For a long time it was believed that the PS2, at the end of its production, accumulated 155 million units sold worldwide. However, Jim Ryan, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, says it actually sold 160 million.
That is what he revealed in the most recent installment of the PlayStation podcast where he was interviewed before leaving the reins of the company, which will be effective on April 1, 2024.
In the podcast, Ryan was asked what he associates the 2000s with and he responded 'I would say 160 million, which is the number of PS2s we sold'.
Thus, he just released this information and taking into account the position he has, it should be taken as something official, although there are those who point out that in reality it is not 100% accurate.
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One of those who affirms this is the analyst Daniel Ahmad, who through Twitter made a series of calculations based on these statements.
Ahmad takes as a basis the existing PS2 and PS3 sales data from those years, which Sony itself shared at the time.
So you are using official data and not mere speculation or approximations. It is in the end that he obtains a result similar, but not the same, to what Jim Ryan mentioned.
At least for Daniel Ahmad the real number of units sold for the PlayStation 2 is between 158.6 to 161.8 million units.
So what Ryan said is in the range mentioned above. So far the PS2 is the best-selling console of all time.
The Nintendo DS, which is also a portable system, is at 154.02 million units, while third place corresponds to the Nintendo Switch, a portable and home system.
Switch, which is still being manufactured, is at 139.36 million. That is according to Nintendo's financial report from October to December 2023.
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