op: i just crunched those numbers not even an our ago without PSP(before made this thread) and without PSP, all 3 Sony PS home consoles sit at around 321m ww ruffly.

hey ryan!! do a ninty thread on this. nintys 5 home consoles total over 200m. add the handhelds in and.................

This is why Sony will be around the gaming industry for a LONG time. Congrats

Some say Sony will cease to exist on 21 dec 2012. Haters still be hatin

Coming home from school aged about 6 and seeing my dad playing on the Playstation.  Demo 1 disk.  The original Demo 1, the one with this music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DUKZ5cjmIU.

Saw him play Battle Arena Toshinden and Jumping Flash.  Then he let me have a go.  Was all uphill after that :D

Nah, we don't want to overshadow Sony's accomplishment or start a flame war or anything. Maybe the next time Nintendo hits a major milestone, but today, in this thread, it's aaallllll about PlayStation. :)

Well unless ioi knows something we don't, the PS1 figure is definately a mistake... I just totted up the shipment figures (Sony handily gave a cumulative number through FY2000, then I had to add each year) and it came handily to the 102.49 million figure.

The VGC PS2 figure is meant to be lower than the shipment figure because PS2 is still active... it's the content of Sony's shipment figures that I am unsure of because they kept swapping between reporting sales (which are actually shipments to retail) and "production shipments" which is an internal tracking method, and it's possible that during the transitions between the two methods consoles get counted twice... it is also possible that "production shipments" include all created machines, which means any Sony sent out as replacements for faulty models would also be counted.

good point. we have like 10 sony dominated threads going already lol.

Then it's about 630 million. Home consoles only are about 260 if my memory serves, didn't bother to check .

Congrats on the milestone. It's pretty impressive. 

But sadly I think it'll be a long time before the 500 gets passed. The PlayStation brand has probably peaked, and will never again reach the success of PS1 and especially PS2. I don't mean to sound pessimistic, I mean even though I'm primarily a Nintendo fan, PlayStation is one of the only consoles 'worthy' in my eyes to reach milestones like this.

Voted for 2020, but it could also be 2019; The PS3'll do another 20 million units, the Vita won't get past 20. And it'll take a very long time also, I just don't see it happen. Assuming the PS4 releases in 2014 at the latest and also lives 6 years, so you have 400 + 20 + 18 + (PS4sales which would be about 70) in the next 8 years give or take. Sounds like a reasonable prediction to me!

i see the lot of us are lazy these days lol.

yee of little faith. believe and it will come to fruition. it's good to think that while not knowing, cause that of the future has yet to be revealed.

fairly reasonable though lol.