Sony reaches 525 million Playstation System sell-through milestone and commemorates it with a limited translucent PS4 Pro Edition

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tak13 on 09 August 2018

Farsala said:

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Also ps2 sales total here should be 156.4m since sales in Japan are 21.93m not 23.18m...

Ps2 shipments total as of march 2012 is 155.1m, sony kept shipping the super cheap ( 99$ ) ps2 units in some emerging markets till march 2013.

Was it 1.3m? Who knows ( they combined shipment data of ps2 with ps3 in that fiscal year ) , but it wouldn't be much more than 1m for obvious reasons, for instance its shipments dropped to 900k in CY12Q4 ( holidays ) from 1.20m in CY12Q3 ( 10th year, extremely impressive sales . )

I am fairly sure most people estimated PS2 to be around 160m. If not then the PS3 and PS Vita sold much better than we thought.

PS1 102.49M

PS2 156.5-157.5

PS3 87.5-88m

PSP 81-82M

PSV 15-16M

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Aeolus451 on 09 August 2018

It looks great. Already preordered a ps4 pro though.

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Alkibiádēs said:

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What a huge number, since more than 20 years Playstation has always been the number 1 platform for gaming!

Btw is it possible to guess PS Vita numbers with this announcement?

If you ignore the DS, the 3DS and Wii lol.

DS and 3DS are handhelds, they don't really count imo. PS3 is a better platform for gaming than Wii. Wii only sold slightly better because it was way cheaper than the PS3 and focused a lot more on a casual audience.

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Farsala on 09 August 2018

tak13 said:

Farsala said:

I am fairly sure most people estimated PS2 to be around 160m. If not then the PS3 and PS Vita sold much better than we thought.

PS1 102.49M

PS2 156.5-157.5

PS3 87.5-88m

PSP 81-82M

PSV 15-16M

And PS4 was revealed as 81.2m. With 525.3m total. I would guess PSV is on the lower end of that estimate as well (But its still selling). PS3 could be 88-90 tbh.

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The special PS4 looks really ugly. Kinda like those cheap controllers I used to buy.

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tak13 on 09 August 2018

Farsala said:

tak13 said:

PS1 102.49M

PS2 156.5-157.5

PS3 87.5-88m

PSP 81-82M

PSV 15-16M

And PS4 was revealed as 81.2m. With 525.3m total. I would guess PSV is on the lower end of that estimate as well (But its still selling). PS3 could be 88-90 tbh.

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Farsala said:

tak13 said:

PS1 102.49M

PS2 156.5-157.5

PS3 87.5-88m

PSP 81-82M

PSV 15-16M

And PS4 was revealed as 81.2m. With 525.3m total. I would guess PSV is on the lower end of that estimate as well (But its still selling). PS3 could be 88-90 tbh.

Check this : https://www.neogaf.com/threads/sony-playstation-home-console-shipments-reach-370-million-worldwide-data-inside.1023022/

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Alkibiádēs on 09 August 2018

Dr.Vita said:

Alkibiádēs said:

If you ignore the DS, the 3DS and Wii lol.

DS and 3DS are handhelds, they don't really count imo. PS3 is a better platform for gaming than Wii. Wii only sold slightly better because it was way cheaper than the PS3 and focused a lot more on a casual audience.

Lmao, you do realize Sony doesn't make the 500M milestone if you take away the sales of the PSP and PS Vita right?

Wii sold 15 million more units than the PS3. Also what console you prefer is entirely subjective and totally besides the point as this is a sales thread. PS3 wasn't number one, it was a big failure that cost Sony billions of dollars.

The only reason handhelds don't count to you is because Nintendo crushed them twice and kicked them out of the handheld market.

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