Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) President and CEO Jim Ryan claims that the PS2 console sold 160-million units worldwide during a recent episode of the Official PlayStation Podcast. As for games, there were over 4,000 game titles released, with over 1.5 billion copies sold.
To put things into perspective, the 160-million PS2 consoles sold is nearly triple the combined sales of the Dreamcast, GameCube, and Xbox. What set Sony’s offering apart from the others was its Emotion Engine processor, which was co-developed with Toshiba and said to be more powerful than personal computers at the time.
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In the fiscal year ending March 2013 a total of 16.5 million PS3 & PS2 units were shipped. PS2 was still being shipped during this period so the info we’re missing is how many units were PS2 and how many were PS3. Using PS3’s 80m sell in announcements as a guide you can work backwards and ultimately work out that PS2 [sales from March 2012 through the end of its production] must have been close to 4 [million],” said Daniel Ahmad, Niko Partners analyst.
