April NPD or Everyone Drinks except Nintendo

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Originally Posted by Jonbo298

MS and Sony made games aren't held up to the same standard Nintendo games are in the general populace

Overall, no... Which is why I said "the occasional", in reference to MS and Sony...
I don't know of any specific examples in MS's case (since I'm an Xbox n00b), but I believe Team Ico (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus) is a first party developer for Sony... God of War and Gran Turismo are first party titles...
And yeah, that may be 4 games/franchises established over 2+ console generations... But... Hey... "occasional"

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

but there isn't a defacto company to compare to for the most part. Yeah, I'm having a hard time explaining it. Oh well.

Maybe it's just because you're having a hard time explaining exactly what you mean, or maybe it's just a difference of opinion, but I don't see why the lack of having a single company to compare quality to is an issue when there still exists an overall tier of high-quality titles from a collection of high-quality developers...