To be fair it was like that for most people before launch. Most people (including me) predicted the Switch would sell between 30-50M before launch with a good amount of people expecting GC or even horrific Wii U numbers again with the Switch.

There were a decent amount of more optimistic predictions though expecting 3DS numbers around 70 Million. But even the most optimistic predictions had the Switch barely reaching/surpassing Wii's 100M as virtually no one, even Nintendo, expected the Switch to reach PS2 numbers. Even Nintendo only forecasted the Switch to sell around 100M lifetime, and many people thought that 100M forecast was WAY TO optimistic.

I'll admit if someone told me before launch that the Switch would go on to outsell the PS2 I would've disregarded them as a troll or completely delusional, but here we are.

It's still impressive to me that the Switch not only outsold the Wii, but completely easily blew past it with so much momentum left. The Wii in its prime felt so huge like everyone had one and the hype surrounding it even to this day felt huge, it almost feels like the Wii as successful as it was sold more than it actually did.

If the Switch ends up at a nice even 160 million (still think it'll fall some 5 million short), what are the odds Sony pulls a James Cameron and releases a couple of million units of a "PS2 Legendary Edition" or something?

If they do I feel like the PS2 Legendary would be counted as a different console (like the Mini NES and the Mini SNES). If they release a PS2 Legendary, would they revamp it? Or just reproduce old units?

I'd argue it would have to be done with the Emotion Engine or at least have full console capabilities not to count as a Mini console-like, which might be more of an ask but still doable since Sony owns the patents/licenses for most of their earlier hardware + the optical media.

I don't think it's worth the effort for Sony. I can't imagine they will be THAT butthurt because they are no longer No 1. 

Probably not. It's not like Sony actually uses anything PS2 let alone sales numbers for brand marketing these days. If that was the case instead it could have happened, but only us internet nerds really pay any mind to this stuff.

To be fair, you were far from the only one.

@Chrkeller Here's a little compilation of other persons who were expecting much lower sales

Importing the Wall of Shame from the Switch prediction thread

Yeah, about that...

A lot lot more in fact

What shrooms ;)

A bunch of lowballers...

And some who were expecting something more akin of the Wii U, especially the last one...

So what do you think about your prediction now?

For the record, mine (from my old account) was more realistic but I was still lowballing in the end:

Mid-gen uprade? Kinda.

Plethora of different versions? Also kinda.

Also, I expected the (not-yet-announced by that date) Lite to do much better at the end of the Switch's lifespan than it finally did irl.

Yes I believe the Switch will suprass the PS2. The main reason for this is like the PS2 the switch has been going on further into the next decade.