Will the Nintendo doomsaying ever end?

[Something Amyss]

You don't need to include ports for that AC number, the amount of spin-off AC games there are is astounding.

You do to get that number according to Wikipedia. You even then go on to remove a few titles to get a slightly smaller number, so I'm pretty sure you're even aware of this.

Meanwhile, as long as you couch Nintendo's side with a bunch of qualifiers, you're never going to have an honest comparison.

 

[st0pnsw0p]

Putting Megaman in there doesn't make much sense, the last proper megaman game was donkey's ago and it's practically (or is literally) dead and has been for a long time, the last thing to do with megaman was japanese only re-releases of 1,2 and 3 on the DS; from 1987-1998 there were 9 Megaman titles (11 if you count the arcade titles), that's 1 every 1.22 years.

Puttting Megaman in there was just an extreme example of the flaws present in your method of counting games released to show you that those numbers can often fail to show the current reality of a franchise.

I wasn't trying to say that none of this is bad, I was trying to point out that Nintendo seemingly seems to be the only one constantly criticized for it, and they are actually not the worst offender.

You really haven't [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.837350-Ubisoft-Wont-Ship-Yearly-Assassins-Creed-If-Its-Not-Good-Enough] been paying attention [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.841712-Call-of-Duty-Switches-to-Three-Year-Development-Cycle], have you? I don't know about you, but I'm seeing plenty of criticisms of both those series' annual release schedule.

Even Super Mario, by your numbers, is averaged outside the "annual release" window.

Oh please, 8 games in 9 years is practically annual. Heck, if you count NSLU as a standalone game, which you very well could since Nintendo released it as a standalone game, that's 9 for 9. It's not literally annual since there were two years with no Mario games, but the two years with 2 Mario games make up for it.

It's not like Nintendo are pumping out crap all the time either, every first party Nintendo title in recent memory has received favourable reviews (from both critics, and consumers), and have sold well. The last 4 New Super Mario Bros games have metacritic scores of 89, 87, 78, 84 respectively. The last 4 main series CoD games (I didn't include the horribly rated iOS games or the Vita title) have metacritic scores of 78, 74, 68, 78 (these numbers fluctuate between platforms, even if I picked the most favourable metascore from each game they would not match the numbers of NSMB).

Now you're just being dishonest. Or maybe you haven't done your research and are just assuming? Take the highest scores and you get 88, 83, 78 and 83. An average score of 83 compared to NSMB's average score of 84.5. That's in the exact same ballpark.