Is the Xbox Brand Simply Weaker Than the Playstation Brand?

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Mr Puggsly said:

No home console sold over a 100 million because the market was still growing at that point.

In the 4th gen about 100 million consoles were sold. In the 5th gen about 140 million consoles were sold. In the 6th gen almost 200 million consoles were sold. In the 7th gen over 260 million consoles were sold (a low point for Playstation). Do you understand what I'm saying?

PS1 came when the market was ALREADY growing fast, that's a big reason it was able to sell 100 million. Many Gameboy owners also bought a PS1. PS1 wouldn't have done so if it came during the 16 bit era. Hence, PS1 was able to sell a 100 million because the market was big enough for it to do so at the time.

Why didn't PS3 sell 100 million units? Because the competition had great support, people were willing to play those same games on some non-Sony console.

That really makes no sense to me. Didn't PS1 also have competition in the market? Didn't Nintendo have a console then? Why would all of a sudden people who grew up on a Nintendo brand decide to give preference to an upstart Sony console instead to a proven Nintendo brand? One would guess that an existing and proven brand will be the first one to take advantage of a growing market.

Certainly Sony had to do many things right to attract all those Nintendo fans. You have to consider that the gaming market didn't grow of itself, but that Sony managed to put in an effort to expand the market outside existing userbase.