javi741 said:
You could also use the argument that the PS2 was dirty cheaper for the 2nd half of its life at only 100$, which is a huge reason why it got to 160 Million, it was impulse buy cheap and its immediate successor had a disastrous launch priced at 600$ which is equivalent to 1000$ in 2025 inflation, so that forced many more potential consumers to buy the cheaper PS2. The Switch didn't have any of those advantages, not only stayed at 300-350$ for the entirety of its life, the price would actually RISE during the time period where consoles would need a price cut the most which is towards the end of its lifecycle. This makes the Switch 1 not impulse buy cheap and has less of an advantage in that area, so despite that people still purchased it as much as the dirt cheap PS2 which is highly impressive and truly shows just how much stronger the appeal is for the Switch. |
Then again ps2 also didnt have the social media advantage.
Nor the covid advantage.
Also it didnt had a cheaper handheld only mode that people count as a " switch" sale even thou its a deticated handheld and it cant" switch"
And before you give the argument of" but it plays all the switch games"
So did the ps2 play all the ps1 games
The switch in todays time is " dirt cheap" its 299 against 550 ps5.
Its a verry easy impulse buy if you low on money. Or have a family
What i mean to say is verry simple,they both had some advantage of why they sold crazy amount of units.
