The PS2 was sold at 69€99 at the end of its life lmao 

$99 PS2 was competing with $49 Gamecube and $149 Xbox. Good times. 

But those 3 cheap consoles combined could only barely top 200m.

I don't have the market of united states in my mind...

Anywise, it has outsold it there... 

Yeah.

They have s chance with Nintendo switch lite, especially in emerging markets. 

However, it's price has to drop to 3dsxl levels.

It's a bit expensive for how old it is and lacking the home console capabilities of it s cousins. 

Switch could easily sell another 7m imo.
Nintendo just need to make sure they produce them, and then sell them at breakeven point or slight loss.

Like OP, I think the Marketing for hitting 160m, would be worth abit of a loss on hardware.
And again, these new adopters looking for a aged cheap system, might also at some point move on to the switch2 at some point.
It builds fan base, getting gaming into the hands of those least well off.

Error. 

Exactly!Thank you for the meeting of minds. 😅

As aforesaid, they can just make it with a 3dsxl priced Nintendo Switch lite,without even taking a loss, but not making a profit on hardware either perhaps. Tomodachi life is on the way... 

Ram cost has raised though, we can't estimate how much does it cost to produce the lite form.

Polygon last year even made a whole article about the goal of surpassing ps2 sales. 

Could Nintendo have produced already 160m + units?

2027 is the 10th year, so 2026 is the last chance.

Ns2 is backwards compatible and probably they will have released by then a handheld only form of it...

It will be shocking Nintendo pulling the plug this year. 

Good point, it's amazing if you think about it.

PS2 managed to sell +160M in a market that could barely surpassed 200M consoles.

Same goes for PS1, +100M in a market of ~150M.

Imho, much more impressive than "theoretical" Switch 160M in a market of +300M (Switch+PS5+Series) consoles.

It was very achievable for them, but unfortunately they were satified just keeping the Switch afloat from late 2023 till the NS2 release instead of trying to push out the last bit of sales with bundles etc. and honestly I think that was a misstep because the price difference ended up so big that most of the people that could have been convinced to nap a Switch 1 in its last years aren't the same that are likely to go out and pay 50+ % more for the NS2 now. And now the NS1 is less appealing because it has that successor so it's harder to do now even if they wanted to. Ofc it's pennies to them anyways in the big picture, but I do think it would been more helpful than not to push for 160m whether it was to beat PS2 or not, especially now that hardware is getting even more expensive to produce.

Doesnt matter. This is not important to the average consumer.