Now that Microsoft owns game IPs such as Call of Duty, Overwatch, Diablo, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc., I wanted to see if it could come close to Nintendo's video game dominance.

With there being 8 CoD games on the top 50 games list, the CoD franchise has indeed propelled Microsoft forward, coming shortly behind Nintendo.

Microsoft and Nintendo combined own more than half of the games on the list, highlighting the severe monopolization of top games. Strangely, Microsoft did not own any of the games on the list at the time of their release.

One thing I should note is that the Pokémon games on the list are owned by The Pokémon Company, which Nintendo only has a 33% stake in, although I put them under Nintendo.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games

Posted by Makybox

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  4. >Microsoft did not own any of the games on the list at the time of their release

    And to me that means they shouldn’t be given the title … it feels really slimy (which of course is entirely on-brand for Microsoft). The people who made & published the game should be recognized, not someone who scooped up the developer years or decades later.

  6. Why should we even consider any of these to be Microsoft??? Credit the developer like activation, Bethesda, etc.

    Nintendo has made almost all of their games on the list personally in house so it’s way more impressive than Microsoft just buying activision-blizzard, and zenimax to own all of these well established IP’s

  7. Can you take credit for games/studios that you purchased after the fact?

    I don’t think it counts if you weren’t the company behind it at launch.

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