and may even exceed that of console sales.
And for that NYT article about the impact, when it says about the estimates, it's talking about the number of games sold only in Japan and the size of its market, not about how many games its publishers are selling in the world. That's why it keeps bringing up the "domestic game market" in the piece. That even Keiji Inafune's games flop over here is testament to something much larger than global sales numbers regardless, and more about how insanely ambiguous our tastes really are. There's a lot of culture clash between us and them that prevents a lot of the variety as there used to be. And once again, the skyrocketing production and publishing costs are making Japanese publishers focus more on the handheld space. If you want to play great Japanese games, you have to buy a Wii or a handheld device. I think if all you do is look at opinion pieces and not at the games people tend to getting a lot of enjoyment out of, of course you'd have this misconstrued look at the Japanese gaming industry. However, look closer, and you still see a lot of excitement over games from that side of the pond, including Metal Gear Solid, Pokemon, Gran Turismo, the Tales series, etc. 2012 looks to be a big year for Japanese publishers and there's plenty to be excited about.