From industry analyst Daniel Ahmad (ZhugeEx):

https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1321494050843840513?s=20

PS4 has now sold approximately 1.5 billion games! It’s about to surpass PS2’s lifetime software sales total to become the highest selling software of all time on one system- pretty incredible!

No other system has crossed a billion games sold.

The PS4 system may not reach the PS2 total lifetime unit sales - but a permanent price drop to $199 could help it get close. Let’s see what Sony does after the PS5 drops.  Software sales may even exceed 2 billion by the end as the PS4 was able to sell over 320 million games in the past year alone.

Remarkable feat by Sony!

It probably already passed 1.5B, and for sure this year it will surpass PS2 SW sales, even more with BC allowing some people that may jump to PS5 wanting to buy older games they didn't play.

Already!! Thats really impressive!

That might just be more impressive than selling more units than PS2. Making it $199 and taking a shot at the hardware sales crown however, would be exciting if they thought they truly had a shot. That would be a major PR headline during PS5's lifetime.

This might not be as impressive as you think. Long story short, I think this includes digital games, cheap games, indie games, etc. It's still impressive, for sure, but I'm not sure if it's as impressive as we all think.

If this includes digital. Not that impressive. It's like counting the movie box office today vs 20 years ago without accounting for inflation. PS4 like anything with a digital store front is loaded with less than $5 pieces of software. PS2 broke the record with all physical games and no MSRP below $20. Mostt games $50 in the early 2000's money.

PS4 > PS2

PS consoles always are software beasts!

It is even more impressive when you look at the profit Playstation is doing. Look at any year on PS2 it was never this high.

Except we are counting sw sold not revenue.

The difference between what you said and what I said, despite us both claiming this to not be as impressive as it looks, is that what I said was meant to be realistic and not get too hyped whereas you are trying to downplay this accomplishment. It's the subtle use of words, the focus, and the context that matters.