Will Switch outsell DS? PS2? Or Neither? (March 2024 Update Poll)

[trunkswd]

RolStoppable said:

Tober said:

Well 160 for the PS2 it is then. It's from the mouth of the CEO, so it does not get more official than that. Happy that got clarified.

The only weird thing is why a publicly traded company as Sony didn't update their own statistics to keep them accurate a long time ago.

It can get more official than that: When it is in a financial report, because there can be legal consequences for misreporting in a publicly traded company. On the other hand, Jim Ryan won't face any legal consequences if it turns out that he rounded the number to 160m, because the occasion on which he said it was not a financial presentation.

If you had been around a decade ago, you'd know the reason why Sony did what they did. The Vita was a big failure in the making, so after the fiscal year ending March 2012 they combined their home consoles (PS2+PS3) as well as their handhelds (PSP+Vita) to cover up. Not too long afterwards, Microsoft stopped giving shipments numbers for their Xbox consoles, because the Xbox One underperformed in a big way.

I remember that all too well. Only Nintendo kept reporting numbers for each platform of theirs no matter how low they got.