Dulfite said:
PS2 launched in an economically successful era. The housing market collapse didn't happen until 8-9 years after PS2 launched. NS launched in 2017 and by the beginning of 2020 the global economy went to the toilet. Shortages, mass layoffs, stock market values plummeting, mass inflation. People got really picky on what they spent money on for 1/2 to 2/3rd's of the NS' life cycle, and yet it *still* came close to having a better games to console ratio than the PS2. And that's without even going into the fact that towards the last few years of the PS2's life they sold it for dirt cheap so people would buy more games, inflating those numbers more, whereas Nintendo is still selling the NS at a large profit point per console sold. |
None of that has anything to do with his point. PS2 has a high tie ratio. The DVD myth needs to stop being parotted especially to the degree of "Probably 20-30 million PS2 sales, at least, came from people simply wanting a cheaper DVD player".
The vast majority of buyers bought it to play games.
Also "PS2's life they sold it for dirt cheap so people would buy more games, inflating those numbers more" I'm not sure you understand how tie ratio works. Selling hardware dirt cheap would lower the tie ratio if anything.
