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konnichiwa on 27 June 2017
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thismeintiel said:
konnichiwa said:

No DVD was very important for PS2 success.

Japan went heavy crazy for PS2 one of the biggest reasons was DVD like you can see here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4SJKcWbmAI

The PS2 almost shipped 10 million in its first two years in Japan (Took PS3 + 8 years and possible same or a little better for PS4).  With that kind of install base it had devs jumping on it to make games and others to even make promised exclusive games for another system go multiplatform.

the DVD for PS2 is basically the FFVII for PS one in Japan they had same huge effect.

This actually proves my point.  DVD had been out in Japan for 3 years before the PS2's launch.  It hadn't really caught on, just like the video says.  But, when gamers bought a PS2, which was more expensive than DVD players, those gamers decided to give DVD a try.  They eventually started to switch over.  This proves that DVD didn't help the PS2.  The PS2 helped DVD.  If it was the other way around, those DVD stores would have already been up and popular.  And the PS2 would have just made them even more popular. 

The Dreamcast having DVD wouldn't really have helped it, either.  In the end, it would have been the same console.  People were just hyped by the follow up to the highly successful PS1.  And Sony delivered on that hype.

Your point about the PS3 and PS4 really makes no sense.  That has much more to do with the home console market in Japan becoming smaller as gamers switched to HHs and mobile gaming.  Even the popular Wii only pulled off 12.8M there, while PS2 did 23.2M and the PS1 did 19.4M (without DVD.)

Really?



The buying explosion began on March 4, when Sony unleashed PlayStation 2. As many as 40% to 50% of the system's buyers admitted that they bought the system for both games and DVDs, while some admit that they simply bought it for DVDs.

 

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One of the most popular DVD titles is The Matrix. Time Warner Entertainment shipped 600,000 units of the movie in the first two weeks following the PS2 launch, and now target sales for the year are projected at 1.5 million pieces. 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/04/13/ps2-pushes-dvd-in-japan



the Wii only pulled 12 million because it had a short lifespan and their was also PS3 with 10 million sales.  Sony expected the PS3 would be an item for blu Ray fans like PS2 with DVD.