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Zippy6 on 13 December 2021
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RolStoppable said:
Zippy6 said:

You're right there is a problem with the figures which is this: The FY05 manufactured units being duplicated in FY06 shipping figures has been accounted for but the FY06 manufactured units being duplicated in FY07 shipping numbers is not, so the true PS2 shipments as of March 31st 2012 is 157.3m MINUS however many FY07 shipments were manufactured in FY06.

Secondly "I think this entire thread is based on the faulty premise from this post." is not the case at all, the thread and OP don't even use the 157.3m as of March 31st 2020 figure to show PS2 must be over 158.6m. It uses a 155.1m as of March 31st 2012 figure, the 157.3m figure was mentioned in an edit in the OP and was not used for the whole post.

I remember Sony providing a summary for PS hardware and software shipments, except Vita, not too long ago. Is this where the 157.3m figure as of March 2020 comes from?

My bad that was meant to be March 31st 2012 lol, the figure came from adding together Sony's fiscal numbers for Manufactured FY99-FY06 and Shipped FY07-FY11. But according to ZhugeEx the difference between manufactured and shipped was a lot greater than the 0.51m I thought was accounted for.

155.01m as of March 31st 2012 is as far as I can find the correct number, but even that it's difficult to find a source. I just have this as explanation:

"PS2 Production Shipments were 117.9 million as of March 2007. At this point Sony switched from reporting production shipments to hardware sell in. Hardware sell in at this point was 115.6 million." from this thread

ZhuugeEx says 155.1m in this post, but adding the fiscal numbers from sony to the 115.6m figure actually brings the total to 155.01m

But yeah with this 155.01m figure, PS2 ships a minimum of 158.51m lifetime, if it had shipped less than this from the combined PS2+PS3 figures then PS3 would have reached 80m as of September 30th 2013, but the announcement from Sony that year was 80m as of November 2nd 2013.

Last edited by Zippy6 - on 13 December 2021