If Sony stopped selling the PS2, sales for all 3 consoles combined would probably bump up by ~10k per week or less.
A lot of people who are buying the PS2 are probably buying it for 2 reasons.
1) their PS2 broke
2) They missed out on the PS2 and decided to buy it for old games
the small percentage of people who are buying it as a first console, probably would move to a new system, but odds are it would be the Nintendo Wii, not the PS3, because someone who is considering spending ~$120 is not going to suddenly going to change their mind and buy a $400 machine that can't even play the PS2 games they were interested in.
Now, in terms of those 120m PS2 users, just because sony isn't selling their system any more is no reason for them to upgrade.
Sony will continue to sell the PS2, and it will minimally harm the PS3's userbase, if it harms it at all.
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