When will the Switch pass 160M?

[Mummelmann]

Soundwave said:

EricHiggin said:

I asked about this in the Switch road to 160M thread. Didn't know these PS2 figures were known or that this chart existed.

The fact SW1 has been ahead of PS2, launches aligned, pretty much it's entire time on the market is pretty wild.

Props to Nin, whether or not SW1 get's close to, or passes 160M, either way it's a massive achievement no matter how you slice it.

Switch is cleary the better seller by a mile through its first 8 years, which IMO is more than long enough. PS2 just padded out a few more units due to being way cheaper and needing years and years extra, there's nothing impressive about that. 

Nintendo could have this record easily and do it years earlier if they really wanted it, they could just drop the price and the whole charade would be over. 

PS2 is the definition of "saved by the bell" in this case, it can't sell on pace with the Switch otherwise, it needs to be bailed out. 

Yeah, every time comparisons between the PS2 and other consoles are made, I'm struck by how backwards we are sometimes. It's not that other consoles have unexpectedly short lifespans; it's that the PS2 was an anomaly and had an unusually long lifespan. One of its most important factors was media capability paired with developing markets (Eastern-Europe and South-America chief among these), developing markets are typically a few years behind the curve, waiting for lower pricing and more, cheaper, content. 

Edit; there were more factors, of course, one being the global transition to the HD-era, which took its time and had subsequent (and running) costs tied to it.