PS2 shipments over 158.6m, breaking down missing fiscal data.

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Jumpin said:

Just my two cents on a trivial point brought up in this thread.

PS2 had over 1.5 billion pieces of software sold for it. PSX, Wii, and DS are the next three largest, all close together at about 920 to 980 million.
PS2 definitely didn't sell as a DVD player alone to the vast majority. That argument to me sounds a lot like "Wii only sold to grannies wanting Wii sports... let's just ignore the other ~850 games that sold on it" - At best, the DVD player added some value, but the vast majority bought it as a gaming console.

It is well known fact that Sony's definition of software is ever changing an example being  the PS1 software total included music cd's the PS2 was changed to include movie DVD's and the PS3 included Blu-ray movies but forgot to keep DVD movies hence why it failed , the PS4 rebounded by reincluding DVD's along with Blu-rays and The PS5 is going to be a software selling giant by adding everything digitally available on apps like Netflix Spotify etc to that list.