| zorg1000 said: I still dont agree with the PS2 vs PS4 comparison since PS2 was only available in Japan for the first 8 months but regardless 100m in 68 months is extremely impressive. |
I've never quite understood this argument.
A staggered launch is a meaningless qualifier to use. And is only relevant if it can be shown that they had the stock to meet the demand of a global launch.
Another way to look at it is like this. Between March and September, 2000 sony shipped ~7M PS2 in Japan alone. In the first 6 weeks alone of the PS4 sony shipped(and sold) over 4.3M PS4s in everywhere but Japan.
So lets flip perspectives a bit... If sony had a global launch of the PS2, there is NOTHING indicating that they would have been able to make anything more than the 7M PS2s they shipped in the first 6 months of the PS2s life. At the end of the day, all that really matters is how much of a product a company can make and not where they are selling it or not.
