Their mission was not to outsell a Sony console, their mission was to stop a Sony console having home media dominance. They were afraid the PC would become obsolete, which is stupid, because PCs will never become obsolete. Not till the day when my console can use Firefox, Microsoft Office and various other programs, while not requiring installs of any kind.
Which will never happen.
So, I suppose they succeeded in their rather odd mission, but they did well for themselves. They improved on the less-than-great Xbox, and made the 360, better in pretty much every way except hardware reliability, which is now a lot better than when the 360 launched. They got third party support, plenty of sales, and a strong exclusive lineup. That's something to be proud of.
But, in the end, the best case scenario for the 360 is second place. Is that something to be proud of? Sure, they're not last, but they're not first either.
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