PS3 made the greatest comeback ever.

[J_Allard]

thismeintiel said:

TheLastStarFighter said:
No one has debunked anything, and people keep putting up wrong numbers:

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2009/03/20/genesis-vs-snes-by-the-numbers

Genesis was selling at a greater pace than SNES in the US in the early years. Catchy adverstising and campaigns suggesting SNES was slower than Genesis had some mocking the Nintendo cosole. Then with great third party support and the launch of Donkey Kong Country SNES surged ahead and didn't look back.

I consider a 3rd to 1st comeback to be significantly bigger than a 3rd to 3rd or maybe 2nd comeback. SNES went from being mocked to dominance. PS3 went from being mocked to respectable.

SNES was only mocked by die hard Genesis fans, not the majority of the gaming public/journalists.  So again, not exactly the same situation.

@ BHR-3

While VGC has the gap down to 1M, I'm sure the real gap is either much slimmer or has disappeared completely by now.  We'll have to wait til financials are out to know for sure, though.  And as Max said, those last two have NOTHING to do with a comeback.  I do think it's quite impressive that the PS3 went from selling quite poorly to become the top selling home console for the last 2 years, with this year making it 3.

Some of you guys are going way overboard with how much negativity the PS3 faced. You guys act as if it was well on its way to being the next Virtual Boy but then made a complete 180. "majority of the gaming public" mocked PS3? How could anyone even possibly prove that? Was it mocked by a lot of Internet nerds like us? Yes, deservedly so. But so was the Wii, the 360, the Nextbox, etc etc. I mean.. according to this website we're on, the PS3 outsold the 360 in 2007. Its first year on the market. And has done so a majority of the years since, except maybe 1 or 2 years.