Forum - View topicNEWS: Nintendo Switch Console Sales Reach 143.42 Million Worldwide
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Yuvelir
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They haven't beaten PS2's 155 million sales yet.
At this pace I don't know if they can beat PS2's 160 million sales. Maybe nobody will ever beat PS2's 170 million sales. |
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Megax36
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The fact that there are a LOT more gamers now than there was back in the early 00's makes me surprised that something hasn't already topped the PS2's numbers. As good of value as the PS2 offered, part of the reason for its high sales numbers was that there really wasn't any other good competition in the market during that generation. Sega pulled out early, Microsoft was an unknown in the console space, and Nintendo chose to go the kiddy route. PS2 was also the only system to offer backwards compatibility with prior generation games, and DVD playback straight out of the box.
What's even more admirable is that only a few of the popular IPs from PS1 actually carried over to PS2. PS2 managed to pull off the feat that it did mostly with it's own library of fresh IPs. |
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Schmavies
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I don't know if anything can really top old console sales because building PCs have become way cheaper for better performance, Steam, etc. Also this current middling generation of consoles (PS5 and Series X) doesn't really help with console sales overall.
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Yuvelir
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Cheapest/most convenient DVD player in the market pulled a lot of weight in such an age when your next best (legal) option for media was cable TV. Good starting position, mindshare throught he roof, got all the "hip" titles, quite affordable and pulled into the wider media-confusiming public with the right product at the right time, no wonder it went so well.
I wouldn't be surprised if that informed Nintendo's strategy with the Wii - the general public is much larger than the gaming audience. |
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Tenchi
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I'm still not buying a Switch until Nintendo comes out with one that's small enough to fit in a jacket or shirt pocket the way my Gameboy Advance or my DS Lite could. Like, I know the Switch Lite exists but it's still too big to be easily pocketable.
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Pokenatic
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It’s less of PC and more of mobile. PC comes off as way too intimidating for the large majority of gamers. That also partially explains the success of the Switch because of the portability of it (even though it’s big). |
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AiddonValentine
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It's going to beat the PS2's lifetime sales, it's just a matter of when. The question is by how much.
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joac101
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You might as well abandon Nintendo at this point (emulation aside) |
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ZelosZoidberg
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The PS2 numbers are a little misleading IMO. Yes they sold a bunch but I knew a lot of people bought it because it was a cheap (for the time) DVD player. It was a lousy one, but people can only afford so much. In terms of game and whatever free game digital currency sales I think the Switch will win out. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4548 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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The most recent Nintendo game-playing device I have is still the DS Lite I mentioned before (never got around to getting any variant of 3DS/2DS) so I already have effectively abandoned Nintendo. Truthfully, I was never really into the first party Nintendo franchises except for Golden Sun but I did enjoy playing third party games on Nintendo handhelds and I hate that the smartphone essentially killed the dedicated compact, pocket-sized handheld gaming system (aside from various bootleg ones with thousands of games pre-installed and maybe the Evercade Super Pocket). |
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Top Gun
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It's funny you say that, because I almost never take my Switch out of its dock. Only for the occasional trip to the throne, if I'm being honest. 
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enurtsol
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Sony still lists PS2 at 155 million https://sonyinteractive.com/en/our-company/business-data-sales/ Take whatever Jim Ryan says with a grain of salt, unless he can substantiate how he came out with those extra millions many years after Sony stopped production of the PS2. (Sony would never overproduce console production at the end of its life just in hopes of selling that overproduction over many years after. At best, most of those extra sales are refurbished units - meaning they're not new, but a resale of previously bought units) |
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