Would You Consider Nintendo Switch The Most Commercially Successful Gaming Hardware Of All Time?

[MadDogg]

Chrkeller said:

MadDogg said:

I feel like only people not old enough to remember the ps2 era think the dvd argument has no merit. 

the world was switching from VHS to dvd. It was an amazing leap. And Sony owned the tech. And was able to add it to the ps2. We will never see an advantage like that again. It’d be like if Sony had a monopoly on streaming nowadays. It was crazy. 

I don’t know what evidence you want. But our parents had 2 ps2s in the house. Ps slims they got for 99 dollars as it was cheaper than standard alone dvd players. They owned zero games. 

a big part of ps2 being mainstream was that people bought it as a dvd player. That doesn’t make the gaming system any less amazing though. Ps2 was it. No other system has caught the zeitgeist that much since imo. 

I have been gaming since the NES, thus plenty old.

Evidence would be an article.  What your household did is irrelevant.

Like did the ps2 have a low attach ratio?  Nope, it have a higher attachment ratio than the GameCube.  Did the ps2 sells a low volume of games?  Nope.  It sold billions of software.  Was the ps2 the only system that played DVDs, giving it a huge unique advantage?  Nope, the OG xbox played DVDs.  Was the ps2 massively cheaper than DVD players?  Nope.  

All the evidence points to the DVD argument being silly and nonsensical.  Which is why I will ask, yet again, do you have evidence?

So let is be honest.  The ps2 smoked the GC and was a wild success.  That hurt the feelings of Nintendo fans, and they made up a BS reason back in the day and thus a myth was born. 

I mean, can I just arbitrarily say the S1 isn't a success because of the covid bump?  And when someone wants evidence i will say they are too young and I got one for my daughter?  Lol.  

Apologies, given your writing style you could see how I could mistake you for a teenager  

anyways  here’s an article regarding the impact of dvd on ps2 if that’s what you want for evidence - spoiler alert - I’m willing to bet you’ll move the goalposts!  https://www.denofgeek.com/games/ps2-best-selling-console-ever-record-history-explained/

And I think you’re confusing my post for saying something it wasn’t  I’m not weighing in on what the most successful console is or whatever  

simply commenting that saying ps2’s dvd player wasn’t a monumental advantage and impacted its sales is rewriting history  

  Hope your daughter likes her switch!  My daughter loves her switch lite and my son loves his ps5 

cheers!