Microsoft to overtake Nintendo in Home Console Sales this Century

[Alby_da_Wolf]

D2K said:

Seece said:

 

In case you failed to read the OP, we're talking about what is shipped 2000 onwards. I've already stated that the majority of those N64 were shipped before that year.

And where did I say MS is catching up to Nintendo home consoles total? The thread title lays things out perfectly clear. MS Vs Nintendo since 2000.

In case YOU failed to read I stated that it is foolish to compare that totality of the XBOX home console sales to just 4 Nintendo home consoles.  Where did you say that MS is catching up to Nintendo?

Microsoft to overtake Nintendo in Home Console Sales this Century

Now if MS is to 'overtake' Nintendo in Home Console Sales this century AS YOU SAY, it certainly isn't LOSING any ground.  Not sure how you handle arithmetic but for me it's a pretty transparent concept.  Red herrings don't change that fact.  The point is that you post had no point and numerous others in this thread have pointed out.  MS isn't coming anywhere close to overtaking Nintendo in home consoles and of course Sony is dominating both companies.  Those are the facts.  Sorry to break it to you. 

We are done here.

Hey, if only, this is the reason why the comparison is interesting: we know that counting sales since the beginning Ninty overwhelmes MS, but it's not a thing that will take discussion so far and comparing them also during the period when MS was'n in the console market at all makes little sense beyond the big fact that Ninty saw this market's potential 18 years before, really a big fact, but once you stated it there isn't much to discuss until we just reach the point when MS entered the market initially not even to diversify or seek profit, but only to stop a supposed, but actually inexistent, "Sony threat for MS", and when we discuss this we're in fact towards the end of the XX century if we talk about XBox project, and already in the XXI century if we talk about actual sales. Comparing them since 2000 is quite fair, it even concedes Ninty the advantage of its 5th gen console last few million sales. From then on you can see accelerations and slowdowns on both sides, making the outcome a lot less sure, and the discussion more lively and interesting.