PlayStation 2 reaches 100 million units shipped

PS2 News | That's a lot of units.

Sony have announced today that the cumulative worldwide shipments of the Playstation 2 have reached 100,000,000 as of the 29th of November, 2005.

This is an incredible figure, and comes only five years and nine months since the Playstation 2 launched in Japan in March, 2000. The original Playstation was the first console to reach 100,000,000 shipments and this took the little grey box nine years and six months in comparison.

Sony even included the territory shipments which demonstrate that PAL regions aren't that small in contrast to Japan and America.

PlayStation 2 Cumulative Shipment by Territory:

Japan 22.22 million units
North America 40.65 million units
Europe/PAL 37.14 million units
Worldwide Shipment: 100.01 million units

This announcement comes at an extremely interesting time, with the XBox 360 having just launched in the United States and launching in Europe within the next twelve hours.

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4 Comments

KickyFunkFresh

6 years ago

I wonder how many of those are dead

ObsoletE

6 years ago

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The original Playstation was the first console to reach 100,000,000 shipments

i would have assumed that the NES shipped more than that.

David

6 years ago

Nah, NES/famicom only sold about 80 million.

The PS2 has now overtaken the NES as the most sold console within it's own generation ie most before it was made obsolete by it's own company. The NES sold about 65ish million by the time the SNES was out, but the PS1 hadn't quite reached that when the PS2 launched - although it's sold a whopping 40 million AFTER the PS2 was out!

PS2 has blown them both out of the water though.

Sony should probably be thanking Microsoft for dropping $4 billion just to split the second place market with Nintendo. If it wasn't for the XB (and given the ammount of money it's lost, it shouldn't really exist in any fair market), the GC would have been a clear 'more powerful second console' like the N64 was, and would maybe have gained some momentum against the PS2 in the way that neither the GC or XB have been able to (since both have sold only 1/5 the PS2).

The same number of consoles have been sold this generation as were last - even a lot less if you count DC as last gen - so the market has not grown. It's just that a far higher percentage of consoles were from one company.

ZNMS

6 years ago

This announcement comes at an extremely interesting time, with the Xbox 360 having just launched in the United States and launching in Europe within the next twelve hours.

Coincidence? Probably not.

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