500 million console Sony !

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

Sure, if we change goalposts three times and cherry pick the data we want to look at it favors Sony.

Seriously guys, is it really that hard to just look at data and analyze it objectively?

First it was Playstation is closing the gap against Nintendo.

Once that was disproven the argument changed to excluding handhelds for no apparent reason along with comparing average sales per system.

You don't have to cherry pick much to see Sony has beaten both Nintendo and Microsoft like a red headed stepchild for the better part of 2 straight decades when it comes to traditional home consoles. There's just no way to spin that otherwise. 

Mixing/matching home consoles and portable devices to me has always been kinda of iffy way to go about looking at anything market wise. Different markets with different price points. 

But if you insist on that, I think it's fair to point out Sony did not have any portable system from 1994-2004, ... if they did who knows you'd likely have to add another 80-100 million to their total as Sony was doing just fine selling portables with the PSP prior to the smart device boom. 

Also this generation is still going for Sony, they likely have another 50 million PS4s to sell. If you add up the respective numbers by hardware generation and prorate the 3DS and PS4 totals. 

Game Boy Color (49.57m approx) + Game Boy Advance (81.51m) + DS (154m) + 3DS (prorate to 70m) + N64 (33m) + GameCube (22m) + Wii (100m) + Wii U (14m) = 524 million hardware units. 

PS1 (102m) + PS2 (155m) + PS3 (85m) + PS4 (prorate to 100m) + PSP (80m) + Vita (15m) = 537 million hardware units. 

To be hoenst too I think PS4 could end up well above 100 mill too, I'm using a pretty low number there. 

Dude your first sentence is cherry picking, the discussion was never about "traditional home consoles" until you changed goalposts and made it about them. That is the definition of cherry picking.