That should settle it.

That's the most idiotic thing i've read today....Sony made a ton more profit off the ps2 than Nintendo did with the gamecube...I get that your trying to be clever, but please, do research before making yourself look stupid.

I disagree, they barely made real profit off the PS3, it's still at last place for installment, and it will never be at PS2 level success. If anything, the PS brand has fallen hard. Come back would be it being at first place in install base, making a ton of profits, and reaching PS2 level sales by now.

I think nobody disagrees with the point that the Wii Comeback was an impressive achievment but it happened over 2 generations not in the same gen. PS3 managed to destroy everything PS2 has built and is now back on track of recovery. This is if you look just on one gen pretty impressive. Normally Consoles fail from start to end. If you do bad in the first years you do bad the whole gen.

SNES was never a failure it just took awhile in the US to catch up to Segas 2 year headstart. And it steadily gained marketshare in the US. The situation has parallels but its not equal to PS3s failure.

The 3DS is  the only other console that squandered the gains from its predecessor and managed to do decent afterwards. Thats why everybody screams  Wii U doom. Recovery is usually not a thing. And 3DS/PS3 are unique in that they were the reason for decline and managed to pick somewhat up again. SNES is a similar success story if you disregard that it was the NES staying too long on the market which made the SNES play catch up for the first years. It wasn't really the console that did bad. Just the Sega US marketing was pretty effective in planting the idea of Segas superiority in the heads of american teens . Sega lost steadily ground to the SNES everywhere. Sure they sold more at first but the more was getting constantly smaller. 

I wouldnt call PS3 a comeback to past strength but its an impressive turnaround and if PS4 does great from the start I would say that would be a comeback.

In the end its all semantics... there is no right answer anyway.

It improved a WHOLE lot.

I wouldn't call it a comeback though until it passes the 360 World Wide.

If a sports team starts doing well in the second half after doing awful in the first half but still lose you don't say they had a comeback... you say they "Almost had a comeback."

Did the SNES start selling awful though?

I mean... as i seemed to remember, the Genesis had such a huge lead because the NES was still doing amazing so it took a while for it to even need to be released.

Yes, but it is different if one football team keeps on playing while the other team already went to another opponent and is playing against the others. But let me ask you one question: if PS3 fails, god forbid, to gain number 1 in sales in 20xx, will PS3 automatically have lost this gen?

This thread is ridiculous. A comeback for a company compared to a console? That's apples to oranges. Make a thread saying Nintendo made the best comeback if you want and I'm sure most would agree with you that are disagreeing with you here.

I'm not back peddling. I haven't made any claims to back peddle on. And I won't quote you when I'm on my phone.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo made more profit than Sony during GC era. Profits are important for a company but while talking about performance of an item it's irrelevant. Example I used earlier in the thread are sports teams that do great but can barely sell 5k tickets a game (Pheonix Coyotes and Chicago White Sox). You don't see people thinking the Cubs are a great team because they sell out every game.


Kasz - people do refer to being down and out and making a game out of it later a come back as I've posted evidence earlier.

Not exactly a comeback if you don't come in first place. The PS3 will finish second, which is a great (yet expensive) accomplishment though.

Calm down.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=136006&page=1

Not sure how accurate this is, though you'll probably refute it regardless.