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PAOerfulone 3 hours ago

And finally,

Poor Vita...



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Slownenberg 3 hours ago

I think that puts to bed the idea of Switch having a shot at passing the PS2. Hitting 158m was already a big stretch unless they do major price drops on the Switch, which they seem to have zero desire to do. But with PS2 up at 160.X million I don't see Switch getting anywhere near that. DS is now the main target for the Switch, with the PS2 remaining the king.



Hiku 2 hours ago

Nice to experience this update since I wasn't keeping track of sales back when PS2 was a current gen system.

Shikamo said:

 Honestly, I'm certain that PS2 sold more than 160m + but I just dont understand why Sony dont give us the exactly numbers :X

Probably to have a milestone number that looks nice.
160,731,027 doesn't quite have the same ring to it.



padib 1 hour ago
Torpoleon said:

@Shikamo To be fair, we know that PS1 sold 102.49m and PS3 sold 87.40m, but Sony put "over 102m" for PS1 and "over 87m" for PS3. With that in mind, I'd imagine that it is safe to say PS2 is somewhere over 160m but still less than 161m. The PSP stating "over 80m" might be of lesser importance because it is in smaller text (I believe it was already confirmed that the PSP outsold the GBA's 81.51m).

This is the only way to read this news. So it's official, PS2 160-160.99m



JRPGfan 1 hour ago
Alex_The_Hedgehog said:
Norion said:

Over 1.5 billion PS2 games were sold. Only the PS4 and likely the Switch have surpassed that so what do you mean by glorified DVD player?

Also, PS2 games were very easy to pirate. Here in Brazil a lot of people who bought a PS2 never purchased a original game.

But oh well, this is the excuse some people have to justify why the PS2 is still the best selling console.

This pirateing was rampant with the PS2... there has to be atleast 0.5 billion games on the PS2 pirated lol :p



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SuperJortendo 1 hour ago
Hiku said:

Nice to experience this update since I wasn't keeping track of sales back when PS2 was a current gen system.

Shikamo said:

 Honestly, I'm certain that PS2 sold more than 160m + but I just dont understand why Sony dont give us the exactly numbers :X

Probably to have a milestone number that looks nice.
160,731,027 doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Just noticed it says "one of" the biggest selling video game consoles of all time. You'd think they would want to boast about being number 1 unless they're a bunch of chickens and are worried about the big bad Switch passing them. 

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Shikamo 1 hour ago
Hiku said:

Nice to experience this update since I wasn't keeping track of sales back when PS2 was a current gen system.

Shikamo said:

 Honestly, I'm certain that PS2 sold more than 160m + but I just dont understand why Sony dont give us the exactly numbers :X

Probably to have a milestone number that looks nice.
160,731,027 doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

You're luck that we are talking about Sony and not Nintendo.

Just imagine, someone post on reddit that a mod from vgchartz said the exactly thing from a confidential thing from Nintendo, like the exactly day of Switch 2 launch and the exactly numbers, that Nintendo will ship from the stores, you dont know how you got  the exactly number because you are joking all the time and peoples distorces saying that you're a leaker from Nintendo and from someway that reach Nintendo and all is correct and the Ninjas go to Sweden and...

 



     


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