They are probably going to sell off the Xbox division somewhere in the future, who knows maybe Nintendo will buy it from them. That or it's going to end up as a name used for part of their other software.

They created Xbox because they thought game consoles could become the central entertainment device of the household and Sony was becoming dominant.

Over a decade later it's phones and tablets that have taken that spot, and Microsoft is clearly moving to mobile.

A lot of them switched to PS4 because it does Call of Duty, Fifa, Assassin's Creed & co. better for the same price.

I would but, I don't have all day to read long essays on the internet. The thing is are more consoles sold in the 7th generation than the 6th generation, so how do you account for that? Also how can we take you seriously when said the N64 sold 47 million when it only sold 32 million. 

The people who flocked back to Sony are apart of a market that Sony partially grew themselves and jumped ship to Microsoft during the 360 era. Look at the history and the numbers. Those were not loyalists, but rather third party fans that originally grew from the Nintendo era, jumped to Sony then Sony increased the marketsize again and MS shaved them off by being the first and only console in the first year of the 7th gen complete with an equivalent list of third party games (including third party exclusives and timed exclusives) to Sony. Sony launched a year later and had lacked some third party games due to Microsoft paying for timed excusivity and exclusivity of a lot of third party games.

Microsoft eyed key third party franchises that they knew Sony had power over third party games with during the previous gens..

1. MGS 

2. Tekken ( until last gen Tekken was exclusive to the Playstation brand)

3. Final Fantasy

4. Resident Evil

This was the first time MS ever truly posed a threat to Sony at E3. They basically cut major names from their exclusive third party franchise list.

I never said the N64 sold 47 million, Padib did. I corrected him and then provided the numbers. Check it out when you have time. Again, Microsoft did not contribute to the industry growth, they just took gamers from Sony. By my calculations it was +57.94 of the -74.7 Sony lost and the rest went to the Nintendo Wii. Its also obvious because the third party sales add up for MS, but do not for Nintendo as well. The die hard third party fanatics from the PS2 era bought 360's and contributed to Microsofts third party sales. 

that is coming from the blogger. I just used this link, because it gave the numbers. What the blogger makes with it is another story.

And with the NFL thing you prove me right.
Sony spends the exact same amount on the UEFA Champions League for the Playstation for every year since 1997.
When MS does it with the NFL it is: "Ah look at them! All they do is marketing!"

You can do better than that Stage.

I wasn't discounting you, I was just stating that even the blogger admitted that his post wasn't essential at all to the bottom like via advertising dollars. I know that Sony pays for Soccer advertising in Europe, but the question is how much? When we find this out we'll know who pays more overall. Also, MS must've spent quite a bit of their Xbox company dollars on paying off EA for exclusives, timed exclusive games and exclusive content as well as the free Fifa games for Xbox One launch in Europe since they were so terrified Sony would do so well in Europe according to EA. :) 

There are no games (yet). But PS4 sells anyway because it is a more powerful system for the same price.

At least One is better than WiiU in NA.

The Xbox one desperately needs those couple of thousand units that the wii u is making in Japan to reach second place during this gen.