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thismeintiel on 01 January 2013
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pezus said:
JayWood2010 said:
pezus said:
It's one of the biggest deals we can talk about. What else is there to talk about on a sales site? You see the DS vs. PS2 discussion? Yeah, imagine that but multiply it by around 2.


You see some of the most pathetic comments in that thread.  People arguing over a console that is over a decade year old i just don't get.  The thing is we don't even know how much the PS2 has sold.  We are just guessing but people act like they know.  This is another one that I think is going to get blown way out of proportion and a nother argument that I will stay out of because of that.

No, we aren't. We are using evidence to estimate sales. This is an attitude that, imo, needs to go because we're on a goddamn sales website. We discuss the sales on a sales website. PS2 vs. DS sales is a hot topic that deserves to be discussed, even though we don't get "hard" numbers from Sony. We don't need to be fed hard numbers to be allowed to discuss the sales, do we? No, because we know better than that.

I don't know why Jay is even saying that.  We actually do have hard numbers.  At the end of FY2011 (March 2012), Sony announced that 155.1M PS2s had been shipped.  We also know that from Sony's wording in their last quarter, the PS3 was down YOY.  So, the PS2 must have shipped at least 1M for that to be true.  So, the PS2, has shipped at least 156.1M, as of Sept. 2012.  Or should I not be talking about this on a sales site? 

Edit:  Damn, I used logic to figure that out.  To Jay, that means I'm full of it.  Oh, well.