Nintendo's comeback with the Wii was the greatest. They went from selling 20 million units and last place, and an image issue with Nintendo eing seen as for kids only, to 100 million and first place by far, and Nintendo made more profit that generation than all other videogame companies combined. This was a gain of 500% generation over generation in hardware numbers.

SNES also started off slow, and the Megadrive had taken over as the dominant platform holding 70% of the sales in 91 through 93. Then after Donkey Kong Country debuted rendered 24-bit graphics in 94, SNES came up from behind and surpassed everything on the market every week for over 2 and a half years, including Sony and Sega's new 32-bit consoles. SNES ended up surpassing Megadrive by a wide margin and taking first place for the generation.

PS3's comeback is not nearly as impressive in comparison. PS3 was a sharp decline from PS2's insurmountable lead down to last place. In addition, over the course of 6 and a half years, PS3 only managed to catch up a little, while ultimately remaining in last place.

I think it proves that you might be in the minority of messgageboard posters who won't care if the PS3 passes the Wii. I think it's more a case of you not wanting it to happen than one of you not caring.

Doesn't matter what you consider. The total numbers are what dictates who the winner is and the Wii will not finish first.

I wasn't around when the PS consoles were dominating everything. But, as I said, what matters is who ends up first. Not my problem if you don't like the thought of a Nintendo system not being first.

Yes! Always stick to the majority, man. That's the most successful way of living.... *sigh* But I can live with the fact that I don't belong to the mighty and trustworthy majority of elite messageboard posters stating their opinion ;) Obviously this is something important to you.

I would say about as important as it is to you. But funny how you're talking about the majority now while you're the one who said that nobody cares about "last gen".

In our talk you are the only one who says otherwise. I won't dig out the threads that have been here before you entered the side but I am not alone but even if this wouldn't disturb me. That's the nice thing about opinions, they can hardly be argued. 

No it wasn't/isn't

Well, ignoring the facts is one way to look at something...

Sony managed an impressive turnaround with PS3, but it pales in comparison to the renaissance Nintendo achieved with Wii.

Honestly, the two scenarios aren't really close. PS3 endured a rocky launch and then improved greatly, but Nintendo moved from last place to first place with one of the most revolutionary, disruptive, financially successful consoles of all time.

Even if we're talking about a single console generation, Sony hasn't "won" anything. It's still sitting in third place. I'm not saying it deserves to be in third -- it doesn't -- but it IS there. If a basketball team had a 13-0 run to end the game, but still lost 78-75, it wouldn't be called a comeback, would it?

Really the only way to argue this is to cite software, but even that would be a losing argument. The early PS3 games might not be as impressive as the later ones, but there were some gems: Resistance, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, etc.