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[Striek]

Sony hit the milestone yesterday. 2.5M more to pass the PSOne

Sony Computer Entertainment, the game unit of Sony Corp, said global shipments of its PlayStation 2 home game machine surpassed 100 million units yesterday.

The product was launched in Japan in March 2000. Global shipments of PlayStation 2 included 40.65 million units to North America, 37.14 million to Europe and 22.22 million to Asia, including Japan, it said.

Source

Up from 96M on 2005/09/30 - source

Sales of the PS2 have really slowed down in Japan (as evidenced in recent MC threads), the early launch of X360 should do really well IMO (although they're probably going to ship less than what they sold for the Xbox launch if the 300k units for Europe is any indication).

(apologise if old)

 

[Kon Tiki]

That is a lot of broken PS2s.

*runs*

 

[Gek54]

That is a lot of broken PS2s.

*runs*

Imagine how massive the tie in ratio would be if no PS2s ever wore out.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

It only took 1 reply. :lol

 

[Striek]

It only took 1 reply. :lol

I was wondering how long it would take myself

 

[johnjohnson]

I think it's much more interresting that there are over 6200 unique titles for the PS2. That's what I call a huge software library. Add 14000 Playstation titles. That's effing impressing.

 

[Panajev2001a]

I think it's much more interresting that there are over 6200 unique titles for the PS2. That's what I call a huge software library. Add 14000 Playstation titles. That's effing impressing.

True .

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

I think it's much more interresting that there are over 6200 unique titles for the PS2. That's what I call a huge software library. Add 14000 Playstation titles. That's effing impressing.

Holy shit. Who programs all these games? Robots? They're taking over!

 

[McFly]

At how much is Xbox now? (shipments and unique games)

Fredi

 

[Ceb]

I wonder if Japan starting to come out of its economic slump means that sales will stay around this level for next-gen. I hope software sales won't drop further.

 

[xexex]

PS1....PS2..... that's alot of fucking ownage.


Nintendo: see how badly you FUCKED UP at Summer CES in Chicago in 1991 by stabbing Sony in the back ? dumbfucks. :lol

 

[123rl]

That's really impressive. Has it done that quicker than the PSOne got to 100m? It's only taken 5 years and I'm sure it took the PSOne longer than that.

Just out of interest, have any Nintendo machines sold 100m?

 

[Kroole]

PS1....PS2..... that's alot of fucking ownage.


Nintendo: see how badly you FUCKED UP at Summer CES in Chicago in 1991 by stabbing Sony in the back ? dumbfucks. :lol

No the bad part was to actually start the cooperation in the first place. Ending it was a necessity.

 

[sonycowboy]

That's really impressive. Has it done that quicker than the PSOne got to 100m? It's only taken 5 years and I'm sure it took the PSOne longer than that.

Just out of interest, have any Nintendo machines sold 100m?

1) It took the PSOne 9 1/2 years to hit 100M. The PS2 did it in 5 1/2.

2) PSOne is @ 102.5M units. The PS2 will probably pass it this year.

3) No Nintendo console has come close to 100M. If you add in the various gameboys, before the advance you'll crack 100, but individually, I don't think any make it. Jarrod probably knows for sure though.

 

[Fuzzy]

I think it's much more interresting that there are over 6200 unique titles for the PS2. That's what I call a huge software library. Add 14000 Playstation titles. That's effing impressing.

14K is PS + PS2, 6.2K is for the PS2 so that means 7.8K for the PS.

PlayStation brand software also seem to be reaching nearly uncountable highs. Currently, Sony lists over 14,000 PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles in its catalogue, of which 6,200 are designed specifically for the PS2. Obviously, this number counts local entries of the same game multiple times. As of September 2005, cumulative software shipments for the PlayStation family have reached 1.869 billion units.

Source: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/672/672660p1.html

That's really impressive. Has it done that quicker than the PSOne got to 100m? It's only taken 5 years and I'm sure it took the PSOne longer than that.

This feat marks a record for fastest computer entertainment product to reach 100 million units, Sony claims. The mark has been reached within five years and nine months of the PS2's Japanese release in March of 2000. The original PlayStation took nine years and six months to reach the mark and was, Sony states, the first computer entertainment platform to do so.

Just out of interest, have any Nintendo machines sold 100m?

No, the closest is the GBA which has reached 70.04 million units shipped as of September 30th.

 

[jj984jj]

No, the closest is the GBA which has reached 70.04 million units shipped as of September 30th.

It's not a wonder why they are trying to keep it alive longer.

 

[123rl]

Cheers

That's really impressive then. It's about to match its previous record, in just over half the amount of time. And unless it only sells 2m in the next four years, I think it's safe to say that it'll be the biggest selling console ever.

So, who wants to guess how many it will sell overall? I'm going for 125m, which is easily possible if it's been selling 20m a year for the last five years

 

[Solid]

Wow. Ownage

 

[Reilly]

wow, no pictures of Kenny K yet.

 

[DarienA]

wow, no pictures of Kenny K yet.

Yeah the one with him looking down at the camera(I think he has his hand out) would be perfect.

 

[SolidSnakex]

wow, no pictures of Kenny K yet.

 

[Apharmd Battler]

I think it's much more interresting that there are over 6200 unique titles for the PS2. That's what I call a huge software library. Add 14000 Playstation titles. That's effing impressing.

Really?! Seriously, I had no idea the library was that huge. Maye because a lot of the obsure games don't interest me. That does make you make you give pause. WOW!

 

[Deg]

Thats alot of consoles and software. something like nearly 2 billion software sold on PS2.

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

wow, no pictures of Kenny K yet.

ken am here hawaiian style. less pimp, more family.

 

[Thomper]

Very impressive. The PS2 is still $150 too, which means it can have multiple price-slashes. You've got 130, 100, 80, and 50, so I'd say atleast another 20 million if Sony milks the PS2 right. Add another redesign, and 150 million is certainly a possibility...

 

[ypo]

Yet some people think that Sony will lose 50+ million userbase next gen just like that. Fucking hilariouis.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

That's insane, it reached 100 million in one generational 5 years time!! It's not even at $99 yet! Can't believe Sony is going to pass the 100+ million plus benchmark they set with PS1 in their second try, this is unprecedented.

 

[sonycowboy]

Very impressive. The PS2 is still $150 too, which means it can have multiple price-slashes. You've got 130, 100, 80, and 50, so I'd say atleast another 20 million if Sony milks the PS2 right. Add another redesign, and 150 million is certainly a possibility...

130M is locked in. I think 140M is on the high range of possibility.

And somehow, we're supposed to believe that Sony is making mistake after mistake. I think ~some recognition of what they've accomplished and how difficult it will be to wrest control away is warranted here.

That being said, I'm extremely high on Microsoft's chances this next gen.

 

[Kintaco]

No the bad part was to actually start the cooperation in the first place. Ending it was a necessity.

Nintendo's mistake was going with cartridges instead of CDs on the N64. Once Square left it gave Sony credibility.

 

[jamesinclair]

I dont get it....havent they SOLD like 80 million? Thats the last number I heard.

How can 20 million PS2s be sitting around?

 

[DopeyFish]

Holy shit. Who programs all these games? Robots? They're taking over!

come on now, how hard is it to program a mahjongg game? =p

 

[gofreak]

What did the original Game Boy reach?

 

[ManaByte]

That is a lot of broken PS2s.

*runs*

Imagine how massive the tie in ratio would be if no PS2s ever wore out.

I still have a US launch system and a Japanese launch system and both work perfectly, fuckers.

 

[Kroole]

Nintendo's mistake was going with cartridges instead of CDs on the N64. Once Square left it gave Sony credibility.

Well I was merely pointing out the flaw in the cooperation with Sony. If you want to talk about every other mistake Nintendo has managed to do then we'd have little time for anything else^^

 

[ManaByte]

Nintendo's mistake was going with cartridges instead of CDs on the N64. Once Square left it gave Sony credibility.

Square leaving didn't have everything to do the carts vs CDs. They also weren't so happy with Nintendo's censorship. Square was with SCE before the PS was even released in Japan.

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

remember guys the industry id dying!




ITS DYING!!!!!!!!

 

[Deg]

Its funny watching the revbots and xbots saying Sony are doing everything wrong and are inferior etc. Then the sales figures come in.

 

[DarienA]

Its funny watching the revbots and xbots saying Sony are doing everything wrong and are inferior etc. Then the sales figures come in.

Everybody starts from zero next gen and MS has XBL and launching first as a trump card!

 

[Gek54]

Everybody starts from zero next gen and MS has XBL and launching first as a trump card!

That might be true if everyone had the memory of a goldfish.

 

[soundwave05]

Square leaving didn't have everything to do the carts vs CDs. They also weren't so happy with Nintendo's censorship. Square was with SCE before the PS was even released in Japan.

That's small potatoes. Squaresoft is a pretty conservative company, no doubt they probably felt a little uncomfortable having to leave Nintendo. People forget up until that point in Japan Nintendo WAS video games. There was never really a credible competitior, so as a third-party being forced to go somewhere else had an inherint level of risk involved.

The CD-ROM/cartridge issue and the business model headaches it caused third parties along with Nintendo's belief that the 64DD would be enough to compensate for no-CD-ROM is what killed Nintendo.

You put Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil on the N64 early on next to Super Mario 64, Wave Race 64, Mario Kart, and Zelda: OoT and Sony would've gotten it handed to them, especailly in Japan.

It's a pretty minor miracle that the N64 managed to sell 33 million units with basically Acclaim as their only major third party.

In the end, Nintendo should have compromised ... added a CD drive in addition to the cart port (the Saturn did this) and gone back to the original $250 launch price to accomodate the CD drive. This would have been enough to appease most any third party and let Miyamoto have the cart format for games like Super Mario 64.

 

[Leonsito]

The secret of this success is to be the first console treated as any other domestic gadget, I have visited friends of my fathers that had in his houses a Ps2 near to the TV, and they never have played videogames.

 

[soundwave05]

The secret of this success is to be the first console treated as any other domestic gadget, I have visited friends of my fathers that had in his houses a Ps2 near to the TV, and they never have played videogames.

Somewhat .... yes.

But the real secret of success is simply having the most games, the most developer support, and the most high-profile titles.

That formula really hasn't changed from the NES.

Actually in North America, the amount of households that have a game console today hasn't significantly risen from the NES-era. The reason why more game hardware is sold is more of those gaming households buy more than one game machine, but the audience overall really hasn't grown.

 

[Leonsito]

Somewhat .... yes.

But the real secret of success is simply having the most games, the most developer support, and the most high-profile titles.

That formula really hasn't changed from the NES.

Actually in North America, the amount of households that have a game console today hasn't significantly risen from the NES-era. The reason why more game hardware is sold is more of those gaming households buy more than one game machine, but the audience overall really hasn't grown.

Well, at least in Spain, the Snes and Nes were treated as "a product for minories", while the PS1 and PS2 are a "first-need" product, the marketing campaign from Sony, and the (very good) image that Sony left from the PSOne are another reasons for this success IMO.

 

[Kon Tiki]

I still have a US launch system and a Japanese launch system and both work perfectly, fuckers.

What is the difference between a broken unit and a repeat purchase? You are still one person.

 

[DarienA]

That might be true if everyone had the memory of a goldfish.

Wait... what?

 

[={<SMOKE>}=]

Well, at least in Spain, the Snes and Nes were treated as "a product for minories", while the PS1 and PS2 are a "first-need" product, the marketing campaign from Sony, and the (very good) image that Sony left from the PSOne are another reasons for this success IMO.

wth does "a produt for minories" mean?

 

[Leonsito]

wth does "a produt for minories" mean?

I mean, only a few people had a console in the early 90s, it was a child thing, an underground gadget, but with the Playstation family everyone talks about it, you see it mentioned on the TV shows, on every shop it's the first line, you can talk with people with 50 years old about the Playstation because they know of it existence..

I'll be more graphic, when I was child and I mentioned the Nintendo and Sega machines to anyone..

But now if you mention the PS2..

:lol

 

[Oblivion]

Not trying to troll, or nothing, but it says only "shipped". If we were to go by what Sony says than they already won the handheld war months ago too. :lol

 

[Pimpwerx]

Not trying to troll, or nothing, but it says only "shipped". If we were to go by what Sony says than they already won the handheld war months ago too. :lol

Sales trackers have a built in margin of error that is never discussed. At least, it's never answered. Shipping totals count as money for Sony anyway, so they give shipped. It should probably be assumed that as long as shipments continue to increase, that systems are still selling. It was clear when the DC stopped selling, when months would go by, and Sega was still announcing shipment of like 5M units.

In any case, Sony won the handheld war before it even started. Yes, I di expect it to still outsell the DS, handsomely even. But it's not gonna happen as long as Sony keeps pretending their name still warrants premium pricing. PEACE.

 

[imastalker co.]

one word. domination.

more ken pics please.