PS2 to dominate PS3 in 2007
Despite Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony all having released their new games consoles, analysts surprisingly still back the PS2 to sell more than any other console in 2007 according to a report on businessweek.com.
In reference to the year ahead, Chief operating officer at Sega, Simon Jeffrey, speculates that the PS2 "probably has the capacity to sell more than any other gaming console", touting it to even outsell the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.
Pachter, an analyst at LA-based Wedbush Morgan Securities says: "The PS2 will have legs well into 2008", which is testament to the success of the console considering its competitors, the GameCube and Xbox consoles, have seemingly already died a sudden death.
We would speculate that the PS2's capacity to outsell it successor could partly be attributed to the limited availability of the PS3, with the same article reporting that, according to rating agency, Standard and Poor's, Sony will ship around 11 million PS2s compared to 7 million PS3s in the year commencing April 2007.
And with the fairly hefty price tag attached to the PS3, it is not yet going to appeal to the mighty mainstream audience that the comparatively cheap PS2 does.
