With the PS brand it was inevitable they had the most powerful last gen and ended up coming close to winning, and would have if they hadn't alienated over 20 million PS2 owners who switched to xbox. So once Wii U failed to bottle lightning a second time all Sony needed to do was make a marginally more powerful console than Xbox and release it at a comparable price and the world was theirs. If MS hadn't made all those mistakes xb one would still be behind PS4 by a substantial amount, just not by as much as it is now.
I don't think Nintendo ever had a chance to repeat Wii's performance, because the vast majority of Wii buyers were never going to buy another console.
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