Sony CEO: Casual Games on PS2 to Compete with Wii Coming

[HappySqurriel]

MikeB said:

HappySqurriel said:
Focusing your effort on a system which users are moving away from (and new users are not buying into in real force anymore) to try to compete with a system which is attracting users at record levels is not a good move ...

We are talking about a console which by far sold the most units globally in 2006, even during christmas 2006.

We are talking about a console which still beats global 360 hardware sales the past few weeks according the website.

It's a console that's already profitable, cheap to sell and will drop in price even more this year. Games shops around the world are stuffed with a huge varierty of easily affordable PS2 games.

I say keeping the PS2 alive for as long as it makes sense benefits not only Sony, but also consumers.

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 08th Jan 2006 to 31st Dec 2006:

Console	PS2
Total	11,741,063

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 07th Jan 2007 to 30th Dec 2007:

Console	PS2
Total	8,868,374

 

In 2007 the PS2 sold 75% of what it sold in 2006, it is likely going to sell between 50% and 75% of its 2007 total in 2008 ... At the same time, so far 45 Million people have already moved from the previous generation to the current generation with (likely) 40 Million upgrading this year; the vast majority of these gamers will have owned a PS2 and are not (likely) going to be impacted by a half-assed effort to lure "casual" gamers towards the PS2.