The 360 and Xbone will always have dominant US market share. MS specifically created the 360 as an opportunity to brand to the young, malleable demographic. Opportunity.

Just as Japan loves its products, and every other country is proud of theirs.

The real question is would the 360 have been able to dominate even more if it hadn't screwed up its own launch. People seem to forget that the 360 didn't have a very good launch either...

RROD would have destroyed the Xbox 360 if it weren't for the fact that the PS3 was an overpriced POS with no games and crappy online, so no, I don't think the 360 would have been nearly as successful were it not for Sony's colossal screwup.

This gen seems to be the complete opposite, but I suppose it isn't too late for MS to turn things around.

Sure. They 360's misfortune gave room to the PS3 to recover somewhat from it's bad luck. Otherwise the PS3 could've been worse.

If PS3's launch was as succesful as the PS4's launch, the 360 would have been crushed. Bonus points for RROD, it would be a real massacre. Sony's screw up is truly legendary, Kaz probably cries until he sleeps every night remembering E3 2006.

But also, if Microsoft didn't screw up and RROD never existed... maybe the 360 would have a huge advantage over PS3 today...

Not as successful. Though Is still think it would have won the americas. Also I wonder how the ps3 would have done if the 360 didnt have the red ring issue come about.

No doubt if the PS3 had a better launch and was a better system than it is, it would have changed the outcome of the entire generations market share.

No. They were coming off the ps2's insane success. The ps3 would have dwarfed the 360.

Too hard to say. You have to remember that the 360 also suffered from massive issues like RROD. MS was also coming from a console that only sold around 25 million but also took the flag from the Dreamcast and pioneered online gaming...


All in all... I think MS would have worked their machine and the result probably would have been the same.... Just to damn hard to make a call on really.

I don't think so. The 360 would have flopped and VGchartz would have been full of 360 doom threads instead.