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NiKKoM on 06 January 2013

Damn.. Can't get one anymore online in the Netherlands.. bol.com bartsmit intertoys mediamarkt.. It ain't out of stock but they are just not offering it anymore.. I need to get one as replacement..



 

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S.Peelman on 06 January 2013
NiKKoM said:
Damn.. Can't get one anymore online in the Netherlands.. bol.com bartsmit intertoys mediamarkt.. It ain't out of stock but they are just not offering it anymore.. I need to get one as replacement..

True, I haven't seen a PS2 in stores or webshops here in at least three years.

For a replacement, even though it would be second hand, I guess Marktplaats would be the best bet.



VGKing on 06 January 2013
KHlover said:

Congrats to the now (officially?) 2nd best selling console of all times. Thank you for giving me Kingdom Hearts and so much more...Damn, the tears are coming, for real. 

PS2 is the best selling console of all time. #1

If you were referring to the DS, that is a handheld.



VGKing on 06 January 2013
Nsanity said:
Why would Sony issue a press release?

To gloat about how long it kept selling?

Anyway they'll probably mention this in the next Playstatin Meeting. I believe it was February?



TheSource on 06 January 2013
thismeintiel said:
TheSource said:

I think, for what it's worth the final breakdown for PS2 is something like this:

Globally: 155-157m?

US, Canada (50m ish for US & Canada), Western Europe, Australia (43m ish in W. Europe and Australia), and Japan (22m in JP) (115m-ish)

Continental Asia outside Japan (Hong Kong, Phillipines, South Korea Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Israel, China, Russia, etc) (20m)

Mexico (4m?), Central America (1m?), South America (10m?), Africa (2m?), Eastern & Central Europe (3m?) (20m)

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88773/sony-ships-65m-ps3s-in-q4-11-to-lose-29b-in-fy-lowers-ps3-fcst/

We know that through the end of 2011, Sony had shipped 154.4m PS3s (they had shipped 150m through January 2011 via a press release after reaching 149.8m on the final day of 2010).

The forecast for that year (to March 2012) projected 4m PS2s shipped, and the demand had been falling 50% year over year each quarter. So I think it's reasonable to assume PS2 ended up at 156m or so globally.

 

Well, the last hard number we got was March 2012, which was 155.1M.  For April-June, the PS3+PS2 shipped numbers were 2.8M.  Sony also announced the PS3 was down YOY (it shipped 1.8M in the same period for 2011), so the that would mean the PS2 at least shipped 1M, which puts it at 156.1M.  For July-Sept, the PS3+PS2 numbers were 3.5M.  I'm going to guess the PS2 shipped at least 500K of that number, which would put it at 156.6M.  There's not doubt the PS2 has shipped a few 100K for Oct-Dec, so my guess is it's at least managed to pass 157M by now. 

And I'm going to guess that this author was confused, like the previous author from a few days ago, and we'll still see PS3+PS2 numbers for at least a couple more quarters in 2013.

It probably is around 157m - but I don't think they've shipped more than 500,000 PS2s in a quarter since Q1 2012. 



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brendude13 on 06 January 2013

"It trounced its underpowered rivals, the Nintendo GameCube and Sega Dreamcast"

"became the exclusive home of must-have games such as Grand Theft Auto III, Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid"

A few issues with the article.

I don't want it to stop being manufactured. It's still selling isn't it? And the profit margins should be much greater than the PS3's.



thismeintiel on 06 January 2013
Nsanity said:
Why would Sony issue a press release?

I don't know, maybe cause it's the bestelling console EVER.  Still, even if they didn't put out a press release, they would have at least emailed all the big gaming sites with the info.  Of course, the vast majority of serious gaming sites only have articles about it being discontinued in Japan.  While I've only seen 2 sites try and stretch the info to be for WW, as well as give outdated shipment data for the final tally.  When its time, Sony isnt going to be like, "Oh and btw, we stopped producing the PS2, it probably ended up somewhere over 150M." 



 

007BondAgent on 06 January 2013

greatest console ever without a doubt :(

My childhood was the PS2 :'(



smbu2000 on 06 January 2013
thismeintiel said:
Nsanity said:
Why would Sony issue a press release?

I don't know, maybe cause it's the longest (minus the 2600) and bestelling console EVER.  Still, even if they didn't put out a press release, they would have at least emailed all the big gaming sites with the info.  Of course, the vast majority of serious gaming sites only have articles about it being discontinued in Japan.  While I've only seen 2 sites try and stretch the info to be for WW, as well as give outdated shipment data for the final tally.  When its time, Sony isnt going to be like, "Oh and btw, we stopped producing the PS2, it probably ended up somewhere over 150M." 

Nintendo made the Famicom for 20 years in Japan, from 1983-2003.




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thismeintiel on 06 January 2013
smbu2000 said:
thismeintiel said:
Nsanity said:
Why would Sony issue a press release?

I don't know, maybe cause it's the longest (minus the 2600) and bestelling console EVER.  Still, even if they didn't put out a press release, they would have at least emailed all the big gaming sites with the info.  Of course, the vast majority of serious gaming sites only have articles about it being discontinued in Japan.  While I've only seen 2 sites try and stretch the info to be for WW, as well as give outdated shipment data for the final tally.  When its time, Sony isnt going to be like, "Oh and btw, we stopped producing the PS2, it probably ended up somewhere over 150M." 

Nintendo made the Famicom for 20 years in Japan, from 1983-2003.

Well, poo.  I'll just edit that part out, as I'm sure there may be more.  I'll just have to settle for best selling.