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javi741 on 01 May 2021
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mk7sx said:
javi741 said:

Made that data into a bar graph. I added the PS2's shipment data between Janurary 1st-March 31st of 2005 to be able to include every console in history. Unfortunately there's no sell-through data of the PS2'S first quarter anywhere on the internet so I decided to use shipments even though it is subject to be completely wrong when it comes to actual sell-through between that time period. Plus I did a little estimation for the PS2's shipment data since it doesn't include the time period between March 31st and April 17th. But other than that all the sell-through data is spot on.

I think PS2 "shipment data" is different from what Sony provides today (PS2 - units produced, PS4 - units sold-in to retailers), which is why PS2's holiday quarter shipment figures often seemed weak (holiday production happened in late Q1 and Q2, this is why PS2 hit a peak of like 8M "shipped" in Q2).  So don't know if this is comparable to the others.  But regardless PS2 exceeded 20M shipped twice so it would have definitely would make it on this list if we the equivalent VGC numbers.

Ok, that makes more sense. Cause I find it unlikely that the PS2 out of nowhere shipped over 6M to retailers in 2005 where PS2 sales were nowhere near their peak like in 2002 and 2003. I guess we'll never know how much the PS2 sold through but like you said it's safe to assume that the PS2 at least had to make this bar graph once since it is the greatest selling system ever even if sales never peaked as high as Nintendo consoles. Possibly the PS1 may have made it as well.