2.4 million PlayStation 2's in Australian homes

PS2 News | Buzz and Singstar also selling through the roof.

It looks like the demand for the PlayStation 2 is still there. We recently had a chance to speak to Sony Australia Managing Director Michael Ephraim on just how well the PlayStation 2 is going in Australia.

Michael revealed that Sony has an install base of 2.4 million PlayStation 2's, "and an install base of over 550,000 Singstar microphones and 300,000 Buzz!". He also revealed that we can expect to see more Buzz and Singstar games on the way. "It's like a jukebox, we've just got to keep feeding the jukebox and keep that thing alive. So, between that, platinum and the games that are coming out for younger kids from third parties like WALL-E and so on and the lower price of the PlayStation 2. We still think it's got a bit of a life in it. So we have definitely not taken our focus off the PlayStation 2. It's just appealing to a very different market now."

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4 Comments

Eyce

5 years ago

Taking in the Classic Sony Spin, this is what the following quote could mean:

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"and an install base of over 550,000 Singstar microphones and 300,000 Buzz!"

Singstar Microphones- Probably counting one pair as 2, making 275,000 Pairs of Microphones sold (Where's the physical game sales?)
"Buzz!" - Probably Controllers again considering the contents of the sentence (Then again it's Sony so it could be a completely irrelevant fact) Therefore probably 300,000/4, making it 75,000.

Why did I do this?

*shrugs*

Jellyfish

5 years ago

I think Buzz controllers are a single controller as in they don't come apart so that could be 300,000 units. Well done Sony, that's over 10% of the population.

doofus

5 years ago

Any way you look at it, even taking into account houses with multiple consoles or replacement consoles, its still a phenomenal number that have been sold, especially when you compare it to the size of our population...

troublemaker

5 years ago

Good to see Sony (& developers) getting some rewards for still supporting the PS2.

I think the PS2 is a good value proposition for families ie. $400 can buy a lot of gaming time.

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