The thought hit me today when thinking back on how consoles did in sales.

EDIT: SNES(weaker) vs Gen(stronger) Winner: SNES
SNES(stronger) vs Gen(weaker) Winner: SNES

Gamecube(strong) vs PS2(weakest) vs Xbox(strongest) Winner: PS2

EDIT: PS1(stronger) vs N64(weaker) Winner: PS1
PS1(weaker) vs N64(stronger) Winner: PS1

 So for the exception of PS1 the weakest units usually won the console war, which many times graphically N64 and PS1 didn't have much difference it was usually in the storage department PS1 shined, though PS1 was capable of more it turned out games of same graphica capability most of the time. 

 The thought is that the argument about graphics is pointless, and 2 out of 3 times the weakest units won, and the time the stronger unit won, it was turning out similar graphical games, to argue who is going to win this console war would be to let go of fanboyism and system specs and look at it from the eyes of the media and consumers, what is getting the good reputation and what is getting the bad, and in what region as region size determines sales.

Xbox 360 has bad rep in Japan (smallest market), fair in Europe(the medium market, and the considdered the other system to have with your Wii in America by many (the largest game market). The Media played a big role in Halo 3 sales and the spike of 360 sales of that time so 360 has the media and good rep in most peoples eyes.

Wii has the rep and the media in all three regions it's hard to argue that point, it's plastered everywhere.

PS3 has popularity similar to 360 in Japan (remember smaller), better in Europe (medium) but winning by 10 to 20k a week is not going to fill the gap WW, and has poor rep in America but is selling to the Sony fans, so the question is can that hold out till PS3 can get better rep in America.

Just from the standpoint right now I gotta say it's going to be a draw for PS3 and 360 unless Sony can change the way people look at their console in Americ, they have to get over that hurtle before they can take the fight to the Wii, even then a big gap when you think things like Brawl, Mario Kart, Wii Fit, etc are on the horizon and won't do anything but draw people in.

Just a logical standpointof the consoles and their life right now, what do ya'll think about it?

okay and since when was the n64 stronger than the ps1? =D

i agree with what you say, you make some good points

SNES was stronger than Genesis.
N64 was stronger than the PS1.

Whichever console came into the market last is usually the stronger product. Exception obviously wii vs 360.

The winner is decided by games that attract people. NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, and now Wii are the winners because within their first few months they gained the mass consumer's appeal. This gave them a quick rise in userbase to pass their competition and that gave them ultimate 3rd party attention, thus more games, thus more customers.

The SNES was not weaker than the Genesis ... I don't want to get into an argument from 1992 but the Genesis had a more powerful CPU but the SNES' GPU could produce better graphics in a variety of graphical modes and the SNES had the ability to increase its processing power through cartridge based add-on chips (like the Super-FX chip)

The SNES was (dramatically) less powerful than the Neo-Geo ...

Edit: As for the Playstation vs the N64 ...

Playstation:

N64:

SNES is the stronger one
N64 is the stronger one too

The PS1 was indisputably weaker then the N64, and probably weaker than the Saturn.
The SNES is the only console with technical superiority to ever win. It was better than the Genesis in all areas except processor speed.
Other than that, I agree with your point. Good specs do not guarantee sales.

The PS1 was weaker...but it did have the storage space of CDs + audio CD playback going for it...the audio and FMV storage was something better than the N64.

o_O it's funny everything I've seen said otherwise, which was the reason for Sega purposely wanting a fast game like Sonic to show off what their system can do compared to SNES, and I've heard that from many people, and as far as the FX chip you can take into account basic 3D games on the Sega CD. As far as the N64 argument that's also the first I heard that one, but either way that just proves my point even more that system power has nothing to do with the console that wins, so strike 2 out of 3 and the beginning and add in 3 out of 3, post fixed.

 Thank you good sir for clearing that up for me, though it was a mistake on my part the claim I made stands, the first part was just the thoughts that lead up to the argument that followed, therefore has nothing to with my real argument.