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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. 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...

  2. 1.8 Billion SOFTWARE, 200+ Million PS1+PS2s... by javaxman · · Score: 4, Interesting
    so, how much does it pay to be a slashdot editor, because I'm sure I'd actually read the linked article and check the story for obvious errors before submitting it ( yea, I'll be modded down, but isn't that what an "editor" is supposed to do? Half the damn posts here are about the story's "1.86 billion hardware" mistake... )

    Anyway, a key point here is ( or should be ) that there have been 1.86 *billion* Sony Playstation game disks sold. If the PS3 is backwards-compatible, that's a lot of people who have a lot of games they can *already* play on that system.

    Another key point is that the PS2 is going to continue to be sold for some time, and is easily the most successful console of all time, selling 100 million in 5 years and still going strong. I know people who will be getting thier *first* PS2 this Christmas, and believe me, they aren't thinking of it as a console near the end of it's life. I expect the PSone to be phased out sometime after the introduction of the PS3, but the PS2 is going to be around for a while yet.

  3. 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?