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Soundwave on 05 April 2017
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zorg1000 said:
Robert_Downey_Jr. said:

From that precise point yes, but Sony ended up selling more from the late 90s on at least I believe or at least since 2013

Well you can switch the precise point to 2000 or 2005 or 2008 or 2011 and it still remains in Nintendo's favor. Its only been since 2014 that Sony has started outselling Nintendo on a yearly basis.

So yes, if we are only looking at the last 3 years rather than the last 8 or 12 or 15 or 20 than the gap has been closing.

513 million is what I get when I add up Nintendo hardware ... Game Boy Color (49m) + GBA (81m) + DS (154m) + 3DS (60m) + N64 (33m) + GCN (22m) + Wii (100m) + Wii U (14m) - 8 different systems. 

PS1 (102m) + PS2 (157m) + PS3 (86m) + PS4 (55m) + PSP (81m) + Vita (15m) = approximately 500 million from 6 different systems. 

There's not much of a gap here at all, if Sony had a portable system from 1996-2004, they'd likely be in the lead. 

Also how was Sony not outselling Nintendo during the PS1 + PS2 era ... PS1 + PS2 = 200 million (we'll cut off even the last 50m from the PS2). GBC + GBA + N64 + GCN is below that.