| ph4nt said: Sony themselves said 140 million will be shipped by the end of 2009. The number sold to consumers is much lower. Wikipedia =/= fact. |
No. Wikipedia has nothing to do with that. Let me quote from http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1c46ad2e-5678-11dd-8686-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1, which was posted on July 20, 2008:
Sony told those attending the video game industry’s E3 convention last week that sales of its original PlayStation, launched in 1994, had reached 102m units and the PlayStation 2 console had now passed 140m worldwide in its ninth year on sale.
note they are referring to Sony's E3 2008 presentations. That being said, I think that current actual PS2 sales of 130-135 million are a reasonable estimate as I cannot imagine that any retailer would want to have piles of decade-old electronics lying around. I could be wrong though.
Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it
