The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[firebush03]

nismo_33 said:

firebush03 said:

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)?

Correction: PS2 did >1.8mil in FY’12. That figure was likely closer to 3-4mil, though Sony (for whatever reason) chose not to be super precise. I don’t view this as incriminating nor evidence of anything conclusive, and to suggest otherwise just sounds like cope for if Switch doesn’t reach 160mil.