US is not declining except the wii casuals............Japan is smaller yes, thats understood, doesn't change the fact you are wrong.

??? The 360 had MANY months below 250k...and that sold near 50 mill in the US.....facts get some...Also ths gen is the first that had so much stock at launch, againa  fact you keep ignoring and cannot rebut....ps3 and 360 sales took longer to meet demand.

The wii fell off a cliff, for a market leader that was sad.

No, people only expect the market leader to be leading.  And that is what its doing.  The PS4 is outperforming both the best selling console of all time and all of it concurrent competition.  The militant attack against the PS4 is ridiculous considering the results of other consoles.  Present some real data.  You are cherry picking like a mofo.  When the PS4 tops 250k in September which is about 100% certain, will it go back to being the "market leader"?  Or will you introduce another arbitrary measure to suit your needs. 

What happened to objective reasoning.  You have subjective definitions for objective terms.   Its not even opinion.  Its just wrong.  The PS4 is the market leader... it has outperformed nearly all consoles .  What is the point of being so wrong?

US is declining too. 190k for a market leader is weak. 

PS2 was crushing 300k+ its first August and it's not like it had a ton of games at that point either -- that's what a strong market leader looks like. 

People have just lowered their expectations so much that this has become the new normal. 

Just to put some perspective... this PS2 numbers is production shipment... so everything Sony produced and not what they shipped to retail like they started to do after 2006... that can means less than 9 million sold.

Again you ignore all ponts....

It is 1 month for $400 consoels that sold WAY more then every console ever. at launch..of course it would be slow in August...ps3 and 360 would be too...360 the market leader had many months below 250k.............wii died.

Us is not in decline because of 1 month, that makes no sense....wait until the holidays, yuo will look silly.

You keep bringing up a pecific month ignoring total sales thjat is BS and spin....1 month does not begate it being the second fastest ever to hit 10 million, and SEPT is going to be huge.

Also US <> world......there are other emerging markets picking up the slack.

Destiny bundle also cannibalized some sales in AUG from people waiting.

Kind of brings us back to an earlier thing I said, though, (which I'll reiterate in case you didn't read it,) which is that measuring two seperate generations brings with it a long, long list of conditional addeddums and alterations. The PS2 was only out in Japan those months, BUT there wasn't the same far more focused attention to mobile and PC gaming, BUT the PS2 had a DVD drive allowing access to a media format that its competitors didn't, BUT the European market may have developed enough to offset the loss of interest in Japan, BUT there were far more 'console exclusives' during the PS2 generation, with less of the direct crossover we see today between the Xbox and Playstation brands, leaving the two direct competitors far more similar to one another than, say, the PS2 was from the Gamecube, BUT etc etc etc.

Measuring the PS4 against a console sold in a different time, to a different market, with different features and a different climate is very difficult, because the two consoles are dazzlingly dissimilar in terms of their strategies, the amount of exclusive software, even the mettle and aims of their competitors.

At this point, if Sony is facing a problem, it seems to consist of 'more people should buy consoles in general,' because if anything is causing them to, as you phrased it, underperform, it sure as heck isn't the competition. =P

So suppose my question, therefore, is what do you think Sony should do to get the market more interested in console gaming?

those numbers only include 6 months in the US and 4 in EU for the PS2, they include 9 in both for PS4.  They both have a holiday so that's fair.  The only thing that's unfair for PS4 is Japan but the number is so small for the PS4 it would make little difference. 

PS2's holiday 2001 will absolutely *rape* any console this holiday season. 

PS2 has soundly beaten PS4 month for month this year pretty much across the board. 

Same for Wii if we look at the same months. 

This isn't just a one month trend, it's been going on for most of this year. 

Eu of course.  Plenty smaller markets are gowing there, na is falling in general.  Matching it is dependent mostly on time, id bet years alingned in the future will show this gen having greater sales.