firebush03 said:
You are aware Sony updated (aka Jim Ryan made a vague comment on a podcast) PS2 figures to >160mil earlier this year, right? |
The 160m figure had been out there before. I recall seeing it previously as an estimate due to Sony stopping reporting on PS2 sales years before the PS2 stopped production. Likely to make PS3/PS4 sales look better to the market and investors without the comparison in reports hanging over it. Regardless the PS2 certainly sold past the 155 mark was officially reported.
But the PS2s success was unique, it was a DVD player, after Japan/North America/Europe moved on it became cheap and the plaything of developing nations like the South America region. From all that I can tell, technology since then no longer drops in price as dramatically to produce so price drops are unlikely to ever be a thing again. Heck we've seen the opposite with Sony, mid-generation price hikes for the same machine and ridiculous prices for the pro version. Even the PS4 never had as dramatic a price drop as previous generations of consoles, which should signify the Switch released later will unlikely have a big, sales changing drop, even when the Switch successor comes out.
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