| XtremeBG said: First, I agree with your opinion of 159M for PS2. About it's last year the PS2, yes, it's maybe bigger or even but see one of my previous comments. I gave and example with the different years for PS2 and there were a few where the year after sells out better or at least on par with the year before that. But the range for Switch and if there is debate or not, should be anywhere between 159-160M not 155-162M. So if switch passes 160M, for me it outsold the PS2, unless of course Sony comes out and give official to the point number which is above 160M. |
At bold: That's right but it's a difference between any given year and the last year of production, meaning yes, it's an anomaly but plausible that a console with a long life after it's peak has years that sell better than or on par with the previous year but in it's last year of production, it seems rather unlogical that it sells more than in the previous year. Especially, as the FY2012 sold 4.1mil (I would say a very good number for a console that late in its life), if the sales in FY2013 would have surpassed it, it wouldn't make sense then to kill off the PS2 by then as obviously there would be still life in it. I know the problem is that they already had to support production lines for 4 consoles, the upcoming PS4, PS3, PSVita and even still the PSP, so supporting a 5. console would not be feasible. On the other hand, if the PS2 still could easily sell a few additional millions (and more important, sell legacy software to these new customers), Sony would do it as they are a big company, surely they would find resources to produce those additional millions and continue to support the PS2 community a little longer. (After all, Sony has a long legacy of many unsuccessful products and departments, they could have just shift/streamline some of them and focus them on the more productive PS2 line).
