PS2 sold over 100 million units!

[jajaja]

Dont know if this is old news, just read it in a online newspaper here. Anyway, 100 million PS2 machines in like 6 years is over 45000 PS2s sold every day.

22.22 millions sold in Asia
40.65 millions sold in North America
37.14 millions sold in Europe

Over 6200 PS2 titles to choose from too.
Congrats Sony! :)

[Kejoriv]

Do you have the link to the story? I want to read it.

Thanks

[jajaja]

Dont have an english article, sorry :\

[THATinkjar]

Dont know if this is old news, just read it in a online newspaper here. Anyway, 100 million PS2 machines in like 6 years is over 45000 PS2s sold every day.

22.22 millions sold in Asia
40.65 millions sold in North America
37.14 millions sold in Europe

Over 6200 PS2 titles to choose from too.
Congrats Sony! :)

That is... insane! 45,000 PlayStation 2s sold every friggin' day?! Just incredible. Has the Xbox even sold 45,000 in Japan since its launch?!

As for the number of games... 6,200 games.. just "wow". I am glad I don't collect for this console :) I own something like sixty games... oh well, just another 6,140 odd to go...

[Mayhem]

I have a funny feeling the games included every region added together multiple copy wise (so something released in all three regions is counting as three games here). Even the PS1 only managed about 1200-1500 games per region.

[jajaja]

Ye, that might be. I thought 6200 games in 6 years sounded like alot, but I guess its possible. Doesnt PSX have like 10000 games?

[Oobgarm]

Do you have the link to the story? I want to read it.

Thanks

http://gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=13324

[Kejoriv]

Do you have the link to the story? I want to read it.

Thanks

http://gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=13324

Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff and great site. I forgot about that website.

[sabre2922]

Impressive.....most impressive 8-)

I think this generation Playstation has more life left in it for a number of reasons, heres a couple:

A lot of both casual and avid gamers are not impressed with the slight Improvement in graphic quality with the first Next-gen system thus far (especially casuals) and are very content with thier current machines.

Also; IMO there are going to be FAR FEWER EARLY ADAPTERS WITH THE NEXT GENERATION OF CONSOLES and there will be no rush to next gen the way their was when the Playstation 2 was released therefore the adaptation process will be MUCH slower in comparison with previous current gen to next gen.

Another is that the current PS2 ALREADY PLAYS DVD AND MOST OF THE DISC FORMATS that both the 360 and PS3 will play (sure the PS3 will have blue ray) but my point is that the uneducated masses that actually make or break a console for better or worse just isnt very interested in yet another disc format -no matter how much the tech geeks get off on the stuff it just doesnt matter to the mass of casual gamers or movie buffs.

Overall I see this generation of consoles,specifically the PS2, lasting much longer than any other before it.

Dont get me wrong Im not downing the Xbox 1 or Gamecbue but we have had enough threads on the fate of those two systems already so I wont waste anyones time with that.

[Tanis178]

i wonder if those numbers reflect replacing broken ones....

[hydr0x]

just to make this clear:

it is 100 Mio units SHIPPED, not sold, i'd say ~10 mio of those are still stock and another ~10 mio were replacement units (yes, they count those). Still an impressive number, but the 100 is not sales!!

[GrandAmChandler]

Another question is, when a unit is returned defective, then SONY "refurbishes" it. Does the refurbished unit count as another unit, or does it just replace the old unit in terms of total quantity shipped?

If it counts as another unit, a HIGH percent of that 100 million are refurbs :P

[davidbrit2]

Wow! Then by my calculations... nearly half a million different people have purchased PS2s!

[swlovinist]

This is the reason why Sony is in no hurry to get into the next gen market. The reason why they are #1 is that the company has a wide range of users including the "Billy Joe Bobs" of the world that only care about the newest incarnation of Deer Hunter. Not everyone is online with their console playing multiplayer. Not everyone gives a shit about the prettiest graphics, let alone innovative title. Heck if you were to ask me what is the #1 question I have been asked recently at a game store it would be "Is there a casino game"? I think a current example is that Xbox live I think just surpassed 2 to 3 million mark in comparasion. If over 40 million just in the States alone have bought a PS2, then playing multiplayer over the net on your console has just scratched the surface of gamers. Nobody can deny that the PS2 owned the competition in sales.

[whoisKeel]

PlayStation 2 is strongly supported by a wide range of users as well as from third party developers and publishers, and by maintaining backward compatibility of software titles for its predecessor system for the first time in the history of computer entertainment...

First time?

[drummy]

Dont have an english article, sorry :\
What language is it in?

[unwinddesign]

I've bought three PS2s by myself. A launch, the revision that added DVD-R support etc. and the slim.

[PapaStu]

Ye, that might be. I thought 6200 games in 6 years sounded like alot, but I guess its possible. Doesnt PSX have like 10000 games?


Simply put maybe worldwide and for every release. The US only got +/-1300 Commercial releases, not counting demos or The Lightspan games (educational games made for school and not released to the general public). Its said that Japan easily had close to double that and the Europes numbers are close to the US in actual releases.

As of right now (not counting GH or other re-releases) the US is looking at just about 1200 PS2 games.

[Xizer]

I bet at least a third of those are replacements for broken PS2s.

[stressboy]

I bet at least a third of those are replacements for broken PS2s.

Yeah I am really sure that is the case. :roll:

[EricRyan34]

I bet at least a third of those are replacements for broken PS2s.


yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh



probably NOT LOL

[zmweasel]

PlayStation 2 is strongly supported by a wide range of users as well as from third party developers and publishers, and by maintaining backward compatibility of software titles for its predecessor system for the first time in the history of computer entertainment...

First time?

Whoa... how did I miss that mouthful of crap? LOL

If Sony is referring to the home-console market, which I assume it is, then the statement is correct. (The Atari 7800 wasn't the successor to the Atari 2600; the 5200 was.)

-- Z.

[crazyjackcsa]

PlayStation 2 is strongly supported by a wide range of users as well as from third party developers and publishers, and by maintaining backward compatibility of software titles for its predecessor system for the first time in the history of computer entertainment...

First time?

Whoa... how did I miss that mouthful of crap? LOL

If Sony is referring to the home-console market, which I assume it is, then the statement is correct. (The Atari 7800 wasn't the successor to the Atari 2600; the 5200 was.)

-- Z.

Unless you allow for the SMS-Genny converter. Or take handhelds into consideration.

[kevin_psx]

So which thread to believe? The 74 million PS2s sold thread or this one cliaming 100 mil?

And is PS2 is at 100 wouldn't PSX/one be somewhere around 110 mil?

[zmweasel]

So which thread to believe? The 74 million PS2s sold thread or this one cliaming 100 mil?

And is PS2 is at 100 wouldn't PSX/one be somewhere around 110 mil?

The 74-million thread was started more than a year ago. The PS2 has reached the 100-million mark in the year between that thread and this one. The old thread was correct, and the new one is correct.

Speaking of that old thread, perhaps you missed my question there, so I'll repeat it here: where did you get your Nintendo hardware sales figures, which led you to erroneously claim that the N64 and GameCube had sold as many systems as the NES and SNES?

As for the PSone, no, it wouldn't be at 110 million because Sony's and the retail world's marketing efforts are focused on the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube. The PSone's broadcast day is over. A previous-gen console isn't going to sell ten million systems four years after being superceded by new hardware. Why would you think any different?

-- Z.

[kevin_psx]

Why's PS1 stuck at 100 million? It was there back in 2003. Thought PS1 = 110 million by now?The PS1 hit the end of its lifecycle. It's not "stuck" at 100 million--it ended at 100 million.
PS1 hasn't reached the end of its cycle. Its still selling as the white-colored version & likely sold another 10 million since 2003.



Sure it has. Nintendo's "failed" N64 and "failed" Gamecube both sold as many units as the #1 NES or #1 SNES. Nintendo benefited from the growing popularity of gaming - such that even "failed" consoles = NES/SNES in units sold.
I was wrong about the GameCube - it only sold 20 million so far.

Between 1985-91 NES sold about 30 million. Same amount as SNES. Same amount as the N64. My source for these figures are too many to list - Newsweek, NPD, digitpress.com, this forum, and other articles.

[zmweasel]

Between 1985-91 NES sold about 30 million. Same amount as SNES. Same amount as the N64. My source for these figures are too many to list - Newsweek, NPD, digitpress.com, this forum, and other articles.

While your sentence is written in a such a way that you're claiming the NES, SNES, and N64 all sold about 30 million units between 1985 and 1991, I'm guessing that what you meant is that each of those systems sold 30 million units in its first six years of existence. I don't know offhand if this is the case or not, but I suspect you're incorrect. Is this the claim you were trying to make in your earlier post, and I misunderstood, or is this a different claim?

Also, could you cite just one or two specific sources for any of your numbers? I don't need a list, just one or two. I've yet to find a single source that backs your statements, so I'm hoping you can help me out.

-- Z.