Sony confirms PS2 has sold over 160 million

[Norion]

Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

Norion said:

Over 1.5 billion PS2 games were sold. Only the PS4 and likely the Switch have surpassed that so what do you mean by glorified DVD player?

Also, PS2 games were very easy to pirate. Here in Brazil a lot of people who bought a PS2 never purchased a original game.

But oh well, this is the excuse some people have to justify why the PS2 is still the best selling console.

Yeah people often heavily overstate the DVD player aspect to downplay the PS2. It helped of course but the vast, vast majority of it sales came from it being a fantastic video game console that was a successor to another fantastic console.