Shawn Layden confirmed the legitimacy of that picture. Though that was after he left PlayStation.

But, why would he lie?

And he actually knows it soo. Thats proof for me.

I absolutely do think that Sony went into defense mode over the PS2's record when Switch crossed the 150m mark and this latest change to Sony's business data page pretty much confirms that.

The "more than 160.0m" that was listed previously was subject to many of us concluding that it did not sell 100k more, but now it has been changed to eliminate what little accuracy was present for a far more ambiguous "somewhere over 160m".  Why change it at all then unless it was simply to mask that all that is needed to top it is 100k more?  Or, to instead confirm that it did indeed exceed 160.1m, which Sony did not do.

And I agree that it is suspicious that Sony would not have announced that it crossed the 160m mark over a decade ago, but it still remains possible when we look at the PS3's total produced vs total sold.  But just barely.

The PS3's final manufactured number is:  88,159,116 units...

... and we know that the console actually shipped/sold 87.4m.  That is a difference of around 759k units that did not make retail.

Looking at the PS2's final produced number at 160,636,885 units...

... that would mean that no more than 636,884 units didn't make it to retail in order for it to be "more than 160m", which is possible, I suppose. 

But the idea that it could have reached 100k over 160m for shipped/sold units is just completely unbelievable now.

This is why I do hope that the Switch does beat the record that the PS2 holds currently; not because I'm a Nintendo fan, not just because this is likely the only shot left in my lifetime to see it broken, and it's not as if I dislike the PS2 at all... but because of Sony's complete lack of transparency regarding the console's sales. 

If Sony didn't resort to lumping shipment numbers together to hide lacking sales in the first place then we wouldn't have to rely on its ex-executives to set the record straight.  Seriously, it seems like Shawn Layden has confirmed more playstation numbers in the last few years than Sony itself.  Props to him, I guess.

Yeah agreed. I also hope Switch tops 160.64 million lifetime, which will end any argument. 

Laydon was ex-employee. Therefore not a representative anymore to speak on behalve of Sony. I think its prudent to use Sony's official information.

Besides if Laydon knew this number as employee, why not disclose it earlier. In the position as CEO he needs to accurately inform the shareholders. Essentially not correcting the earlier communicated 155 he would have misinformed his shareholders.

So someone who is high up ex sony doesnt know the facts and just straight up lies...

Yea,highly believable.

FACTS are..on the sony site it says higher then 160mill. Thats it offical sony stats.

Nobody has proof its not real, not one little piece of proof just" sony lies" " i dont believe it" "my gut tells me" 

Show proof if not  stay silent and wait until switch passes the 160mill.

A (changing) line of code on a web page doesn't constitute a fact. They even got the year wrong...

So in reality ninty already manufactored more then 160mill then.

Great ps2 has been detrowned.. end of story.

lol, I don't think so. I highly doubt they manufactured like four million consoles they didn't ship. Neither did Sony with the PS2. I guess we're talking about less than a 1 million difference between "manufactured but not shipped" and "shipped to actual retailers with the intent to be sold to actual customers".