This is at least the 5th time you have completely misunderstood this basic concept, companies plan differently when deciding to do global or staggered launches so if Sony wanted a global launch for PS2 than they would have either began mass production earlier or launched later.

Not a huge fan of Sony but that is a pretty big achievement, fastest console in the history of the business to get to 100 million. 

Yes I fail the basic concept of companies planning to sell less. If Sony thought they could sell (and produce) more PS2 they would, same with Nintendo with Switch (and the time to launch).

You go from the assumption that they decide where and when to launch and later decides how much to manufacture, instead of how much they can produce for a set cost and then what would be the best place/time to launch. Mine assumes most profit/growth possible intended. Yours seems to assume they arbitrarily choose time and location.

This is great and well deserved, but where's my 100 million edition model PS? The one you should use to justify the $299 price tag while you officially reduce the standard model by $50 to $100.

Maybe they're skipping this celebratory model for the outsold PS1 edition coming soon?

Yep I think Sony planned on selling less, that's exactly what I said........

I believe there are multiple factors that come into play when deciding where/when to launch. One possible big factor is software, look at the PS2 launch lineup in March 2000.

Japanese launch: March 4, 2000

• A-Train 6
• Drum Mania
• Eternal Ring
• Kakinoki Shogi IV
• Kessen
• Mahjong Taikai III
• Morita Shogi
• Ridge Racer V
• Stepping Selection
• Street Fighter EX3

That's not a very western focused lineup, now let's late a look at the US launch lineup in October.

U.S. launch: October 26, 2000

• Armored Core 2
• DOA2: Hardcore
• Dynasty Warriors 2
• ESPN International Track & Field
• ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding
• Eternal Ring
• Evergrace
• FantaVision
• Gungriffon Blaze
• Madden NFL 2001
• Midnight Club: Street Racing
• NHL 2001
• Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
• Q-Ball: Billiards Master
• Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
• Ridge Racer V
• Silent Scope
• Smuggler's Run
• SSX
• Street Fighter EX3
• Summoner
• Swing Away Golf
• Tekken Tag Tournament
• TimeSplitters
• Unreal Tournament
• Wild Wild Racing
• X-Squad

Its full of guns, sports and cars which Americans love.

Could lack of western focused software in Spring/Summer be a good reason to hold off on releasing a console until Fall in the west? I think it's a very good reason.

So help us out. The SW Sony have in place to PS2 launch wouldn't push sales on the West, but if they had decided to launch in West the games would be available or they wouldn't sell much more than what they had being just in Japan? You need to pick one horse. It either would or wouldn't impact sales majorly having WW launch.

It's all hypothetical but if Sony had wanted a WW launch of PS2 than it's more likely they would have it in Fall 2000, not March.

Since anything we throw at the case that haven't happened is purely hypothetical then no one can say it isn't the right way to compare the launch aligned by first release date even if in this case it have PS2 Japan only and PS4 on more markets (still wasn't full globe). I even remember a famous thread of the smart 13 vs 49 or something like that comparing Xbox tiered launch versus Sony more spread, and that MS would demolish Sony on those markets and the extra months to other territories wouldn't impact much. And in a way the first couple months both consoles sold very near to one another, and even Xbox had shortages. So assuming that if PS2 was to be released WW at that time would mean much more sales can't be proven.

So since the initial date is all that matters than let's look at a different console for comparison.

July 1983-Aug 1985 (2 year, 1 month) NES shipped 4.33 million

Nov 1990-March 1993 (2 years, 4 months) SNES shipped 21.06 million

Would you say that's a relatively fair comparison?