By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Intrinsic on 12 September 2014
Edit Thread
fatslob-:O said:
Intrinsic said:

like he said,

how many times are you gonna ignore the facts????? "4 months" (better?) does not negate total sales. You keep focusing on 4 months to spin your argument, ignoring all the sales data.........

either way... 1 month or 4 months the facts still remain. the PS4 got to 10M before the PS2. And the PS2 went onto become the best seling console of all time. 

Lets look at it another way, if you sell 300k of your console for 12 months (january to december) and end the year having sold 3.6M consoles, and I sell 50k of my console for 9 months but somehow.... I end the year (also after 12 months) having sold 5M consoles. 

Of the two of us who do you think would be regarded as more successful? How is it possible that you do not see the sense in this?

You know damn well that the comparisons aren't fair since the PS2 has had yet to launch in the majority of it's regions at that time so why don't you align the territory releases together to see how well that goes. 

So you want to get into semantics? Ok

  • PS2 launched at $300
  • It was also the cheapest DVD player on the market and basically brought DVDs to the masses
  • PS2 had no competition, both the original XB and Gamecube launched over 18 months after it launched.
  • There were no tablets and smartphones back then, so games like "parapa the rapper" which today could only ever be a casual tablet game could be on the PS2. Basically, the PS2 didn't have to also fight with tablets or smartphones canibalizing sales.

I could go on, hell we can start talking about inflation and/or how back then practically every third party game was exclusive to the PS2. But as I said, thats all just semantics. There are simply too many variables. But one thing

sigh never mind. this is pointless.