| Soundwave said: PS2's status as the "most popular console" is bullshit, largely, how can you can be the most "popular console" when another console has outsold you head to head for 8 years straight (lmao) and is *years* ahead in sales pace? The Switch is kicking the PS2's ass every year it gets to go head to head and that continues right to this day. Again this is like having two athletes, lets say two home run hitters, Player A (Switch) has outhit Player B (PS2) head to head in their prime years every year head to head. Not a single season has Player B managed to out hit Player A. Now Player A may retire after 10 years not because he can't keep playing, but because he wants to go home and be with his family. So Player B needs several extra years to catch up to Player A's pace. Player B (PS2) is no freaking way the better home run hitter in that case. No one would consider him so in the world of sports. The only reason the Switch 1 is not going to rout the PS2 is because Nintendo may call off the dogs and not give it a chance, but it's kicked the PS2's ass every year in sales. That's not "sour grapes" or "making excuses!!!", that's the facts. If the Switch 1 was allowed to sell through 2031, which would be the equivalent of how long the PS2 was allowed to sell it would cross 170 million+ easy, everyone knows that. This is not even factoring in that Switch 1 has no price drops and even has a price increase. PS2 wouldn't even have sold 130 million in that case, it relied heavily on being massively discounted to sell those last few years. |
I’m not trying to be mean or anything, but it really is not that serious. Regardless of whether of not Switch hits some arbitrary 160.63mil figure, it still stands that the system was a massive hit on par (at least as far as hardware units shipped is concerned) with PS2, and arguably is the most successful video game system of all time by literally every other metric.
Last edited by firebush03 - on 05 November 2025
