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Forums - Sales Discussion - The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

trunkswd 6 hours ago
javi741 said:

Finally we have at least true confirmation regarding the final sales figure range of the PS2. Sold over 160 Million but we know based on calculations of Sony's PS3/PS2 sales that it's less than 161.9 Million. Giving us a range between 160-161.9M the PS2 sold.

However, I don't think the PS2 exceeded 161 Million. If it did it seems like Sony would've said " Sold over 161 Million" like they did with their other consoles on the website but they didn't.

Some may say Sony was just rounding to 160 Million, but they didn't do that with their other consoles. For example, for the PS1 they didn't say "Sold over 100 Million" which would've made sense if they were rounding, but they didn't, they specifically rounded to the nearest millionth stating "sold over 102 Million". This makes be doubtful the PS2 sold over 161 Million cause if it did, they would've stayed consistent rounding to the nearest millionth like they did with their other consoles, but they didn't.

This narrows down the range to the PS2 selling somewhere between 160-160.99 Million. I'll personally consider the Switch to win if it reaches 161 Million.

I agree the PS2 is most likely between 160,000,001 and 160,999,999 units sold. We decided to put it at 160.01M on the Platform Totals page as they said over 160M. I wish they were as good as Nintendo and round their figures to the nearest 10K.



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kilik 6 hours ago

Switch needs 162+ to end the discussion. I'd say it has a 50/50 chance.



Fight-the-Streets 6 hours ago
trunkswd said:
javi741 said:

Finally we have at least true confirmation regarding the final sales figure range of the PS2. Sold over 160 Million but we know based on calculations of Sony's PS3/PS2 sales that it's less than 161.9 Million. Giving us a range between 160-161.9M the PS2 sold.

However, I don't think the PS2 exceeded 161 Million. If it did it seems like Sony would've said " Sold over 161 Million" like they did with their other consoles on the website but they didn't.

Some may say Sony was just rounding to 160 Million, but they didn't do that with their other consoles. For example, for the PS1 they didn't say "Sold over 100 Million" which would've made sense if they were rounding, but they didn't, they specifically rounded to the nearest millionth stating "sold over 102 Million". This makes be doubtful the PS2 sold over 161 Million cause if it did, they would've stayed consistent rounding to the nearest millionth like they did with their other consoles, but they didn't.

This narrows down the range to the PS2 selling somewhere between 160-160.99 Million. I'll personally consider the Switch to win if it reaches 161 Million.

I agree the PS2 is most likely between 160,000,001 and 160,999,999 units sold. We decided to put it at 160.01M on the Platform Totals page as they said over 160M. I wish they were as good as Nintendo and round their figures to the nearest 10K.

Interestingly, Sony doesn't mention numbers for PS Vita and PS VR (PS5 and PS VR2 are the current products, so they don't mention numbers there, makes sense). The only exception where the number doesn't fit is for the PSP where they mention "over 80 million" when it probably should be "over 82 million". But in the PSP's case the "over 80 million" number was mentioned in normal text size, not BIG like for PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4. Therefore, I fully agree, the definitive number for the PS2 is below 161 mil. When the Switch sells 161 mil it will be the definitive winner!



Torpoleon 5 hours ago

Good that we finally have official confirmation of over 160m for PS2. Like others have said, I'd consider 161m to be victory for the Switch. 15m to go. The race is on! I think they might just barely do it by 2027. Should easily be over 151m by the end of this year (Nintendo is probably hoping for 152m by the end of this year if they want to meet their revised forecast).