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. |
If people bought it as DVD players the software tie ratio would be lower, as it means a piece of hardware was sold but not software was sold for thar hardware
Your point about economic crisis is meaningless, because PS2 have higher tie-ratio than any console Nintendo as well
People bought PS2 to play games. That's all
