I think the logic was that since the PSP could be connected to a TV via cable it counts as a home console. The DS couldn't, thus it's a handheld. Which means PS3 + PSP > Wii, which makes Sony the winner in the home console space (as handhelds don't count).

It's just a joke, by the way. 

I made a rough graph of worldwide hardware market share (Sony and Nintendo only, no Xbox), consoles and handhelds combined, from 2010 to 2025. Numbers are according to VGChartz and up until November 2025. Subject to errors, of course. Full disclaimer: I'm a pesky European, so there are commas instead of dots. 

Also, back in 2007 to 2010 or so, I worked for VGchartz as a writer and analyst. During this time I took the time to dig up some older sales data and make a graph for global hardware market share for all major companies. Note: In this graph, Nintendo is blue and Sony is red - that's just how it was back then. Maybe someone thinks these are interesting. In my opinion, this is the best way to determine who "wins" in the console business.

Please note: 2010 numbers are different (and probably correct) in the old graph, since VGChartz doesn't track the PS2 and thus its 2010 sales are not represented in the first graph.

I am realizing now, if Switch 2 sell more than PS5 then logical reasoning will align with console warring and Switch 1 and 2 will be considered 9th and 10th gen systems just to give the win for PS4 on 8th gen. Thats is just how pathetically the internet rolls

It's funny you post that in this thread, because this thread was made for the sole purpose of the exact opposite, give Nintendo as many "championships", by the OP wording, over Playstation so he could be happy with it.

But then you come to post about how it's made to make the PS4 win something, but of course...

It's really amusing to see how the interner rolls, indeed!

The thing is, with generational lines blurring the way they are we are always going to have these discussions because declaring a "winner" is not so clear-cut.

Overall, the picture looks like this: About 2/3 of the time Nintendo is market leader and around 1/3 of the time Sony is.

Who's selling the most consoles depends on which point of the product lifecycle a company's console is at, though. Consoles usually start slow, then peak and then decline again. So it's always fluctuating. Things have changed a lot since the PS2 and DS days when a winner could easily be declared.

You talk about this thread, I am talking about this subject that started way before, when Switch was declared DOA...

At first, I thought: "how come some people are so dense that cant understand a simple concept such as generation?", then time passed and I realized the motivation behind that stupid reasoning using so many arbitary characteristics when its convinient, such as power, library and other stuff with the sole reason to give their favorite system the imaginary throphy of "Xth generation winner".

When Switch was showing signs to be a huge success, I could see many posts such as: "Nintendo won 8th gen bc it had 2 chances"

I read this thread more like a "Ha! You all started this shit, now deal with it"

The Switch 8 years in the market had it be the best selling system in 4 of them (2019 to 2022), so 50% of its lifecycle.

The PS4 7 years in the market had it be the best selling system in 5 of them (2014 to 2018), ~71,5% of its lifecycle.

The PS5 4 years up until now it had been the best selling system in 2 of them and we are about to discover if the PS5 or the Switch 2 was the best selling system for 2025, which would be PS5 5th year, so either 40% or 60% of its lifecycle up until now.

So even in the last 10 years or so, with the Switch sucess, a Playstation system was the market leader more often than not, not the opposite.

Nintendo systems have the biggest peak sales, that are much higher, but are not the market leaders more often than not.

Going back and including all kinds of hardware sales, when Nintendo was still supporting 2 simultaneous systems, yeah, historically Nintendo itself as a whole was the market leader for A LOT of the time.

Or generations don't make sense because of out of cycle launches.  

ps4: 2013

switch: 2017

ps5: 2020

Switch is close to being equally between the ps4 and ps5, so what generation is it?  Answer should be, who ****ing cares?  But staying on topic, there isn't a clean answer.  Everyone is going to have a difference of opinion.  

Plus, while console gamers are warring, Steam and Epic have 225,000,000 monthly active users.  

Edit

ps5: 2020

Switch 2: 2025

ps6(?): 2028

Again, what generation is the Switch 2?  Heck if I know.  I do know it has great games; I own one and I don't work for Nintendo.

Pong is considered as a late Gen 1 console together with Odyssey. Perhaps you can also argue that it was the start of Gen 2.

Shush - don't muddy the waters on this pointless but otherwise entertaining thread with an alternate perspective and facts! The gall sir, the gall.