By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
konnichiwa on 26 June 2017
Edit Thread
thismeintiel said:
konnichiwa said:

Seriously XD?

First of all Xbox released a year later and was more expensive than a PS2, secondly by that time it also had a lot of game titles, thirdly if you wanted to watch DVD movies you had to buy a seperate adaptor.... 

Panasonic Q GC did not do great because the time it released their were already +8 million PS2 consoles sold in Japan + it was also not that cheap.   
Why you don't ask yourself, why Nintendo/panasonic still went trough with making a DVD GC if DVD was not that important for PS2 sales? Maybe because a lot of Japanese families reported they got a PS2 in the first year because it was a great family system? It was simply a great gift for parents themself who could watch DVD movies with it and their kids playing games.

@ bold

Nope.  You need to look that up, again.  PS2 launch price $299.  Xbox launch price $299.  PS2 price when Xbox launched...$299.  They both cost the exact same.  And they both got cuts to $199, $179, and $149 at the same time, too.  So, price had nothing to do with it. And the adaptor was only $30 and came with a remote.  A mere $30 dollars does not explain the HUGE difference between the two.

1 year headstart?  When has that made a difference?  That didn't help the Genesis, which actually got a 2 year head start, beat the SNES.  It didn't help the 3DO, Jaguar, or Saturn (more like 1/2 a year) beat the PS1, or even the N64.  It didn't help the Dreamcast beat the PS2, or even GC/Xbox.  It didn't help the 360 beat the Wii, or even PS3.  And it definitely didn't help the Wii U beat the PS4, or even XBO.  1 year means nothing if you stop constantly delivering after that year.

ugh, I think you are starting to lose people now. The headstart of the Genesis certainly helped it, it even became the most selling console in Europe. Big gains compared to what the Master System did. That's why they always tried to release their console first. Saturn did a good fight the first year but it has to many issues. Dreamcast headstart kept it atleast alive for some time, if it released with PS2 around the same time it would have game over in months. Kind of amazed that you say the x360 headstart did not help its sales, it certainly did had an efffect especially if you compare it with the xbox that had not a headstart.