Guardian: Sony ends Playstation 2 production worldwide

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thismeintiel said:

TheSource said:

I think, for what it's worth the final breakdown for PS2 is something like this:

Globally: 155-157m?

US, Canada (50m ish for US & Canada), Western Europe, Australia (43m ish in W. Europe and Australia), and Japan (22m in JP) (115m-ish)

Continental Asia outside Japan (Hong Kong, Phillipines, South Korea Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Israel, China, Russia, etc) (20m)

Mexico (4m?), Central America (1m?), South America (10m?), Africa (2m?), Eastern & Central Europe (3m?) (20m)

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88773/sony-ships-65m-ps3s-in-q4-11-to-lose-29b-in-fy-lowers-ps3-fcst/

We know that through the end of 2011, Sony had shipped 154.4m PS3s (they had shipped 150m through January 2011 via a press release after reaching 149.8m on the final day of 2010).

The forecast for that year (to March 2012) projected 4m PS2s shipped, and the demand had been falling 50% year over year each quarter. So I think it's reasonable to assume PS2 ended up at 156m or so globally.

 

Well, the last hard number we got was March 2012, which was 155.1M.  For April-June, the PS3+PS2 shipped numbers were 2.8M.  Sony also announced the PS3 was down YOY (it shipped 1.8M in the same period for 2011), so the that would mean the PS2 at least shipped 1M, which puts it at 156.1M.  For July-Sept, the PS3+PS2 numbers were 3.5M.  I'm going to guess the PS2 shipped at least 500K of that number, which would put it at 156.6M.  There's not doubt the PS2 has shipped a few 100K for Oct-Dec, so my guess is it's at least managed to pass 157M by now. 

And I'm going to guess that this author was confused, like the previous author from a few days ago, and we'll still see PS3+PS2 numbers for at least a couple more quarters in 2013.

It probably is around 157m - but I don't think they've shipped more than 500,000 PS2s in a quarter since Q1 2012.