The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[xl-klaudkil]

Soundwave said:

xl-klaudkil said:

Ps2 doesnt deserve to be called the nr1 console?

Ps2 had a pacman lead over xbox/dc/ngc combined.

Ps2 didnt had a "handheld only"version that somehow still counts as a switch sale.

It has one of the largest gaming library ever full of incredible games.

Ps2 whas not released in a industrie that is as huge as it is now.

It took gaming to the next level.

Don't be so buthurt that the switch may or may not outsell it.

If you need an extra 3 years of tacked on sales because your successor platform (the PS3) has terrible sales to me no I don't view it as any kind of huge accomplishment. 

Everyone and their grandma knows if Nintendo went on to sell the Switch 1 for 3 more years especially at a discounted price, it would rip the PS2 to shreds. The DS would have done the same.

Both of those systems hit 150 million way faster than the PS2 did, DS was simply not allowed to get to 160 million, not because it couldn't do it, but because Nintendo wanted to shift to the 3DS. 

The main differentiator then isn't that one platform is actually more popular, it's just that the PS3 had such dog shit sales out of the gate. 

Pointing that out isn't sour grapes, it's stating the factual obvious that for whatever reason a bunch of people don't want to admit. 

By your logic,.ps2 could have reached 200mill if sony just kept selling the console for a phew more years and did a pricecut.

By your logic the switch needed a cheaper handheld only version to reach even 150(without the handheld onlt version switch wouldnt even come close to the ps2)

Nobody is saying the switch isnt a massive succes, if it outsells a 25 year old system or not.

What does it matter, does all of a sudden people  say" wow switch outsold the ps2 it now sucks!" Noo they wont, ps2 will still be remembered as (one of) the greatest console of all time.

 And so will the switch( highly doubt most switches will still work in  25years but still)⁹

They are both kings of consoles.

Last edited by xl-klaudkil - on 12 May 2025