The logic is flawless, folks. Thus, the winner of this generation is indisputable to any investor.

I know right?  Im guessing thats why Nintnedo wants to capitalize on Apple success with their own tablet.

Train Wreck is absolutely right.

At Microsoft, they don't even look at their divisions numbers. Nobody at the Microsoft Entertainment Division has any responsibilty, because they can just point to the company's numbers. In fact, that's why Microsoft is such a profitable company, nobody knows and cares how the money is earned, they all just look at the fiscal year's numbers and call it a day.

And yes, Xbox was a much more succesful product than even the PS2, GameCube and Gameboy Advance combined. Just take a look at Microsoft's revenue numbers from those years.

You heard it here first, folks. The PlayStation 2 didn't win the sixth generation. It was Microsoft.

I cant invest in Microsoft gaming division, I have to use the entire company as a proxy. So im going to make the comparsions accordingly.  

According to your logic this would mean that Apple won this generation? Since they're the most valued company in the world... I see...

All hail Apple, our new (gaming) overlords!

Even on paper today's graphics cards wipe the floor the the PS3 and XBox's Graphics chip.

For the sake of it... I'll omit the memory bandwidth numbers because in a console they can pair it up with whatever expensive yet stupidly fast memory they want anyway.

PS3:
24 Pixel Shaders, 8 Vertex Shaders, 24 Texture mapping units, 8 Render output pipelines, 550mhz core clock.

Xbox 360: 48 Unified shaders. (Both Pixel and Vertex use the same pipelines.), 16 Texture mapping units, 8 Render output pipelines, 500mhz core clock.

$100 PC graphics card (Radeon 6750):
720 Stream processors. (VLIW5, comparitively would be 144 SP's.), 36 Texture mapping units, 16 rops, 700mhz core clock.

If you go with the Wii U's rumoured 46xx class graphics chip:
320 Stream processors, (64 SP's.), 32 Texture mapping units, 8 Render output Pipelines, Core clock of 500mhz - 1ghz.

VLIW5 architectures that the WiiU uses is generally rather efficient and allows for more throughput per shader cluster than what the PS3 and Xbox is capable of, so even if it *did* have the same amount of shaders it would be far more efficient at pixel and vertex shading with the additional benefit of being able to do geometry shading amongst other things.
Graphics architectures like Fermi and Southern Islands is more geared towards compute, VLIW4 and to a lesser extent VLIW5 is incredibly efficient at graphics  tasks.

If the Wii U is going to be "minimum" in next gen consoles, that should mean some pretty impressive graphics.

A company's valuation is derived from their marketcap which takes their stock price and multiples it by the shares outstanding, its not based on revenue and income.  Apple is the most valuable company based on that metric, but it has nothing to do with who has made more money.

Even with apple's massive year last year, microsoft still has made more money over the past 7 years.  Try again though.

So now we're comparing Apples 1 year to Microsofts 7 yearS? Seems fair...

So now we're comparing Apples 1 year to Microsofts 7 yearS? Seems fair...