The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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firebush03 said:

CourageTCD said:

I was about to post this. If anyone could explain me in which reasonable circustances Sony coul have pulled out more 5 miillions of PS2 after FY12, I would thank  them a lot. Was there a sudden demand for PS2s one year or two after FY12, during the end of the PS3's and begining of the PS4's lifecycle? Or Sony just kept pushing PS2 consoles years after FY12, with little YoY decrease in sales, and it gradually came to 160 million? None of these scenarios seem plausible, so that begs the question: Is 160.01 million plausible?

PS2 was selling around 5mil per fiscal year, and then they stopped reporting precise figures after March 2011. PS2 is discontinued in January 2013, meaning 5mil systems would have shipped over the last two fiscal years: this fits very well in-line with the trajectory of PS2.

As much as I’d like to call these numbers fake and declare Switch the leader, unfortunately this data of 160mil does not surprise me even slightly.

So PS2 does 1.8m in the last reported year (FY12) but somehow does average of 2.5m in each of the proceeding 2 years after that (well slightly less than 2 years) before being discontinued? What other consoles have done that?

 Also Sony didn’t report the supposed 160m total (even to shareholders from what I understand) even though it is a massive achievement for the highest selling console of all time? Doesn’t add up nor that plausible. What am I missing? Are the dates wrong and was it discontinued much later (much much later)?