The PS2 never reached 160 million! It was at 155,1 million at march 31, 2012. This is shipped. And it explaines why they say "over 155 million sold" when they changed to sold through. Many people thought that shipments would have been at 158 million when sales where 155 million, but the difference was obviously less than 0,1 million. So people asumed that 3 million more in 2012- 2013 would be reasonable for its last 10 months bringing the total to 161 million. But after we know that 155,1 million is SHIPPED until march 2012 158- 159 million is much more realistic. Aditionally to strenghten my arguments we again have the fact that Sony NEVER announced 160 million to begin with. Even in 2018 as it was correctly stated they felt more need to highlight 500 million consoles sold than "160 million PS2". IF the PS2 reached or surpassed tgis milestone Sony would have announced it. A german webside sourced an vgchartz article back in december 2012 wrongfully claiming that the DS passed the PS2. Some days later this news was updated. Sony called them and said this was not true. Till march 2012 155,1 million PS2 units where SHIPPED (ausgefolgt= an den Handel ausgeliefert= SHIPPED). And what they said then was interesting: "Mittlerweile nähert man sich der Marke von 160 Millionen Geräten" ("Meanwhile we are nearing the mark of 160 million units").
This was at mid december 2012. Around 1 month later the system was discontinued. And NO announcement of 160 million units.
So we know as a FACT, in december 2012 Sony did NOT reach 160 million units! And seriously i doubt they did it later. I am desperatly trying to find the source. And i will update the post as soon as i found it.
To make it short: Intended or not but Sony did NOT tell the truth here!
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