It's a hybrid.

its a hybrid "console"...

unless you don't know what a console means.

No, it's a hybrid handheld!

No wait, it's still not a console, it's a hybrid console.

It's formfactor fluid.

For some reason should the decision of 48% overthrow that of 52% because?

No what doesn't make sense is to count the 100M sales of a console that wasn't selling to regular console buyers as a reason to say this gen shrank and console is dying because those 100M won't buy again.

"Regular console buyers"

You act like gamers is a single demographic.

The PS4 could sell 200 million units and some people here would still try to minimize it accomplishment, smh. Does it really matter if the PS4 and 3DS are comparable or not? It's still a impressive milestone nonetheless.

Sadly this happens to every fanbase. We have people trying to downplay Switch success this year and people proclaiming that the X model didnt "save" XBO as if that was its goal.

I know, and it's more than sad, it's pathetic. The Switch is doing great because it's a great console with great games, this is Ninty back at the top of their game. As for the X, some Xbox fans were indeed saying that it would "save" XBO, but they don't represent the entire fanbase, and like you said it wasn't it goal. XBO don't need saving, it's not doing PS4 numbers, but that doesn't mean it's a failure.

And 15.8 million Vita owner give out a collective sigh.

I act like people that didn't buy a console before Wii (or people that stopped buying decades before Wii) and won't buy after it shouldn't be counted to try and say this gen is smaller than last in a console doom fashion. PS2+Xog->X360+PS3->X1+PS4 is more on the flat or small growth than consoles are dying because Nintendo wasn't able to keep the new demographic they were targeting in Wii.

You can't say Nintendo do blue ocean and then try to lump its demographic on the others.