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

johnsobas on 01 April 2008

i have a really hard time believing that anyone who bought the ps2 for the first time in the last year or 2 would be the same person interested in the ps3.



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alpha_dk on 01 April 2008
Sqrl said:
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 expose 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.


 I agree with Sqrl here.  Sony wants the PS2 to sell instead of the PS3 in the same way that Microsoft wants XP to sell instead of Vista.  It's better than people moving to Wii/360//OSX/Linux, but it doesn't further their business goals at all.



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Bitmap Frogs on 01 April 2008

The PS2 is one of the best consoles ever. It's game library is huge, deep even on niche genres - and most of that vast game catalogue is now available either at low prices or free. On top of it, the console itself is quite affordable. Shouldn't be surprising anyone.

To be honest, the PS2>PS3 transition is so playing like the NES>SNES transition it's past funny at this point.





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