Tachikoma said:
PlayStation 1's generation rival was the 64, both were 6th generation consoles, I mentioned moving goalposts because i suspected you would bolster the numbers by adding handhelds to home consoles, the problem is, handhelds are on their own generational timeline, so adding them and calling it "nintendos 5th generation" is disingenuous. The more amusing part is, even if you go ahead and combine and split the handheld sales based on matching years for the generations of home consoles, the PlayStation 1 and 2 still sold more, and heres the thing too, N64 and gameboy/gbc/gba games cost more to manufacture than PlayStation 1 and 2 disks, because PCB silicon and the associated memory chips, logic and for many games, attached battery, costs more per unit than disk based games did, so the profit margin for PlayStation 1 and 2 games was notably higher, increasing further as each generation progressed. Then theres the pricing, well lets just look at it shall we?
$89.99 for the hardware, $19.99 for the games, even though later games would release at slightly higher prices, compare that to the following year: Yet that same year? Closely followed by the PS2 that went on to sell over 155m units. I'm sorry but with higher profit margins and much higher unit sales, all logic and verifiable data points to the PS1 and PS2 winning the 5th and 6th gen in every concievable manner, whether you fudge your numbers by including handhelds of different generations or not. |
The information is all published online. Nintendo posted higher operating income for most years than the gaming sector of Sony. They also sell much more first party games.
