When will the Switch outsell the PS2 and pass 160M ?

[Phenomajp13]

Pinkie_pie said:

Phenomajp13 said:

Yes shilling for Sony because you blatantly left out Sony also said 155 million in 2018. I wonder why you would just leave that out your post. So I'll help you out. In 2018, Sony said the PS2 has sold 155.1 million as if March 2012 (apparently they underreported the PS2 because they obviously meant 160?). Now all of a sudden they (Sony and Jim Ryan) are so interested in telling the world it was 160 all along. So maybe I need to help you understand it is a financial crime for Sony or anyone to lie on those financial reports and this is because a shareholders can't reasonably make a decision to invest in your publicly traded company if you are lying on the reports to begin with. I say that because its not illegal for a prior employee (Jim Ryan) to lie in a podcast so this is why people said maybe he isn't lying and just rounded up because Sony themselves never reported this. Sony now is posting it on their site, which im honestly not sure if that would be a crime but i imagine yes so Sony is likely not lying however Sony not adjusting the date is very questionable. 

You have yet again tried to tell me my feelings, care as much as I do? Nintendo doesn't care but Sony certainly does because they cared to make the change.

Edit: You didn't really answer the question, when will it surpass 160? Or are you still holding hope?

I didn't know Sony said 155m in 2018. If they really did say it was at 155m in 2018 then why  did we have outside parties saying it was at 160m or near it for years. Even vgchartz had it at 159m. Btw I only read these numbers from posters on vgchartz. I dont remember I ever saw it as low as 155m. Surely there must be reasons for them to think it could be above 160m. Maybe Sony they didn't bother adjusting the number since 2012 or 2013 when it was at 155m. As to your question will Switch surpasses the PS2 and when. I have no idea and I don't care. Seriously I don't know when Nintendo releases their next console and when Nintendo phasing out the switch. Currently it's at 140m so I think the minimum it will do is 150m and could go as high as 170m if Nintendo don't phase out the switch until 2030? 

Ok and I will gladly explain it all. Sony reported as of March 31, 2012 the PS2 had sold 155.1 million but the PS2 was discontinued in December 2012/January 2013 which means the PS2 has around 10 months (April 2012 - Jaunary 2013) of sales missing. So yes we have always known the PS2 sold more but we don't know how much.

The estimates are based on what we know about all the other consoles along with Sony giving us an overall total for all PS hardware up to PS4 during their 500 million systems sold achievement. So we know how many systems Sony sold up until 2018 and Sony even gave us figures for individual platforms including the PS2's 155.1 million. So we simply minus what we know for the other Sony platfroms. The PS2 can't be higher than 162 million or else we start to cut into the other platforms, that's why Vita is getting lowered because we keep getting up to date numbers on everthing else.

The PS2 sold 4.1 million in its second to last fiscal year (April 2011 to March 2012) and this took it too 155.1 million. So in order to hit 160, it would need to sell atleast 4.9 million or in other words be up in its final year with two less months. I will admit that isn't unreasonable for a platform to get a boost in its final year because its about to be discontinued but its rare. If any system did it though, even I would say PS2 lol. I also need to mention how Sony loves to give 10 million updates, so Sony literally has 10 million, 20 million, 30 million, etc all the way up to 150 million sales updates for PS2. Sony still does this with PS5, they never announced 160 million update for PS2. 

I think that covers everything and now we have Sony adjusting that 155.1 as of March 2012 to over 160 million as of March 2012.