100 Million PS2s Shipped

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. "

Comments

Re:Quite a milestone

[rAiNsT0rm]

If you've read a bunch of my posts then you would know I was a reviewer of Sony only games and consoles. I actually LEFT my job due to the lack of direction, innovation, and excitement in Sony's current and future business. So to answer your question, nothing. I am currently only excited about the Nintendo Revolution and even that I am keeping a fair level of aprehension about until more is known.

All that said, Sony's ability to move 100 million PS2's is huge in this industry no matter who's side you are on. And the reason that 10 million is trumped up is because with the current production troubles especially with CPU yields and some current design issues that is a really tall order to move 10 million in one year. I guarantee it won't happen.

Re:Quite a milestone

[rAiNsT0rm]

Me. I've owned a grand total of 1 PS2, AND I was a game reviewer so the system even had to be modified to play some beta review discs. We're talking thousands of hours of gameplay, and it even served as the main DVD drive for a year or so.

It still runs fine and I have never had an issue.

I'm not claiming everyone had the same luck, and also I can verify that the disc read errors are a very real hardware issue... but to say anything sells 100 million units because they are crap is just silly.. and since it was posted AC, I can imagine it was said just to be an assclown.