zorg1000 said:
Intrinsic said:
You are still ignoring the main point and basing all you ae saying on ifs and maybes.
Back in 2000 PS2s were "made in japan" and no one simply had the manufacturing might that companies like Foxconn (sp?) has brought to the market. It makes zero sense launching globally if you lack the means to make enough consoles. You simply DO NOT know if sony would have been able to make more than those 7M consoles they made in the first 6 months being that even when they released everywhere else they were still stock limited. I mean they had only like 300k consoles for the japan launch back in March 2000.
What we know is that back with the PS2 sony managed to make and ship ~7M consoles in 6 months. With the PS4 in 2013/2014, they were able to exceed those kinda numbers in 2 months. Different times. It's not like if sony could have made enough to manage a simultaneous launch they wouldn't have... they just couldn't.
I don't believe this, what do you really think is more important? Being able to make and sell 4M consoles in 6 weeks? Or where you sell those 4M consoles in?
You are here saying obviously company will plan this or that, so what does that mean? Sony planned to not meet their maximum market potential with the PS2 and release in only one region first? lol....
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I dont want to derail this thread much further especially since we have had this exact same argument before but in the 80s-early 00s staggered launches over the course of 1-2 years were common and starting in the 7th gen global or semi-global launches have become the norm, all I'm saying is that this change is something that needs to be considered when making launch aligned comparisons.
Like you said, different times so why does it make sense to compare it as if nothing has changed in the last 20 years.
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And I am saying when comparing launched from different times... you compare whatever detail they both share in common. And in this case that is the amount f units shipped. Plans change, times change... those are all subjective. What we can measure however is manufacturing capacity.
