Soundwave on 04 January 2017
If 3DS had sold 100 million units this gen like the PS4 is going to, I would agree this gen would be successful for Nintendo no matter how poorly the Wii U did, but Nintendo is going to come up well short of 100 million 3DS'.
No doubt the evaporation of the PSP market hurts Sony, but it was also only a one generation thing.
Otherwise their console sales have remained best in class by a large margin.
Also rightly or wrongly winning the console race is generally considered "more important", because the majority of software sales occur on the console side, not the portable side. So the company that wins the console race usually has the largest influence on the industry because that's where the majority of software is sold.
