Sony confirms PS2 has sold over 160 million

[XtremeBG]

Zarkho said:

XtremeBG said:

You can see all of that in my Historical Consoles Showdown.

It's with pure shipment numbers and sold after 2007 officially from Sony, up until March of 2012.

That's awesome! Thanks for taking the time, and for the hard work, of putting all that data together.

So, with those numbers... Do you think it is feasible that PS2 was able to sell the remaining 2.7 millions required to reach 160 millions? (your data ends with it on 157,330,000, so that 2.7 million figure is what would have need to reach the recent official number). In order to achieve that it would have need to sell an average of 337.500 units per quarter during the following two years (or 675.000 per quarter the following year), If im not mistaken.

Yep, they could easily sell them till the quarter ending march 2013. This is one year time to sell those systems, or 10 months to produce and ship them to the stores (since PS2 was discontinued in January 2013). It sold 4.1M the previous Fiscal year after all and 6.4M the fiscal year before that. What are 2.7M more ? The drop is there, and obviously the units have to be there, according to Sony. Everything is inline for one dying system, having last three fiscal years as 6.4M, 4.1M, and finally 2.7M. By today standards it wouldn't even be discontinued yet, as 2.7M is far from a year where you have to discontinue the system, but as far as I remember there were articles back then that were saying Sony is doing it because they are starting to prepare for the PS4 production.

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