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Teeqoz on 16 September 2015
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spemanig said:
Teeqoz said:

They did this exact same thing during the PS2 days. Actually, by the same point in the PS2's life, it had gotten a 100$ price cut in the US. And this will come to the west. Sony's forecast for Playstation Operating Income from july 30th confirmed it even then. It will be announced before the holiday.


Not for nothing, but weren't the PS2's sales more long term rather than meteoric, like the PS4's? The PS4 isn't selling like the PS2 right now, it's selling like the Wii. The PS2 sold well because it sold well consistantly over a long time. I was under the impression that the PS4 is currently selling faster than the PS2 was at the same time. Is that incorrect? Not debating, just getting my facts straight.


The PS2 was kinda both. While I don't have any specific numbers (though I could go and look them up), the PS4 is ahead of the PS2 at the moment in terms of shipped numbers worldwide, but that's only because in the PS2's first 9 months (or something like that) it was only available in Japan. So it's not really a accurate representation of the PS4vsPS2 comparison.

EDIT: So I searched a bit through Sony's old Investor Relations archives, plus some googling to get the various PS2 launch dates and here's what I got from it:

PS2 was only available in Japan from March 4th to October 26th in 2000, or roughly 7 and a half months. In that period it sold a bit more than 2 million. Naturally it skews the comparison to the PS4's basically worldwide launch (though sure, Japan got the PS4 3 months later, but getting japan 3 months later today matters way less than getting the US and Europe 7 and a half months later in 2000).