MS Botched the Xbox hard because they also failed to "understand the market direction" and thought it was going always-online, TV/Streaming with a poor name that failed to communicate that it was a successor. - So it's the same as the WiiU in that regard.
As for the PS3, we need to keep context here...
Sony was on top with the PS2, so that arrogance flowed into the Playstation 3's design and release, hence statements like... "Our goal for PlayStation 3 is for consumers to think to themselves, 'I will work more hours to buy one".
The high price, inefficient and difficult hardware.. And most multiplats being inferior to the competition really put a dampener on Sony at the start of that Gen.
The difference of it all is, Microsoft has never been on top in the console space... But we still ended up with the launch Xbox One... I could only imagine what they would have been like if they had 80% of the market locked up like Sony did.
In saying that... And I have been saying it for years... I want all three console manufacturers to have absolutely identical marketshare for competitive reasons... It benefits us, the consumer most of all with more innovation, more investment, lower prices.
The 7th gen was one such generation... Sony did a massive turnaround on the PS3 and made it a worthy console, the Wii was great fun, the Xbox 360 had some real banging games.
End result was Xbox: 84 million, PS3: 87.4 million, Wii: 101.63 million... And regardless of what console you got, you were going to have a blast.
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