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I don’t care who wins the console wars, but your facts are just wrong:

I don’t know where you got your numbers from. Over the Black Friday weekend the Xbox One was responsible for 31% of all console sale, the 360 responsible for 30% of all sale. The PS4 was responsible for 12% of sales.

If you are referring to comments by Michael Patcher he’s giving you his guesstimate, he has no real sales figures. Those numbers I quoted you are directly from sales figures from Target and WalMart. In fact I’ll go you one further... I think Patcher is full of horse dung; go back and read about product shipments... Sony once again (like the PS3) undershipped for the Holiday season, there are simply not enough units to meet demand. On the other hand Microsoft has shipped 3x the amount of units they initially shipped for the Xbox 360. In fact quite a few analysts are projecting Xbox One may win initial sales simply because of the consoles availability.

Both Sony and Microsoft have each sold 2 million consoles worldwide since launch:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/11/5199600/xbox-one-2-million-sales

So I have no clue what Patcher is talking about.

Microsoft may find that their eventual niche is as a games and peripherals supplier.

The Xbox, and their keyboards (especially the ergonomics, I use them on all three of my PC's home and office) and mice, are clearly very competitive and give value for dollar.

Their software? Increasingly, not so much.....