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foxtail on 20 June 2017
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thismeintiel said:
Mnementh said:

I see it a little different. I see the reason for long lasting sales pf PS2 in two facts. One, the global distribution chains werent as well established as they are now. In some regions the PS2 just had started sellign a year or two before, and Ps3 wasn't on market yet. The second reason is, that the PS3 started slow. As PS3 seemed initially unattractive many games still came to PS2 and many people still bought the device. If Ps5 starts well, game development will switch fast and PS4 will fall down in sales in a year or so.

Then, can you explain away the decent legs the PS1 saw after the PS2 launched?  Sure, they weren't as good as PS2's, but it still sold 23M from 2001-2004, after the PS2 was launched WW.  I think the PS4 is going to do something similar.


In May of 2002 Sony cut its official price of the PS1 to clearence-like pricing of only $49/£49 MSRP.  

That was a cut of 1/6 of the PS1 launch price of $299.  

An official price cut of 1/6 of the launch price doesn't happen very often, if at all.

Without it's official $49/£49 price points the PS1 likely would not have crossed the 100M mark before the end.

To put that in perspective most other new games at that time were also $50 or more. Conker's Bad Fur Day launched a year earlier in March of 2001 on the N64 for a MSRP 69.95 USD.

So the PS1 was effectivly as cheap as a new game (or cheaper) from 2002 onward.  Buy a disc/cart game, or for the same price buy a console with controller.