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100 Million PS2s Shipped

Posted by Zonk on from the prolific-console dept.

1up.com reports on a Sony release stating they've shipped 100 Million PS2 consoles. From the article: "PSOne took more than nine years to reach the same milestone Sony's achieved with PlayStation 2 in a little more than five. Sony says global shipments of PlayStation 2 break down to 40.65 million units in North America, 37.14 million in Europe and 22.22 million in all of Asia. The end result is Sony having a PlayStation brand that's moved roughly 1.86 billion units of hardware in a little over a decade, with plenty of time for PlayStation 2 to keep growing as the company makes the shift into next-generation in the coming year. "

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  1. So... how many of those were sold? by MilenCent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure it's a lot what with their market-leading position, but after the PSP discrepency between units-shipped and units-sold, I think it's a valid question.

    And, 1.86 BILLION pieces of hardware? How many of those are consoles, and how many are things like memory cards?

  2. Re:They've shipping! by BushCheney08 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They've shipping = They have shipping.

    This is something that I always look for when placing an order online...

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    Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
  3. Re:Doing the maths by Red+Flayer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, over the life of my PS1 I bought:

    (4) controllers
    (2) multi-taps
    (4) memory cards

    This doesn't include other hardware that shipped with the PS1, and it's probably a little above average (but 8-player FIFA was pretty fun).

    Over the life of my PS2 (so far) I have bought:

    (2) controllers
    (3) memory cards
    I didn't bother purchasing the hard drive or network adapter, and this is probably around average.

    So, including the units themselves, and not including additional hardware shipped with the base units, I've purchased 17 pieces of Sony hardware... from Sony. This doesn't include the knockoff disposable controllers and cord extenders I bought and cannibalized after they broke.

    So, 1.86bn pieces of hardware seems pretty darn attainable.

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  4. Wow! by chudgoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And thanks to Sony's faulty optics used in the PS2
    at least three of the 100-million are mine!
    (Only one, the redesigned PStwo, still works...for now)

    Just makes me wonder how many of those 100 million have been sent in for repair/refurb...

    1. Re:Wow! by Impotent_Emperor · · Score: 3, Insightful

      My PS2 is currently broken and I'm not looking to replace it or get it fixed.

  5. Blast Processing defined by tepples · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For comparrison to other more important and trendy questions of the day - does the XBox360 support Blast-Processing?

    Depends on whether a Sonic the Hedgehog classics compilation is one of the backward-compatible titles. In practice, if the name "Blast Processing" referred to anything, it was the name of the graphics engine in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. This engine used a lot of caching of objects to fixed parts of the Sega Genesis console's main RAM to take advantage of the fastest MC68000 addressing modes, something that modern consoles and their malloc() based memory management can't do as effectively. Anything that can emulate a Genesis can run Sonic 2 and any other hypothetical Genesis game that uses the same engine.

  6. How many are replacement units? by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And how many of the consoles sold are replacement consoles for the ones that broke?