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LethalP on 25 June 2017
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zorg1000 said:
LethalP said:

I'm saying that because who says those 30 million wouldn't have just bought a PS2 and a DVD player? It was the dominant console with the best library so I doubt the addition of a DVD player made all the difference to them to make them buy the severely less supported competition. I know 125 million is just a roundabout number, but I think you're overestimating the DVD's influence on it's sales. And again, the software tie ratio doesn't lie. 

Like you pointed out, it was a random roundabout number so dont look into it too much. Maybe it would have been PS2-140m vs XB/GC/DC-60 million.....who knows, all myself and others are getting at is that DVD functionality caused PS2 to sell more than it would have without it.

 

As for tie ratio, PS/GC/XB/360/Wii/PS3 all had a similar tie ratio to PS2 so im not sure why that keeps getting brought up.

To be fair you're not the type of person I was originally talking about. There are those who straight up say PS2 only sold so well because of the DVD player, and these people tend to be Nintendo fans since Xbox fans keep out of these conversations to boot lol.

The tie ratio proves it wasn't being bought primarily as a DVD player like some would have you believe, that's all.