Will the XBOX One outsell the SNES?

[thetonestarr]

Barkley said:

thetonestarr said:
Additionally, there's also the question of whether the SNES Classic should count towards SNES numbers. On one hand, it's very different hardware, but on the other hand, it is very specifically SNES games and nothing outside of SNES that is driving those sales. If it WERE counted, that would push SNES numbers up to around 55m and I would say it's definitively certain Xbone won't outsell that.

It's not a question. It's dumb to retroactively add numbers to discontinued systems when a classic/flashback is released years later. Otherwise we could say the Sega Genesis outsold the N64 due to all those Sega Megadrive/Genesis tv consoles, that's just changing history.

It comes down to whether those were official console releases or not. Why wouldn't you count an official console released by Nintendo with the SNES moniker, that is designed strictly to play only existing SNES games? Companies bring discontinued products back all the time, and companies make revisions to products for re-releases all the time. Why should this be considered any differently?