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Forums - Sales - The Forgotten Story -- The PS2's Continued Success

hunter_alien on 31 March 2008
NintendoMan said:
You make some interesting points. I still play my PS2 and see no reason to move up to the PS3.

 Same here ... and untill GoW3 comes out I dont intend to buy a PS3 :)



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Hawk on 31 March 2008
dumbo said:
FreeTalkLive said:
leo-j said:
Anyhow, its not true that ps2 owners will "likely" jump to a future playstation platform simply because most of the american ps2 owners jumped to the Xbox 360.

Right, so far, PS2 owners are moving to 360 and Wii. However, it is possible that as PS3 continues to pick up steam less and less PS2 owners will buy PS3s. So, a year from now, more American PS2 may be buying PS3s and Wiis instead of 360s and Wiis.

So, while the thread creators post was interesting, the conclusion is wrong :)


I'm not asking "to be annoying", but is there any evidence that 360/Wii owners previously owned a PS2?

Looking at the stats for NA:

- the xbox sold 16m, and I'd guess "nearly all of them" have upgraded?

- ditto the GC?

If both those groups upgraded, then that's 28/9m "consoles", add in new Wii users, and there's a huge market for an immediate upgrade, without even including PS2 owners?

I'd guess multiple console owners muddy the water, along with people who bought a GC/XB and then converted to PS2...


 Well, I for one have a GC and a PS2 from last gen.  This generation I decided to get Wii and Xbox 360.  I know I'm a multi console user, but I stick to two consoles a generation.  And I stayed with Nintendo for one, and for my second one went with the Xbox this time.



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Sqrl on 01 April 2008
Steve 3.2 said:

Every PS2 sold continues to be a 'win' for Sony. It generally delays that user from upgrading to any of the newer systems. And the longer that transition takes, the more likely that user will buy a Playstation product in the future. Not that there's anything wrong with that. ;)


I have to disagree with the idea that PS2 sales are a win for Sony. Their goal is to get Blu-ray into living rooms and build a new power base around the PS3. They surely don't mind the revenue the PS2 continues to produce, I won't debate that, but the PS3 is the future of their games division and they want it to be the big boy on the block not the PS2.

More to the point this idea that brand loyalty will suddenly kick in and dump PS2 owners by the truckload into the PS3 camp falls flat on its face when you simply look back at past generations. Nintendo would love it if brand loyalty was a major factor in a console purchase, but if you look back at the PS1 VS N64 (to cite one example) you will see it didn't help them much then. If it had, there might not even be a Sony Gaming Division today.

The PS2 will likely keep selling until major stores begin removing software to make room for current gen software. At that point its exposure drops considerably and sales will decline from there. To a certain extent this is a good thing for Sony as it will mean they can focus on building a PS3 empire.



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Squilliam on 01 April 2008

How many of these sales are just to replace broken consoles? I've bought the PS2 4 times! It can't be as active as people say it is, because the software sales just aren't there.



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Rock_on_2008 on 01 April 2008

a lot of people stay a console generation behind so u can get cheap console and lots of cheap games.



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smbu2000 on 01 April 2008

The PS2 has a great back catalog of really good games(that are pretty much cheap/reasonably priced) and the system itself is priced very low. Of course, sales are still going to be going strong.

Last gen. I was a PS2 (and for a little bit Dreamcast) owner and early last year I bought a 360 and shortly after that I bought a Wii. I have no plans at the moment to get a PS3, though maybe sometime in the future if its cheap and has games I want (full BC would be nice too)




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Naum on 01 April 2008

Still play my PS2

I have PS3 but that one is just for bluray movies for now



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ironmanDX on 01 April 2008

I still play my ps2 sometimes......... but too few titles are coming out for it, probably because Sony wants the Ps3 as their next big thing.



Hawk on 01 April 2008
Squilliam said:
How many of these sales are just to replace broken consoles? I've bought the PS2 4 times! It can't be as active as people say it is, because the software sales just aren't there.

 I've always wondered that myself.  I'm on my fourth PS2 as well



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Garcian Smith on 01 April 2008

What's up with these people who've bought 4 PS2s? I bought mine used (an old, dusty "fat" PS2) over two years ago, and it's got pretty constant use. Maybe I just got lucky and managed to snag one of the later revisions?



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