| archbrix said: I absolutely do think that Sony went into defense mode over the PS2's record when Switch crossed the 150m mark and this latest change to Sony's business data page pretty much confirms that. The "more than 160.0m" that was listed previously was subject to many of us concluding that it did not sell 100k more, but now it has been changed to eliminate what little accuracy was present for a far more ambiguous "somewhere over 160m". Why change it at all then unless it was simply to mask that all that is needed to top it is 100k more? Or, to instead confirm that it did indeed exceed 160.1m, which Sony did not do. And I agree that it is suspicious that Sony would not have announced that it crossed the 160m mark over a decade ago, but it still remains possible when we look at the PS3's total produced vs total sold. But just barely. The PS3's final manufactured number is: 88,159,116 units...
... and we know that the console actually shipped/sold 87.4m. That is a difference of around 759k units that did not make retail. Looking at the PS2's final produced number at 160,636,885 units...
... that would mean that no more than 636,884 units didn't make it to retail in order for it to be "more than 160m", which is possible, I suppose. But the idea that it could have reached 100k over 160m for shipped/sold units is just completely unbelievable now. This is why I do hope that the Switch does beat the record that the PS2 holds currently; not because I'm a Nintendo fan, not just because this is likely the only shot left in my lifetime to see it broken, and it's not as if I dislike the PS2 at all... but because of Sony's complete lack of transparency regarding the console's sales. If Sony didn't resort to lumping shipment numbers together to hide lacking sales in the first place then we wouldn't have to rely on its ex-executives to set the record straight. Seriously, it seems like Shawn Layden has confirmed more playstation numbers in the last few years than Sony itself. Props to him, I guess. |
So Nintendo needs to do 160,636,886 to be in first. Another 4.05 million
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