According to a recent article that was published on MCV's website last week (which cited original source VentureBeat), it was announced that Nintendo has been receiving considerable interest in comparison to Microsoft's and Sony's own videogame operations. However, whilst the article may have stated that "three times as many internet searches were made for Nintendo-related terms than were for either PlayStation or Xbox in the US through 2016", on a worldwide scale however, this assertion seems to have been unfairly skewed and heavily biased in terms of how the facts have been reported - as proven by a cursory investigation via Google Trends.
As you can see by the data below, Nintendo has consistently been trailing behind both PlayStation and XBox in terms of average internet interest over the last 12 months. Not only that, but there is no evidence to suggest that "three times as many internet searches were made for Nintendo-related terms than were for either PlayStation or Xbox in the US through 2016" - especially when the data shows that "Xbox" accounts for the majority of internet searches in both the US and across the world (by a considerable margin).

Of course, whilst "XBox" did win in terms of internet searches, the above da...