We already know that XB1 has a snowball's chance in hell of comparing to the PS4.

http://plebegaming.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/let-it-go-xb1-cant-compete-with-ps4/

The real question is "Can the XB1 hold on to second place going forward?" The Wii U had a strong showing, but it's going to go domant until September with no games. XB1 could grab a good bit of ground in these doldrums, but the Wii U has a smattering of coming titles that appeal to the Japanese, and Smash will reach a global audience. Not to mention the "looming amiibo".

The two biggest bombs MS had left were the price drop and the Master Chief Collection. The price drop fizzled out and HD remasters have never sold as well as their originals. Halo used to be King FPS, but it has since been convincingly dethroned by COD, which also has a launch window one week before the MCC if I recall correctly? Multiplats are where XB1 is suffering and the only thing it has that Sony isn't doing better is possibly the MCC.

Nintendo on the other hand isn't going for the same audience. Once again they're going for the casuals, kids, and Nintendo faithful this holiday. It looks like they're trying to claim almost exclusive control of the smart toy market by having the hardware built in. If they can make it so you don't have to pay for peripherals to enjoy the smart toys, they could entice third parties to get in on the action. If the amiibo does acceptably well, I can only imagine launching a line of smart toys without having to design and push your peripheral makes the Wii U seem more appealing launch pad for joining one of the fastest growing markets in electronic entertainment.

So can XB1 manage to outsell the Wii U going forward, or will Sony and Nintendo act as a sort of tag team to put it down to 3rd or 4th?

Honestly? 

I'm doubt.

*Looks at sales history and charts*

YES

Let's not get ahead of ourselves! Wii U is improving, but there is a lot of work still needed. Becoming arrogant over one months results will surely bite us in the butt. Just wait after Christmas- that will be telling whether the Wii U can pull some sort of comeback.

The Xbox One will undoubtedly push past the WII U and anyone not seeing that are in denial about it ...

I highly doubt the WII U is even going to pass the vita for crying out loud.

This isn't just about Nintendo being successful though, this is about Sony's efforts to completely snuff out the competition. Destiny is going to be a huge multiplat, and we know that it won't be as good on XB1. Sales of this will be telling, because if the XB1 gets trounced as badly as it did with the WD release, it's just going to inspire Sony to get more exclusive content in those releases, and third parties will have no reason not to indulge them.

Except the same reason they give Sony exclusive content, str8 cash homie.

Also, lol. Did the Wii U have an amazing June or something? Didn't it sell like 60k in May?

Lastly, I don't get the logic of the article. So it's no big deal that MS has a Halo game coming just because it doesn't outsell Call of Duty? Yet Nintendo is catering to Japanese with some games. Wow?

Destiny is already writing and the fate of the x1 is last place. Like its been said a million times before the wii u is not fighting for the same market and the ps4 is killing the x1 market. I belive the wii u will make an amazing secondary console so it will sell well next to the ps4. The x1 is loosing popularity fast with every multy while the Wii U is increasing with every exclusive.

I think it's quite certain that it will. MCC and the price cut were their biggest guns for this year, but their real big guns are Gears and Halo. The Wii U isn't doing good and it's quite easy to pass it by doing only "decently" or "regular". MS has a big advantage by counting with the 3rd party muscle like Sony. It won't be this year, but 2015 will be easy for them.

I think so. The WiiU will have alot more droughts. The XB1 still has strong third party support and seems to be getting some great exclusives as well.