Sony: "40 Million PS4's Shipped As Of March 31"

[AnthonyW86]

Swordmasterman said:

JRPGfan said:

Do we know that for a fact?

going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_sales

March 31, 2000  = 1.41

March 31, 2002 = 28.68

March 31, 2003 = 51.20  (3years after launch)

 

PS4 took 2 years and 4months to ship 40m.

Lets give it another 6months and then compair that number to the March 31, 2003 number of the PS2.

Then we should have the full picture, and be able to say one way or the other.

So PS4, need to ship over 11 Millions from now to  November, to stay on par against the PS2 ?, i don't think that is impossible when Last Year's Q3, they shipped over 3 Millions of units, and Q4, over 8-9 Millions of Units

As others have mentioned, PS2 was only available in Japan at first and launched worldwide later on. However we can compare the two if we start from March 31 2001:

March 31, 2001= 10.61

March 31, 2003= 51.20

That means that PS2 shipped 40,59 million units in just two years, without counting initial sales at launch prior to March 31 2001. That's just as much as PS4's total number including sales before March 31 2014. So it's certain PS2 is ahead now.

Also to comment on your other post i did not include Dreamcast bcause that was already dead in the water after two years and Wii-U is what Gamecube was back then(a little lower in sales). So PS2 really did have less competition, especially in the U.S.