| XtremeBG said: PS2 for sure shipped and sold more than that 155.1M as of March 2012, since it was discontinued in January 2013. So 100% the final number is over 155.1M. So 155.1M is not true or accurate too. And some people doubt it shipped 4.9M in it's last Fiscal Year, while shipping 4.1M in the previous one. However here are some points: 1) PS2 was still selling well and in normal conditions Sony would continue to sell it at least for two more years since when you are stop producing system when it's last year sales is more than 4M ? (for doubters if you want put it at 2M it is still a big number to cut the production and sales off, we have systems selling until year of 100k units. So 1, 2 or 4M is too much for them to stop selling it) because of that they would normally continue to sell it for at least 2 more years till 2015. 2) I am not sure if it was confirmed officially or not officially but back then it was known that they shifted the production from the PS2 to PS4 and because of that, this was the main reason they cut the PS2 legs short (although they were the longest of all, they could still be 2 years longer as I mentioned in point 1. 3) Because of the previous 2 points, Sony knew that the interest for the system is still relatively big and so it's logical they would want to produce, ship and eventually sell more than normal amount of units after a year of 4.1M. So if they weren't in a hurry to stop the production they may continue the year with something like 3M shipped units, and do 2M for the next fiscal year ending in March of 2014 and at least 1M more for fiscal year ending in March of 2015. However because they had to cut the production of the PS2 because of the PS4, they may wanted to compensate somehow for this by producing and shipping more than they would otherwise for that particular fiscal year. So in the normal case they could ship for example 3M and 3M more for the next 2 fiscal years, but they did 2M extras so that there is enough amount of units to sell for the 2014 year as well, not only 2013. |
155,1 million was the figure Sony gave for march 31, 2012. In 2019 they changed it to "over 155 million". And in 2024 tgey changed it again to "over 160 million as of march 2012." As a logical thinking person i really don't buy that. If they said march 2013 we could talk but not in 2012. I am really sorry my kind friend, but that really does not add up.
As you saw I did an interesting calculation and the strange thing was, using the official numbers we had, i subtracted it from our 525,3 million figure from Sony and got exactly to 155,1 million. I mean thats no coincidene?!
What confirmed the truth of that was the fact I was attacked by a member with some childish picture in a quite unpolite manner. Maybe he has personal problems... but maybe we can talk it out... i mean we are not at war here🤣😂
