Has any console maker came back from 3rd place to 1st or 2nd?

[johnsobas]

this depends on how you define a comeback. There have been some that have overcome other consoles that launched first, there have been a few that have changed from 2nd to 3rd place and vice versa, but even those that changed places were always very close to each other. The PS3 overcoming the 360 wouldn't be something that has never happened before, but the PS3 coming back to outsell the Wii would be something that has never even come close to happening before.