mountaindewslave on 23 August 2017
they have been fairly close for the last number of gens between Nintendo and Sony if you tally home+handheld consoles together (Nintendo good with 3DS and bad with Wii U, Sony good with PS4 bad with PSVita), landslide for Nintendo with DS + Wii versus PS3 + PSP, landslide for Sony during PS2 era
long story short- Nintendo and Sony do have an actual war in term of dedicated video gaming devices
Microsoft however.... they've never been #1
