Can the PS4 really outsell the PS2?

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

BraLoD said:

Hello VGChartz, sup?

I just finished reading an article about Morpheus and the VR future and this question started to pick on me.

First, since when the PS4 releases I'm in the group who doesn't think it's going to happen.

While I believe it'll be extremely successful and sell around 120M units worldwide by the end of it's life, now I'm starting to question myself again.

The Playstation, the original, proved how much a console could grow, and the PS2 after it made it clear to everyone, if you hit the right price and is able to get to the mainstream you can get huge. That plus the high quality and vast diversity that Sony always provided their gamers made the success of this two, but the Wii also proved that not only the games + price is the way to appeal to them, also innovations can be very welcomed, and the Wii motion controls were a big blast. 

Now, can VR be the new thing?

Sony already have the lead in the market, a big one, the PS4 is already a success and it's futire only seems more and more bright, but can VR make ot go beyond what we expect?

Sony has showed us the hardware is more than enough in Morpheus, we always (at least the most of people) believe in Sony to deliver software and partner with high quality cstudios as well to always deliver a very pleaseble experience to its users, and with the PS4 has showed us again they know how to price things right and understand their consumers needs and expectations, so if they can give us a nice price to Morpheus, I can see it becoming a huge thing, maybe enough to put it over the all time king PS2.

I m talking about people telling eachother how cool it is, how they need to check it, and bring a lot of people to videogames again.

I honestly still don't know what to expect, but if Sony can get this thing on a nice price I may end up believing this will actually be the system to be able to say it's looking to the PS2 from the top.

Feel free to give your opinion guys, just don't make the mods want to swing the banhammer over your heads

No.

The only possible way for the PS4 to beat the PS2 is:

Total current console market size at least greater than or equal to that of total ps2 sales and PS4 having a greater percentage of the distribution the closer the current market size is to PS2 sales.

I.e

If TCCMS was 200 mil, PS4 would need approx 75%. This is basically the PS2's scenario

If TCCMS was 150 mil, PS4 would need approx 100%

Since PS4 is current around 50%, all else equal TCCMS would need to hit 300 mil

Keep in mind last gen topped at around 270 mil