According to global hardware chart.  They sold over 4 million PS4s worldwide in 2017s Jan/feb.  I think they should easily surpass the 79M shipment projection.  

That is just because you are being stubborn.

The point we are making is that Sony wouldn't have been able to sell more PS2 even if they launched global because their manufacturing capability was limited to what they were making and that was just enough to meet Japan demand.

Same way Wii and Switch if launched to more countries (or less) wouldn't change the first 6 months of sales since they were totally sold out for all those months.

The supposition of "they would make more if launching in more countries" is illogical since they want to sell as much as they can, so they will produce as much as is viable, and if they didn't produce more/released in more countries was because that wasn't viable.

Keeping a no more than 10M until the end of gen may be feasible, but PS4 would need some magic to reach 150M until discontinued =]

What we suppose PS2 did was expand to the Others market at the end of life when it was 100-150 USD, but PS4 is doing that sales on Others from the off-set... but sure I would be happy with they hitting 150M.

Sure. Sony couldn't launch globally with the PS2 because their manufacturing capabilities were limited. This in turn meant that the PS2 was only available in Japan for its first 9 months, which in turn is the reason why the PS4 is ahead. Does that change anything of what I've said? Or what Shadow has said for that matter?

Sigh..... ok. I'll try this one more time. I'll use bullet points.

• Sony launched PS2  in Japan in March 2000 and then everywhere else in December 2000.
• in the 9 months between territory launches they only managed to make and ship 3M+ consoles. 
• for their global launch they added another 3M consoles to the fray (and funny enough cut shipments to Japan)
• This means that even if they launched globally, in that 9 month period. They would have still only shipped ~6M consoles. 

Intrisic explained it all. Also Sony themselves still consider PS4 to be ahead of PS2 when talking about speed of sales.

You can't sell what you can't make.

And about the logistic Intrisic mentioned... he just missed one detail, launching on only one market and being the one close to the factory and that have brand recognition also meant less cost for transportation/warehousing and less marketing expended at the release.

Unless you can give another reason on why Sony would be idiotic and hold from releasing WW and avoid making money you don't have much ground. Or are you just keep the "they couldn't sell more anyway, but I'll keep deflecting to it because it sustain my argument"?

I agree. Wii's legs were bad.

I just hope Sony provides a way to keep the momentum by adding another hardware to the family like a PS4 Portable or Tablet. I would definitely by that even if it's less powerful than PS4.

I don't get why you're saying this because I've never claimed otherwise. Heck, it's right there in the post you quoted - "Sony couldn't launch globally with the PS2 because their manufacturing capalities were limited. This in turn meant that the PS2 was only available in Japan for its first 9 months, which in turn is the reason the PS4 is ahead."

You are literally just repeating the point I said in my post, while somehow making it out like my post is wrong. I find it a bit baffling really.

The whole launches aligned thing shows that the PS2 sold a loooot faster in Japan, quite a bit faster in the US, and a little bit slower in Europe and the rest of the world. Due to the different manufacturing situation back then (which, again, is the reason thath the PS4 was only available in Japan in the start, as we both agree on), it's a little quirk of statistics that the PS4 is ahead when you align the first date of availability, yet behind in the individual markets.

Odds are that they will ship more than 2M though, thus exceeding their forecast.