Other thing is, if Sony was so into beating Switch with the PS2, or "moving the goalpost" or doing what they do just for that (announcing late 160M numbers) they should care about beating other close Nintendo consoles such as the Gameboy with the PS4. Yet they didn't produce 1.5M more to beat the 118.7M figure. Was that so hard ?
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