PS4 Still beating PS2, launch aligned

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Ljink96 said:

PS2 didnt get to 157M because people wanted a cheap dvd player back in 2000, it kept on selling after PS3 because it was so cheap and affordable enough to continue selling in emerging markets. Launch aligned PS4 is beating PS2. Also VHS was still king in 2000, in 2002 I bought a dvd player for 50 euro or so.

PS4 is well on its way to do ~100M in just 6 years, it wont have PS2 legs but it also wont collapse like the PS3 did.

If people bought it for games and because it was cheap, we'd see higher results in game software sales....which we don't.  Just going off VGChartz alone, Wii which sold 57 million units less than PS2, the software sales are on par if not better than PS2s. Well, yeah Wii Sports was bundeld sure. But PS2 had bundles as well. But just to be fair, Xbox 360 also has toe to toe software sales not including digital. What I'm getting at is not everybody who bought a PS2 bought it for gaming. DVD was huge in the early 2000's hell, my dad was a manager of a blockbuster around that time, they couldn't fathom a entire film on a thin disc and DVD players were expensieve, until the PS2 came out especially in Japan. 

where are you looking? the ps2 nearly sold double the amount of software and has a better tie ration than the wii

 

	Platform	Hardware	Software	Tie Ratio	Games
1	PlayStation 2 (PS2)	157.68	1,661.95	10.54	3,549
2	Xbox 360 (X360)	85.78	1,006.36	11.73	3,673
3	PlayStation 3 (PS3)	86.83	973.72	11.21	3,312
4	Wii (Wii)	101.18	965.78	9.55	2,808