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

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AnthonyW86 said:

JRPGfan said:

Yes the PS2 sold at a faster rate (doing 20m+ years) compaired to this years 17.7m

You cant just choose to ignore the first 9months of its life though.

If you take 2years and 4months of sales for both, chances are the PS4 is still ahead.

Yes thats only because it didnt launch 9months ahead of time in japan only.

However it still doesnt change the fact.

PS4 sales are still ahead of the PS2s in the same time periode (2years4months).

However it looks like the PS4 isnt selling at as fast a rate as the PS2 was.

Which means eventually the PS2 will be ahead of the PS4.

It really is not if we look at worldwide release. Even if you want to disregard all that and still look at the time period only, you should look at each region individually. And while PS4 might be doing comparable numbers to PS2 in Europe or or even be a little ahead, it definitely is not the same case in the U.S. and no where near in Japan.

I've summed up the numbers when you align each region in the above post. This way we get the numbers for when the PS2 has been out for just as long as the PS4 has in each individual region, and the PS2 is unsurprisingly far ahead. Given that we know that, it's kinda pointless to talk about "first 2 years and 4 months from when it launched in the first region it launched in".