TheBigFatJ on 06 December 2007
mrstickball said
The Playstation 2, in a 3 month period, October 2001-December 2001 (it's first full Christmas worldwide, having launched in Feb/Mar 2000 in Japan alone), shipped 8.07 million hardware units, according to VGC.
The Wii, for comparison has sold/shipped 3.2m units in the same period.
The point is that the PS2 didn't sell as fast as the Wii, so Sony didn't have to produce as many PS2s in the same period as Nintendo had to produce Wiis. Did Sony manage to produce more than 15 million PS2s in the first year after they introduced it?
About half as many.
