How did a package like this end up moving 150 million units in it's lifetime?

How did a package like this end up moving 150 million units in it's lifetime?

by having good games

real question is how the fuck did the PS4 manage to sell as well as it did

That box is sexy as fuck the hell you talking about?

It had a fucking DVD player, and the aesthetic of the box emphasizes it.

how much volume would 150 million boxed PS2s be

By being a DVD player

Cause the games are sick and they don't have DLC or season passes

Best multiplat console combined with Sony exclusives. (Xbone was underpowered and came with kinect). Also released earlier.

By being the greatest console ever made.

This.
To some degree same thing for the PS3. Why waste a shit ton of money on a Blu ray/DVD player when you can get one that also plays games?

If you're talking about the design then you're a dum dum. The packaging was great then and it still holds up now.

PS1, 1994.
PS2, 2000.
PS3, 2006.
PS4, 2013.

PS1 was CD player and video game machine. PS2 was a DVD player and video game machine. PS3 is/was a Bluray player and video game machine. PS4 has no real identity besides remasters. Looking at the PS2 era, there was no Netflix/Smartphone/Facebook browser game mega pack, it being a viable DVD player and video game machine was no-brainer. Fast forward to the PS4, where there are tons of casual games without having to buy a console and tons of devices that play Netflix (again without having to buy a console), you aren't going to see either Switch, PS4, or Xbox One hit PS2 numbers of 150 million.

Especially when the PS4 and Xbox One are 4 years old and going to hit their 5th year in 2018. The average console life cycle is 6 years. PS2 was the Wii of it's day, can't replicate those same conditions. I mean, see how hard Nintendo tried to make it happen again with the Wii U; those people left long ago. The PS4 and Xbox One mostly were outdoing the PS3/360 early hardware sales because it was SEVEN YEARS before new consoles came out so nearly a decade before new consoles came out. That excitement is fizzling out and the people who already own a PS4/X1 aren't gonna rush out to buy second units, they're also not gonna marathon run with their weak ass processors and their sub 1080p games (both consoles do this now all the time) in 2018+. PC gaming is also another force to content with, with PC taking a lot of PS4 exclusives because Sony designed the PS4 to be super easy to port to. It's an open secret that Sony's crazy Ken designed the PS2 and PS3 specifically to be obtuse to program for to prevent ports leaving to other platforms.

any answer other than piracy is just wrong
PS2 is probably the easiest system ever to pirate games for.

DUDE TEKKEN TAG LMAO

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>What is the Dreamcast

That box was fucking amazing, what are you talking about?

I guess you're too young to remember

The PlayStation was so goddamn amazing that even saying "PlayStation 2" seemed mythical. That box says everything. I doesn't need to show off what the console looks like, it's the goddamn sequel to the PSX. I didn't even know about the DVD thing until after I got it for Christmas.

>Lots of exclusives
>Lots of multiplats
>Dvd player
>Out first
>Competitively price
>Full backwards compatibility
What more do you want? Also the hardware shit out on a lot of people for bonus 2nd/3rd sales

This. I have never ever met anyone who actually bought official games for PS1 and PS2.

where do you live? Detroit? Peru?

Probably the best game library to ever hit a console, only rivaled by the PSX for which it was mostly backwards compatible.

>It's an open secret that Sony's crazy Ken designed the PS2 and PS3 specifically to be obtuse to program for to prevent ports leaving to other platforms.

So why are people so down on Nintendo for employing practices like this? Sounds like Sony was never any different

even with all memes,people will play ps4 for multiplants and some exclusives.
xbox one is garbage and WIIU was always a weird console.

By being sold for cheap to third world countries from 2006-2010.

It's by far the platform with the highest sales in third world countries with 25 million.
The DS only got 12.5 million in the third world

This.

The sheer fucking hype of a successor to the PS1 was enough to move initial sales. The stellar library of games coming out over it's lifetime kept it going.

>That excitement is fizzling out and the people who already own a PS4/X1 aren't gonna rush out to buy second units
Adding to that, 6th gen had PS2s with disc read errors, 7th gen had YLoD on PS3s and 360s had RRoD that made people buy replacements to their dead consoles.
This gen might be the first in a long while without any hardware faults between Sony, MS, and Nintendo so it's unlikely we'll ever see sales as high as before for that reason alone.

Kinda funny how that's true. I know I got robbed hard on my PS2 disc drive dying and having to repurchase another one. The remaster gen consoles PS4 and Xbox One are kinda unnecessarily big, look how big the original Xbox One is; all of them were deathly afraid of Red Ring of Death bad PR and lawsuit so they overcompensated the size of the consoles. Which is good for the consumer as less shitty technical hardware failures.

This is unrelated but everyone talking about 3rd world country sales and what-not, Sony more than Nintendo, made an absolute killing selling memory card and other PS2 peripherals like the network and hard drives. You won't see 8MB memory cards for 35 dollars ag---Vita bawhahahahha.

Non hardware methods didn't show up until late during its life time. Before that you'd need to chip it, so piracy was rampant in the third world but not the first world.

The Dreamcast, however, could play pirated discs since day one without having to mod it. This resulted in rampant piracy even in the first world. I have a friend that never in his life pirated anything, but then figured it was way too easy to burn Soul Calibur on a CD-R.

People who rant about rampant piracy being easy and killing DC are underages who don't remember how slow the internet was then. CD writers were expensive, yet alone DVD for PS2. Bootleg shops selling cd/dvds existed but they weren't even comparable to dling shit like now.

ps2 was riding off the success of the ps1. ps2 is such a dumb name but its genius from a marketing perspective. its basically the sequel to the most successful console of all time (at that point).

How did a package like this not end up moving 150 million units in it's lifetime?

Everyone didn't need a CD drive, or fast internet to take advantage of piracy on Dreamcast. You just found the guy at your school that had a binder full of burned Dreamcast games for sale at $5 each.