{"id":13977,"date":"2024-04-03T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/pushing-buttons-when-we-dont-know-the-true-sales-figures-for-consoles-players-lose-out\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:37:14","slug":"pushing-buttons-when-we-dont-know-the-true-sales-figures-for-consoles-players-lose-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/pushing-buttons-when-we-dont-know-the-true-sales-figures-for-consoles-players-lose-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: When we don\u2019t know the true sales figures for consoles, players lose out"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: Fastest-selling, highest gross revenue \u2026 the biggest gaming companies have long employed untrustworthy metrics to hype up their products, and it\u2019s the consumer who always suffers<\/p>\n

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The outgoing boss of Sony\u2019s games division, Jim Ryan, who joined the company a few months before the launch of the original PlayStation, was interviewed by the official PlayStation podcast<\/a> last week to mark his retirement. He talked up the PlayStation 5 as potentially Sony\u2019s \u201cmost successful ever console across multiple vectors\u201d \u2013 interestingly, he did not specify what those vectors actually were. Time spent playing? Individual player spend? Sales? It would have to go some to beat the PlayStation 2\u2019s total of 160m \u2013 so far it\u2019s sold about 55m.<\/p>\n

As for that PlayStation 2 total: that\u2019s actually the first time we\u2019ve heard it, in this podcast, in 2024, despite the fact that the PS2 was discontinued in 2013<\/a>. The last official number we had for the PS2 was \u201cmore than 155m\u201d as of March 2012, a number that\u2019s still quoted on Sony\u2019s own website<\/a>. Ryan claims that 160m was celebrated as an internal sales milestone, but Sony never actually announced it. Industry analyst Daniel Ahmad did some back-of-an-envelope maths<\/a> that substantiates the total, but it begs the question: why did Sony never actually tell anyone how many PS2s it sold?<\/p>\n

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\nIn this week\u2019s newsletter: Fastest-selling, highest gross revenue \u2026 the biggest gaming companies have long employed untrustworthy metrics to hype up their products, and it\u2019s the consumer who always suffers
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\nThe outgoing boss of Sony\u2019s games division, Jim Ryan, who joined the company a few months before the launch of the original PlayStation, was interviewed by the official PlayStation podcast last week to mark his retirement. He talked up the PlayStation 5 as potentially Sony\u2019s \u201cmost successful ever console across multiple vectors\u201d \u2013 interestingly, he did not specify what those vectors actually were. Time spent playing? Individual player spend? Sales? It would have to go some to beat the PlayStation 2\u2019s total of 160m \u2013 so far it\u2019s sold about 55m.
\nAs for that PlayStation 2 total: that\u2019s actually the first time we\u2019ve heard it, in this podcast, in 2024, despite the fact that the PS2 was discontinued in 2013. The last official number we had for the PS2 was \u201cmore than 155m\u201d as of March 2012, a number that\u2019s still quoted on Sony\u2019s own website. Ryan claims that 160m was celebrated as an internal sales milestone, but Sony never actually announced it. Industry analyst Daniel Ahmad did some back-of-an-envelope maths that substantiates the total, but it begs the question: why did Sony never actually tell anyone how many PS2s it sold? Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: Fastest-selling, highest gross revenue \u2026 the biggest gaming companies have long employed untrustworthy metrics to hype up their products, and it\u2019s the consumer who always suffers \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The outgoing boss of Sony\u2019s games division, Jim Ryan, who joined the company …<\/p>\n

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