PS4 Could Very Well Become The Best-Selling Console In History

There was a common refrain around the PS4 launch. Sure, it shattered launch records, everyone said, but there was no way that Sony's new machine could ever outsell the indomitable PS2. The PS2 was a product of its time, they said, and there was no way any one machine could capture the complete attention of the video game world ever again -- we have smartphones now, after all, and, I mean, 155 million units. It just seems unreal. I'll cop to saying pretty much that, and more, but the past few years have been good to games overall and the PS4 in particular. The PS4 surprised a lot of people at launch, and it continued to do so throughout its first two years as it solidified its place at the top of the current generation of consoles. Could the PS4 actually outsell the PS2? Now that we've watched the trajectory, we've seen the way the gaming world has responded and we can start to think about the future, the question becomes: why not?