Which system made the biggest comeback? PlayStation 4 or Nintendo Switch?

[zorg1000]

JackHandy said:

zorg1000 said:

Switch is also the successor to 3DS so that needs to be factored in. On top of that, I don’t think it’s as simple as just looking at hardware sales.

PS3 lost Sony billions of dollars and the company as a whole was on shaky grounds at the time, I remember their credit rating getting downgraded to junk and them selling off a bunch of assets in the early 2010s.

Nintendo may still have the bigger comeback but I think it’s more complex than your post implies.

Well, if you want to ignore the sales gap (although, I have no idea why you would), there is still the issue of gamer perception. By the time the PS3 Slim launched, PS3 and the Sony brand was starting to make a come back. Kevin Butler, the IPs that were coming out, coupled with the relative failure of Kinect and Microsoft's sudden decision to try to lure the Wii crowd away... it really swung Playstation around and put them back in a positive light for gamers, and the sales reflected it. 

Compare that to Wii-U, which was a laughing stock and viewed as a failure (do not hate me; I loved my Wii-U then, and I love it now). It was such a failure, in fact, that many were worried Nintendo might completely go under, and in a way, they did. Switch is a handheld which can be docked, not a home console that can be taken on the go, which means Nintendo silently abandoned the dedicated home-console market. So when you consider this, the Switch's success is unbelievable. Literally. No one except the completely deluded among us expected Nintendo to rise back up NES-style and do what they did. 

When PS4 launched, people had already predicted its success. Not so with Switch. So I'm still going with that. It brought Nintendo back from the brink. 

I didn’t say ignore hardware numbers, I said it’s not the only factor to consider and your post is still completely ignoring 3DS.

I agree that Nintendo had the bigger comeback, I just think you are looking at the comparison too narrowly.