Sony turned it around within PS3's lifetime. Sony always had market preeminence over Xbox in a majority of markets in the 7th gen and ended up behind 360 only in NA and the UK in the end. PS3 also ended up ahead of Wii in a few markets. Ultimately, Sony only made one bad decision, which priced PS3 too high, and that is not fatal to a brand. Lots of brands do come back from one bad decision, even if that bad decision has consequences that last a while.

Coming to the end of the 7th gen (even before the disastrous decisions on Xb one were known) only deluded fools were predicting that Durango would do better than PS4 at the global level. Most people were picking Durango to be #1 in the USA and UK, but really no where else and it probably would have been if MS hadn't made some really stupid decisions.

It's clear that millions of console gamers always remained pretty sympathetic towards Playstation, even if they went with 360 in the 7th gen they were always well disposed towards Playstation. With Sony making almost all the right decisions with PS4, and MS making almost all the wrong decisions with Xb one, millions of gamers found it very easy to go back to a brand for which they always had a positive view.

Nokia, on the other hand, made a succession of bad decisions. The first bad decision was to try to stick it out with Symbian well past the time it was clear that Symbian was a losing bet. The second bad decision was hitching itself to Windows phone, which was already in a bad spot, and with Nokia in a steep decline in phone sales pairing a declining phone brand, with a poorly performing phone OS was a very questionable business decision. But MS was offering Nokia a lot of money, so hard to turn down.

And Nokia can still come back. Hell, I would totally buy a Nokia Android phone. Their hardware has never let me down. And even the Nokia Windows phone I was forced into for work is good from a hardware perspective. But you will never convince me that Windows phone is a great phone OS. It does the job, but that's all.

You have a very strange way of telling us what is and isn't exclusivwe as well as setting down a guidline as to what can outright not be considered a AA or AAA based on your build as well as the game's design.

Also what about cowd funded games, you know the oens that make a ton of money, like Planet Coaster, who's funding was more than met, or Star Citizen which was funded millions upon millions.

I find your logic to be very iffy tbh.

Depending how the next few years go, it could be that PS4 fails to outsell PS3, simply because console gaming in general is on a bit of a decline. It's beyond doubt that total gen 8 hardware sales will be far far below total gen 7 hardware sales*, and only PS4 vs PS3 is in the running to be a win for the 8th gen. Scorpio could prove to be a big boost for Xbox, but I have my doubts it will be that big.

*provided you don't count Switch as 8th gen.

The least you could do is remain consistent within the confines of a single post. 

Because they're better than the competition plus several other reasons but that's the main reason.

That still didn't answer my question. 

Can you play it on PS4, but not PC? Then it's exclusive, and vice versa. Star Citizen isn't out yet. Mighty Number 9 was funded millions too. Is that a quality game?

So you're basically saying that if it can be played on two, then it's not somehow exclusive, despite the fact that you cannot play it on the other two systems. Also you're basing M#9 for anything that's ever been/will be funded?. Yes SC isn't out yet, but that doesn't take away the fact that it has been funded many millions, millions that put it within the AAA area.

Could you reword your first question so it's not a triple negative? I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say with it. For all I know Star Citizen could wind up being epic, and with high enough production values to put it squarely in AAA territory.

Will Switch leas Nintendo towards the same success they had before ps1 and during Wii? I hope so and I hope this time third parties start making better ports which have enough quality to sell well to the gamers. I hope Nintendo switch at the very least crosses xbox360 in sales