3ds is raaaaaaping in Japan o.o

MK8's legs are amazing
Poor Xbox 1 almost selling like the PS3

Christ, what did the Wii have in year 1?

MS's problem is that they never really had gamer's trust. They benefited from a loss of faith in Sony, and then from the seemingly short lived motion control craze. But neither of those thing created any real commitment to the brand. Then there was the pre-launch alienation of consumers which damaged the brand. So now MS is looking more or less at sales around the level of XB1. But in reality with Sony carrying all the momentum into the generation from PS3 performance post 2009 and making an attractive console with PS4, Xb one was never going to be in a position to repeat Xb 360 sales. 

I hope Xbox fans realise this, and an Xbox turnaround does not mean selling 80 -90 million, but rather 50-60 million.

I'm heartily sick of people saying there are no games on PS4 to justify the sales so that means buyers are blind fanbase. Whether stated explicitly or not that is the meaning behind statements claiming the game library does not justify the sales. 

To those people who say their PS4 is gathering dust, why don't you trade it in? Surely you're not keeping it just to fill empty space. So I assume, like everyone else you bought it for one or two games that are already out, and the knowledge that PS4 will bring great games in the the next year or so. Anticipation of future reward and confidence in the quality of coming games is not "hype alone". 

Why do people KEEP doing this, and assuming that a ban lifting and imposing a permitted allowance of 5 million, somehow means 5 million have, or will sell any time soon?

Do you think that china, of all places, are going to buy, in one month, as many consoles as america and the major countries in europe did in just under a year?

Have we ever had information about european sales from a source like npd or famitsu/mediacreate?

I think it's important to remember that, mistakes/advantages/etc aside, as far as worldwide sales goes, Every playstation home console has come out above every microsoft console.

PS2 outsold xbox, PS3 outsold xbox 360 (consistently enough to bridge the 1 year headstart), just as PS4 has and will continue to outsell the Xbox One.

If Microsoft can't, with their best hand (xbox 360), beat Sony with their worst hand (PS3), the chances of them beating them with the roles reversed are slim to none.

It's true the Xbox 360 gained a lot of marketshare and quite a few people switched to it as their primary console, but as much as people might not want to admit it, console loyalty is very much a minotiry group, the average gamer has no problems at all with switching to another platform, and hindsight has shown that PlayStation offers them the broadest range of games in a consoles lifespan of the three, while Nintendo is the best, and only place, to play Nintendo's own signature style of games.

Aside from the fans of a handful of franchises, it comes down to price and performance in multiplatform games, and for many that, combined with the initial nightmare reveal has more or less sealed the xbox ones fate.

nah was meant to you, just in agreement

The salt was nearly as epic as the sales! September will be godlike!

I love me some salt. It makes the performance even more grandiose!