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TWRoO on 06 March 2009
Sharky54 said:
I read somewhere sony said it sold about 130 million PS1s before they stopped selling it. Last major numbers showed the PS2 at 140 million. Even still 25 million more PS2s sold is good. I still think most PS1 owners went out and bought a PS2. N64 owners bought the gamecube, and Saturn owners bought the xbox after sega went to software.

The PS1 sold 102.5 million.... when the PS2 released (in Japan) it was only at 73 million... and 80 million when the PS2 had been released in all 3 major regions.... it then took 4 years to sell the remainging 22 million.


And about your bolded part.... That was a mistaken quote by Sony, they claimed 140 million back in April 2008 when their fiscal reports said otherwise... they hadn't even made 140 million at the time. As of now... like I said in my first reply... the PS2 has shipped about 135 million.

 



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Sharky54 on 06 March 2009

Im saying total sales. Those people who bought the PS1 while the PS2 was out are the same people now who buy the PS2 when the PS3 is out. The people who don't have much money and go for the cheapest newish console.



TWRoO on 06 March 2009
Sharky54 said:
Im saying total sales. Those people who bought the PS1 while the PS2 was out are the same people now who buy the PS2 when the PS3 is out. The people who don't have much money and go for the cheapest newish console.

Yes...the total sales of the PS1 were 102.5 million.

The people buying the PS2 now are not (well not many of them) going to be buying the PS3 in the future. because in 3-4 years time when they want a new console the PS3 is still probably going to cost $200 at least, and also won't be particularly desirable because it will have remained the lower selling of the consoles through most of that time. It will do better than the GC did for sure (it is after all to pass the GC in sales in a month or so) but it is not the desirable console that the PS1 and 2 were... we can see that by looking at it's sales now.

 



Words Of Wisdom on 06 March 2009
TWRoO said:
superchunk said:
TWRoO said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
So can we have a show of hands to see who here actually believes that every Playstation and Playstation 2 sale was to a "new user."

Gonna have to explain that one, not quite sure what you are saying.

 

Raise your hand if you think every PSx and PS2 user was a brand new purchaser of a PSx or PS2 (i.e. they were not replacing older/broken PSx or PS2)

Keep your hand down if you think quite a few PSx and PS2 sales were do to people having to rebuy their PSx or PS2 because their first one either broke or they wanted the slim version.

 

Ahh yes... I was thinking he was using "new user" to mean someone who hadn't bought a game before like I was using "new gamer" in my previous post.

Pretty much.  Sorry for the confusion.