The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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RolStoppable said:

PAOerfulone said:

I've noticed that nobody has brought this up (from what I've seen anyway)
But imagine if at the end of this, as the Switch is winding down and it is actually getting close to that 159-160 million mark, Sony decides to pull the ultimate dick move and says final PS2 shipments are over 160 million. The last official number we have on PS2 sales (not shipped) from Sony is "More than 155.0 million as of March 31, 2012."

And worldwide production had officially ceased by January 4th, 2013.

The fact that 155 million number is sales and not shipped means it was closer to 160 million by March 2012 before it ended production. Somewhere within the 157-158 million range if I had to guess. That means it had another 8-9 months of shipments before Sony finally ceased production. It's not too farfetched to believe it could have tacted on another 1-2, maybe 3 million within that period. And assuming it's true, I could certainly see Sony being petty enough to do something like that. Especially after that "brand strength" shot they took at Nintendo a few months ago from out of nowhere.

That would be a lie on Sony's part, so they won't do it.

The page you linked to lists the PS2 figure under "sell-in" a.k.a. shipped, so your whole math is way off to begin with. The decimal 0 in 155.0m provides us with additional clarity, because the same list names other consoles with decimal figures too. This means that "more than 155.0m" also means "less than 155.1m."

Final PS2 shipments might actually be a bit lower than previously assumed by putting various pieces of information together. 158m is pretty much the best case scenario.

It has pretty much been mathematically proven that 158m is actually the worst case scenario for PS2. You even participated in a thread that discussed these shipments.