100 Million PS2’s Shipped
Sony announced recently that as of November 29th of this year, they had shipped 100 million Playstation 2 consoles worldwide. The breakdown looks like this:
- North America: 40.65 million
- Europe: 37.14 million
- Asia: 22.22 million
The PS2 accomplished this feat in a mere 5 years and 9 months. For comparison, the previous record was held by the original Playstation, which did it in 9 years and 6 months. No recent official figures are available from Microsoft or Nintendo, but estimates are that the XBox has sold 23 million units, while only about 19 million GameCube’s have been sold.
On the software side, about 6200 titles have been released for PS2, and around 7800 for PSOne. Total shipments of games is at nearly 1.9 billion. That’s a lot of games.
From Gamasutra.
