Some observations of market leading consoles

[WilliamWatts]

HappySqurriel said:

WilliamWatts said:

Maybe it would be more useful talking about what makes a successful console in general, not just that which makes them a market leader.

I thought about taking that approach, but outside of market leading consoles it is very difficult to determine which systems should be considered successes or failures. So few trailing consoles have turned a profit and grown their user-base (or market-share) that the results of a trailing console seem to be fairly mixed.

It seems that in a nutshell none of the leading systems in terms of technology have really been at all that remarkable relative to the rest of the major consoles at the time. Nor have they really stood significantly apart from the other consoles. I suspect the major reason for console success is because a console is already successful due to the catch 22 of needing both developer support and consumer support.