Lawlight said:
STRYKIE said:
By the way, it seems some people aren't aware of this, but the PS2 was officially discontinued last year, and most likely hadn't been in production for a while anyway, I don't think those last remaining units were sold last year, maybe it was undertracked all along.
But what do I know? 140m of those units only sold because it was bundled with phone contracts, was a cheap DVD player, and was firmly isolated in having disc drive idiosyncrasies. Meanwhile, the PS3 somehow got less unreliable. |
It was discontinued in January of this year. These numbers stop at March 2013.
And lol at that last part. Good one, mate.
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I'm pretty sure SCEA and SCEE were just a few weeks late announcing the discontinuation, obviously we can't discount leftover stock (I still see brand new 9000 series models floating around in considerable quantities), but the PS1 for example had their last units manufactured in 2004, while the platform itself wasn't discontinued per se until 2006. I could be wrong, all I'm saying it that announcements aren't necessarily always real-time.
And heh, just doing what I can for the community. But honestly, the premise of how it sold on the basis of being a DVD player was always silly. I remember watching some documentary about the Dreamcast supposedly doing really well in Japan, which couldn't possibly be more wrong, and how the only reason it fell short was because of the PS2, the 1000 series models weren't able to play DVD movies at all (although it obviously still supported DVD-ROM for games that used the format) until an encryption pack was released shortly before the US/EU launch.
