Sony confirms PS2 has sold over 160 million

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Norion said:

Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

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.

That was the reason we got one lol. DVD players at that time where we lived was $400-$500 range easily. But I do think it was primarily that launch window that people would’ve bought a PS2 as a DVD player because when 2001 rolled around…….it was over. 

Devil May Cry

Silent Hill 2

Metal Gear Solid 2

Jak & Daxter

Grand Theft Auto 3

Ico

Final Fantasy X

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec

Ace Combat 4

What a HELL of a lineup for a single year! It turned the PS2 into the gaming powerhouse it was and turned us who were mainly using it as a DVD player into practically a gaming only device.