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100 Million PS2s Shipped 61

Posted by Zonk from the prolific-console dept.
1up.com reports on a Sony release stating they've shipped 100 Million PS2 consoles. From the article: "PSOne took more than nine years to reach the same milestone Sony's achieved with PlayStation 2 in a little more than five. Sony says global shipments of PlayStation 2 break down to 40.65 million units in North America, 37.14 million in Europe and 22.22 million in all of Asia. The end result is Sony having a PlayStation brand that's moved roughly 1.86 billion units of hardware in a little over a decade, with plenty of time for PlayStation 2 to keep growing as the company makes the shift into next-generation in the coming year. "
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  • It really is pretty astonishing to ship 100 million *anything* let alone a game console. It sure makes that trumped up 10 million Xbox 360's by 2006 statement look like a long shot.
    • First of all, what makes it trumped up? Second of all, after reading a bunch of your posts, I have to ask, how much does Sony pay you?

  • So... how many of those were sold? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by MilenCent ( 219397 ) <johnwh@gmai[ ]om ['l.c' in gap]> on Wednesday November 30, 2005 @01:52PM (#14148627) Homepage
    I'm sure it's a lot what with their market-leading position, but after the PSP discrepency between units-shipped and units-sold, I think it's a valid question.

    And, 1.86 BILLION pieces of hardware? How many of those are consoles, and how many are things like memory cards?

    • How many are replacement units? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by LoverOfJoy ( 820058 ) on Wednesday November 30, 2005 @03:27PM (#14149561) Homepage
      And how many of the consoles sold are replacement consoles for the ones that broke?
    • Take this with a grain of salt, but I've heard that Sony counts replacement and demo kiosk units as "shipped". Only the consoles that are actually purchased by a consumer would be considered "sold". In that case, if little Billy sends his PS2 in for repair (even if it's still under warranty), Sony would count that as another "shipped" console.

      Does anyone know if this theory is true? I was skeptical at first, but the 100 million figure does seem a little high. I know that the PS2 is leading in sales,
  • That's 1.86bn items of software, not hardware. Quick envelope-maths goes pretty hard on the idea of having that much hardware, even if you include the PS units themselves.
    • 200 million consoles, several hundred million controllers, probably a few million hard drives, several hundred million memory cards, lots and lots of ethernet adapters...I don't think 1.86 billion is an unreasonable number. Granted, it's a little silly to count stuff that comes with it in the box, but it's probably technically correct.
      • It's still 8 pieces of hardware per shipped console. Even counting the included cables (1x TV hookup, 1x power) and controller only gives you 6 pieces of hardware for a console with 2 memcards and 2 controllers, the average punter will have less than that (and quite a bit of 3rd party gear that doesn't count for Sony).

    • Re:Doing the maths (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Red Flayer ( 890720 ) on Wednesday November 30, 2005 @02:22PM (#14148967) Journal
      Well, over the life of my PS1 I bought:

      (4) controllers
      (2) multi-taps
      (4) memory cards

      This doesn't include other hardware that shipped with the PS1, and it's probably a little above average (but 8-player FIFA was pretty fun).

      Over the life of my PS2 (so far) I have bought:

      (2) controllers
      (3) memory cards
      I didn't bother purchasing the hard drive or network adapter, and this is probably around average.

      So, including the units themselves, and not including additional hardware shipped with the base units, I've purchased 17 pieces of Sony hardware... from Sony. This doesn't include the knockoff disposable controllers and cord extenders I bought and cannibalized after they broke.

      So, 1.86bn pieces of hardware seems pretty darn attainable.
  • Okay, so you've got approximately 200 million PS1 and PS2s out there. Does that mean that every one of those has approximately 10 other pieces of hardware that goes with it?

  • Yeah, but... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by hawkbug ( 94280 ) <psxNO@SPAMfimble.com> on Wednesday November 30, 2005 @02:11PM (#14148850) Homepage
    I want to know how many of those units sold were replacements for the shitty first generation ones that died on people! I've had 3 PS1 consoles and also 2 PS2 consoles. Crappy lasers make crappy console parts.

  • Wow! (Score:4, Insightful)

    by chudgoo ( 812186 ) on Wednesday November 30, 2005 @02:43PM (#14149155) Homepage
    And thanks to Sony's faulty optics used in the PS2
    at least three of the 100-million are mine!
    (Only one, the redesigned PStwo, still works...for now)

    Just makes me wonder how many of those 100 million have been sent in for repair/refurb...

    • Re:Wow! (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Impotent_Emperor ( 681409 )
      My PS2 is currently broken and I'm not looking to replace it or get it fixed.
      • If it weren't for Metal Gear Solid 3 : Snake Eater I wouldn't have replaced mine either...

        Goddamn Konami...making exclusives for Sony...jerks...
      • I'm always on the lookout for spare parts. If you would like to sell it, drop me a line.
    • Gee, I bought my PS2 about 4 years ago, and hav abused it to no end (dropped water on it, kicked it in anger), and after playing 100+ games, it still runs. My controller doesn't vibrate too often, but that's because i've swung the thing against the floor more than a few times ( I really hated NBA 2K whatever). The only thing that is on the fritz is the memory card, but that's just because the kicking probably did something to it.

      I guess it's just a roll of the dice.

  • 1.8 Billion SOFTWARE, 200+ Million PS1+PS2s... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by javaxman ( 705658 ) on Wednesday November 30, 2005 @02:59PM (#14149351) Journal
    so, how much does it pay to be a slashdot editor, because I'm sure I'd actually read the linked article and check the story for obvious errors before submitting it ( yea, I'll be modded down, but isn't that what an "editor" is supposed to do? Half the damn posts here are about the story's "1.86 billion hardware" mistake... )

    Anyway, a key point here is ( or should be ) that there have been 1.86 *billion* Sony Playstation game disks sold. If the PS3 is backwards-compatible, that's a lot of people who have a lot of games they can *already* play on that system.

    Another key point is that the PS2 is going to continue to be sold for some time, and is easily the most successful console of all time, selling 100 million in 5 years and still going strong. I know people who will be getting thier *first* PS2 this Christmas, and believe me, they aren't thinking of it as a console near the end of it's life. I expect the PSone to be phased out sometime after the introduction of the PS3, but the PS2 is going to be around for a while yet.

  • 2/3rds of those systems were purchased by people whose PS2 died on them once or twice.

    I've purchased several (more than 2) and so have most of my friends.

  • I love my PS2. I'm actually on my second one - not because my first one died, but because I bought the PS2 slimline and gave my first one to a friend. It's all about the games. I've played games on the XBox (including a few that supported 1080i on my HD-TV) but they're too much like games on the PC. There's more variety and unique games on the PS2.

    Can't wait to play "We Love Katamari", or "Shadow of the Colossus" or even "Ratchet: Deadlocked". Last weekend, I went to our local GameStop and picked up

  • That should read "1.86 billion units of software"

  • Kudos to Sony (Score:2, Interesting)

    by fujiman ( 912957 )
    The PS2 has proven that game consoles are expendable, replaceable, and most importantly for them, re-purchaseable. It seems that if you keep your price even with the percieved value of replacement, you'll sell those things until you run out of plastic to make them.

    While I'd love a console that would last at least 5 years, the PS2 model is making me think they won't try that hard next go-round.

    Why sell something once to someone when you can sell it over and over (also see: music CDs)?

    Actually, I think

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