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ofrm1 on 06 July 2015
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RolStoppable said:
Burek said:

XBox was their first console, meaning they had no experience, no franchises, no fanbase and no previous goodwill to fall back on.

At the same time, Nintendo was a household name, with many great gaming franchises in tow, with 3 previous successful consoles and two portables as well. Yet they sold worse than the newcomer.

I think sales of those two consoles cannot even be compared at the same level, and taking into consideration Nintendo's presence until then, GC was certainly a "disaster",

Nintendo won with their first console. Sony won with their first console. Microsoft blew $4 billion with their first console.

Come on, if you are Microsoft and don't count yourself out after such a performance (basically the biggest disaster in video game history), then you shouldn't be so arrogant that you count out Nintendo.

Nintendo released their console during the aftermath of a video game market crash and succeeded entirely because they held an illegal monopoly on 3rd party developers. Sony released their console after Sega imploded with the Sega CD, 32x, and Saturn, while Nintendo released a clearly inferior product. Microsoft released their console two years after the launch of what is now the best selling home console of all time and three days after Nintendo's launch; not to mention Nintendo already had cemented a solid fanbase. Ignoring context is not wise here.