Sony confirms PS2 has sold over 160 million

[Phenomajp13]

Hiku said:

killer7 said:

Its a stupid lie. Sony cannot be belived anymore.

Phenomajp13 said:

Sony are terrified

That's how much trouble PS2 is in

Sony was too scared to call it what it is today

The fear is real

I can guarantee that Sony doesn't care about this even remotely close to how much people that get emotional about it do.
The only fear they have about Playstation are their bank accounts and stock portfolios.

While you worry about which console sold the most, they worry about how to maximize profits.
That's why they are in their position, and we are here.

Like Dragonball fans debating character power levels, while the creator even forgot the name of his own series.

The people that are aware of specific console sales across multiple systems are a very niche group. People like us that go on dedicated websites to nerd over these things. The vast majority don't.

I think this is a fun subject to discuss. For example, the sentence you're focusing on could very well have been added at the initiative of the web designer, and an executive looked it over and gave the approval.
Even the 160M figure could have been based on Jim Ryan's comment, for all we know.

PS2's status as the best seller or not has no bearing on their future business.
We're not seeing "successor to best selling console in history" plastered all over every Playstation add. I can't even recall if they ever relied on that in an ad campaign. Maybe decades ago leading up to the PS3 launch?
Nintendo likewise care just as little. It's a nice feather in the hat, but their concern is the system being successful financially long term.

So thinking that any of these companies are "terrified" over something that has no bearing on thier bottom line, when all they really care about is money, is projection.

It's fine to be passionate. But at least try to consider various possibilities.

Take your own advice because it doesn't align with reality. Nintendo doesnt care but to say Sony doesn't looks ridiculous. They could have announced this in 2018, yet decided against lol. Did they not know, despite it being a platform discontinued in 2013? A prior president says it randomly on a podcast and now all of a sudden they cant wait to tell the world? You don't think they are aware of Switch? Sony has a video celebrating the history of PS and when they start talking about the future of PS, they start talking about a platform (Switch) they don't own? You think Nintendo would ever start talking about PS in a celebratory video about Nintendo's history? Literally another section of their site still says 155 as of 2012. I get it, the defense force is out in full force for PS but no need to quote others on something thats very reasonable to accuse them of. The evidence is stacked against them and yet they still reframe from being fully open about it.

Also Sony is in what position? The same Sony that told their own employees to do better with their profit margins or the same Sony laying people off? 

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