Only way Switch beats PS2 is if it gets the same boosts that PS2 received:
- Switch successor will have to bomb out of the gate like PS3 did, which greatly helped the PS2 legs.
- Switch would have to lower their price to sell at a loss. PS2 was sold at a loss for a while, with some estimates in 2001 saying it was losing anywhere between $100-180 per hardware sale. That boosted sales incredibly by having such a cheap price point. And that's not even taking the price reduction into consideration, which also helped a ton.
- Switch continues to be manufactured like crazy at least 2 years after its successor comes out.
If the playing field was fair and the PS2 was sold at break even (or profit, like Nintendo does), if the PS3 never bombed out of the gate, and if Sony greatly reduced production and distribution of the PS2 after the PS3 came out (kind of like they are doing with the PS4 now that the PS5 is out), then we wouldn't even be having this conversation as the Switch would have already passed the PS2 lifetime.
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