Sony the Undisputable Winner in Home Console sales?

[seiya19]

Aerys said:

seiya19 said:

prayformojo said:

softcoregamer82 said:
No, they won two generations and Nintendo won three as it stands today. You can't ignore consoles before Sony, unless you're a fan boy. But they have sold more home consoles overall, which is impressive given that Nintendo was around longer.

Nintendo may have won three gens, but the SNES didn't pull ahead of the Genesis until 1994 when Sega was shifting towards their next system.

And that is easily explained by the fact that the Sega Genesis was released 2 years earlier than the SNES...

It's completely different from a hypothetical scenario of PS3 outselling Wii.

Not so different in fact

As different as it can be. Genesis had a 2 year head-start over SNES, and despite of that, SNES outsold it (by at least 9 million lifetime), before the Saturn was out there (end of 1994, same as PS1, a year and a half before N64). On the other hand, PS3 and Wii were released at the same time (360 a year before), WiiU is already one year old, and now PS4/Xbox One are already out.

If PS3 outsells Wii in a few years, it would be well into the 8th gen, with a discontinued Wii and the entire industry focused on the new platforms for years now, including Sony and Nintendo themselves. A rather hollow "victory", if you can even call it that.