Will the Nintendo Switch ever surpass the sales of the PlayStation 2? Not according to Sony, who keeps “finding” millions of new sales for the console. “They can’t keep getting away with this,” one man was quoted as saying. Watch NintendoPro’s full special report now.
Breaking News – Sony today announced they’ve discovered lost sales figures for the PlayStation 2, adding countless millions more sold units than previously known for decades. The number is so large that no Nintendo console could ever match it. The Japanese console maker provided no real evidence, but promised that the Nintendo Switch could never match this illusive newly “found” figure.
“The PlayStation 2 basically sold the Nintendo Switch lifetime sales +1. And you guys know I wouldn’t lie, so you can use me as your fact checker.”
Jim Ryan
Ryan was later interviewed by IGN, who gave the former CEO of PlayStation a big hug. “It was a great hug,” Ryan recollected. “I know I can count on IGN to get the narrative right.”
This parody was based on the following “real” news article per NintendoLife:
“The Switch has smashed all sorts of records but one thing it hasn’t done just yet is surpassed the lifetime sales of the PlayStation 2. While it was assumed at one point the hybrid system only needed to shift another 15 million units to surpass this milestone, PlayStation’s ex-CEO Jim Ryan burst this bubble earlier this year, claiming the PS2’s lifetime sales were recorded as 160 million units.
Now, in an official update on PlayStation’s 30th anniversary website, Sony has officially confirmed the system has sold “over” 160 million units since the year 2000: “PS2 is one of the biggest-selling video game consoles of all time, with over 160,000,000 consoles sold worldwide since 2000.” What does this mean for the Switch then? Well, according to the latest financial update at the beginning of this month, Nintendo’s current-generation system has now sold more than 146 million units worldwide.
The catch is the Switch “successor” is on the horizon and Nintendo has also recently lowered its hardware forecast. Of course, Nintendo does already have a loaded release schedule for 2025 – with games like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Pokémon Legends: Z-A and the return of titles such as Xenoblade Chronicles X, so it seems like there’s still a fair bit of mileage in the current system before the successor arrives.”