In case YOU failed to read I stated that it is foolish to compare that totality of the XBOX home console sales to just 4 Nintendo home consoles.  Where did you say that MS is catching up to Nintendo?

Microsoft to overtake Nintendo in Home Console Sales this Century

Now if MS is to 'overtake' Nintendo in Home Console Sales this century AS YOU SAY, it certainly isn't LOSING any ground.  Not sure how you handle arithmetic but for me it's a pretty transparent concept.  Red herrings don't change that fact.  The point is that you post had no point and numerous others in this thread have pointed out.  MS isn't coming anywhere close to overtaking Nintendo in home consoles and of course Sony is dominating both companies.  Those are the facts.  Sorry to break it to you. 

We are done here.

Because he has to bend the goal posts to make his side look better :P.

So what are your takeaways from this shift that is about to happen? Is it any special accomplishment?

But it is nothing special for two reasons:

1) Microsoft enjoyed tremendous third party support ever since they entered the console business while Nintendo had to get by with scraps during the same time period. Since the console business is very momentum-driven and built on the premise that software sells hardware, healthy third support makes it a lot easier for a console manufacturer to maintain sales at a high level. This makes Nintendo the underdog in this comparison, because the odds for success have been significantly stacked against them during the timeframe that applies for this comparison.

2) The third console manufacturer, Sony, has sold twice as many home consoles as Nintendo this century. That's a huge difference.

Considering that Sony and Microsoft are a lot more similar to each other than Microsoft and Nintendo, what this thread shows is not so much that Nintendo is doing badly, but rather that Microsoft is doing badly. They shouldn't be behind Nintendo, given that Sony is so far ahead.

Nintendo being ahead of Microsoft at this point of time, that is no small feat if the circumstances are taken into account (see: point 1). But from Microsoft's perspective, being on about the same level as Nintendo is embarrassing.

Ah except I have nothing to gain estimating 360 and XB1 wrong. We have the combined figures, which means shipped, the 116m~ figure I have is factual.

If I have 360 a little high then it means I have XB1 low by that exact amount. I added known XB1 and 360 LTD's end of March, with the combined shipments over the last 6 months.

Not rocket science.

You are wrong.

On the day before the Wii launched, Microsoft had sold ~24m Xboxes and ~5.5m 360s compared to Nintendo's ~4m N64s and ~22m GCs. Therefore Microsoft had passed Nintendo some time earlier in 2006.

I mean, I could have done a straight MS VS Nintendo since they've been in the race together, but I decided to give Nintendo an edge and include sales since 2000 when Microsoft wasn't in the biz. I'm nice like that.

I recommend taking it out back and ending its misery.