The problem with adding millions onto any specific one of Sony's hardware is that you then have to subtract that amount from one of their other hardware. Sony made a very specific 500 million PlayStation's sold announcement a while back (actually 525.3m on 8/9/2018 to be specific) that already didn't match VGChart's estimates for the lifetime totals of PlayStations that had been on the market up to that point. Since then, the lifetime totals for the original PlayStation was correctly paired back from 104.25m to 102.5m. Which was something that I had gotten some push back against for suggesting as the topic of my first ever thread on this forum way back in April of 2015 - Is PS One overtracked on VGChartz (serious and honest question).
Did the original PlayStation sell over 104 million units? | |||
| Yes, 104.25 is the correct number. | 39 | 46.99% | |
| No, 102.49 is more likely. | 44 | 53.01% | |
| Total: | 83 |
Over the years, I've seen a lot of people comment that one Sony console or another should be adjusted up in sales (adjust PSP up in order to pass Gameboy Advance for example), but they rarely suggest which console(s) those sales should be taken away from.
Here is what VGChart's had for Sony Platforms at the time of the 525 million PlayStations sold announcement (Sony reaches 525 million Playstation System sell-through milestone and commemorates it with a limited translucent PS4 Pro Edition):
PlayStation2: 157.68m
PlayStation: 104.25m
PlayStation3: 86.90m
PlayStation4: 81.06m
PlayStationPortable: 80.82m
PlayStationVita: 16.03m
VGChartz totals: = 526.74m
8/9/2018 Announcement: 525.3m
And here's what the legacy platforms have been adjusted to since then - leaving the PS4 total where it was at the time of the announcement, and the Vita since it hadn't been discontinued until 2019 (Platform Totals - VGChartz):
PlayStation2: 157.68m
PlayStation: 102.50m
PlayStation3: 87.41m
PlayStation4: 81.06m
PlayStationPortable: 81.09m
PlayStationVita: 16.03m
VGChartz totals: = 525.77m
8/9/2018 Announcement: 525.3m
As you can see, the adjustments that were made to VGChartz' estimates for Sony's legacy hardware brings this site very closely back in line with what Sony themselves announced as total sales by the PlayStation family as of August 9, 2018. So, if you are suggesting that PS2 may have sold 161m consoles, that's nearly 4 million more consoles that need to be subtracted from somewhere else in the PlayStation family that hasn't been adjusted already since Sony's 2018 announcement. Which of Sony's consoles do you think are still listed as overtracked here?
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