They had that pretty massive deal for Resident Evil in 2001, but as time has gone on they've become more reluctant to engage. 

And in a way I sort of see their point, do you want to get into a pissing match with a company 20x the size of yours? Maybe you'll win one or two rounds but eventually they'll simply outspend you. I think Nintendo realized that when MS basically offered them $25 billion to buy them like it was nothing to them. 

Even on MS' side ... really after almost 15 years in the business they basically have made no real headway into Europe or Japan, and in the US even they're being beaten again fairly soundly by Sony. Honestly if the PS3 didn't make the mistake of being $600 at launch, it probably would've routed the 360 too. 

Why not say "this Millennium"?
If you're planning on reaching then you might as well go all the way.

Because that's not about to happen tho.

I know. I just think it's kind of unfair to MS to give them such a big crutch.

shush.....   NES and SNES will make this arbitrary comparison useless!



no seriously I fail to see the point here.

If the thread would have been made in 2005 the Xbox would have sold more than the gamecube. So Microsoft wins. If this would have been made in 2012 Wii would have won agaisnt 360.

Microsoft to overtake Nintendo in Home Console Sales for this week

I'll check back in 2099 to see if this thread statement ended up being true. 

Oh we all know your future Nintendo console forecasts Source

I still have them in an excel file somewhere.

Then this thread it about home console shipments, not sales.

O.P. Yay? "Xbox will catch up to Nintendo in home console sales (shipments?) eventually if you leave out two of nintendos consoles!"

Even then, only if Nintendos next console does poorly and MS does well.

No, will happen with XB1, and then some.

And really, shipments become sales, all the old consoles shipments have been sold as will all the XB1 and WiiU's in the OP will be.