I thought Sony released a statement saying the PS4 was selling faster than the PS2?

From release yes...But that includes PS2 being only available in Japan for 8 months.

I have been able to play games on some device or another since the Vic 20. I'm fairly confident I'll continue to be able to play games on something as long as I wish.  

MS was the second largest public company in the world behind GE in 2001, in 2002 they became the largest.  They were 8 times bigger than Sony back then, and 40 times bigger than Apple.  

They were big and had lots of money.  And the OG Xbox didn't come at no expense, it's reported to have lost them Billions.  

If Xbox was a videogame only company and this was it's debut console it would've been bankrupt.

You say it's not about numbers but all you're doing here is just pointing out numbers that are from the past.  The Gamecube did sell less than the N64 in hardware, but sold almost as much in software.  It also had the best attach rate of any Nintendo home console to date, better than the Wii, SNES or NES.

The Xbox had around a 11% market share for it's debut console but it cost them Billions, NEC also had around a 11% market share for the debut of the TurboGrafx-16 (aka PC Engine) and never gets the same Cinderella story comparisons as the OG Xbox.

Consoles are fine but software business is not, companies don't create much Ips like they used to, and names are shrinking

You know that is a very god question. I had ideas now I am not sure. I have to research that later however my suggestion is to focus more on local mulitplayer and worry more about games than multimedia functions. (Multimedia functions are fine but should not be the main selling point or drive the system up like $100)

Edit: I should probably make a sequel to my gen to gen comparison.