Microsoft might get away with weak hardware and still sell well because of other stuff and that makes me sad...

[Pillow]

Good marketing and/or new features is only what matters for a console to be a success or not.
Whether you have the best hardware, or best looking games doesn't matter, except for the core audience (which is small). Gaming forums does not represent the 250M+ audience WW.
The only way the X1 can be successful sales wise(same goes for the Wii U and PS4) is if they can market their product as being something new with exclusive features that can turn ''viral'' and make people impulse buy the product, it's that simple.

PS2 sold well because it was able to play games and DVDs and was pretty cheap, and well marketed.
Wii Sold well because it was able to distinguish itself from the competition by being something completely new as well as being affordable and marketed as being so.
iPhone sells really well every year, because of the marketing, not because it's the most powerful phone, sure it's not a gaming console, but if Apple didn't put ads everywhere, it wouldn't sell like it does.

So please stop with all that pixel count arguments and try to think instead.