Barkley said:
But we're not playing that game. My point was that it's stupid to discount DS sales, and it's equally stupid to make dumb claims to try and discount the PS2. And there's a difference between the PS2 at launch in Japan selling great because of DVD feature and attributing the DVD feature to it reaching 155m sales globally. People say the PS2 sold because of it's DVD player in the USA which makes zero sense considering the price of DVD players compared to the price of the PS2. |
No I am not, you are. I am only coming at you with facts and putting and end to unfounded claims in an attempt minimize the DS and maximize the PS2.
The cold hard (historical) truth is that the PS2 was for many people the first DVD player. So much so that it pushed the format to the dominant format for many many years. Now you can say that there were other DVD players out, but honestly how can that be an argument when many people bought the PS2 as a multimedia device, with games as another option included. It's really a nonsense argument based on nothing. Add that with Sony A: selling the PS2 for 13 years and B: having a wider global distribution level, you can see why the sales are the way they are.
And I am not saying that it only sold cause of DVDs, what I am saying is that it certainly drove the momentum in the first years of the PS2's long lifespan.
