| yo33331 said: You obviously haven't read my last comment, The benefits that PS2 had were because Sony make those .. The benefits are the low price (because of which PS2 had big difference in price with the PS3) and the continuous marketing they did for the system, not some dvd players or psp ports you are talking about, they may help a little bit but only by a very small margin. The big factor was the price and the marketing. If Nintendo do the same good support for the system for a couple of years more and cut the price when it's needed switch might reach PS2. if not then no. If sony did the same thing with PS3 it would have sold at least 20-30M more units, and if they did it with the PS4, it could reach PS2 numbers lifetime, or at least 140-150M for sure. |
I disagree with this. The PS2 didn't drop to $100 until 2008 or 2009 (when it was already over 130M sold). The Gamecube, on the other hand, dropped to $100 in 2003, when it was still being supported and marketed heavily. There is obviously something more than just marketing and affordability.
I honestly think PS4 would have hit 125M max with a good price cut (whereas now it might only hit 117M). The market just isn't the same as it once was. There hasn't been a console that has sold over 20M after their successor releases since the PS2. People are used to moving onto the biggest and best thing (thank the smartphone market for that). The reason why people think the Switch can sell close to the PS2 has to do with how fast it is selling currently, not how long it will sell after the Switch 2 comes along.
