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

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Fight-the-Streets said:

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).

This is a question unanswered from years ago (the only answer is they had 4 systems in production so they had to cut out the PS2). Even if PS2 last year did the same 4.1M or even lower for example 3M or even 2M if you want, there was no need to cut the production off since almost all of the consoles are made till their last year sales are 1M or even below that. So PS2 had at least 2-3 more years on the market to reach the 1M or lower sales for a year. They didn't have a reason to stop sell it other than the production line getting 5 consoles.