PlayStation 2 Reaches 100 Million Milestone

[TomO]

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 2 (http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/1926/) has reached worldwide cumulative shipments of 100 million units, making it the fastest selling computer entertainment platform to reach this figure.

As of November 29, 2005 the PlayStation 2 has reached 100 million units worldwide, and has achieved this figure in record time, after only 5 years and 9 months. The original PlayStation took 3 years and 9 months longer to reach the same figure, and was the first computer entertainment platform ever to reach the 100 million mark. There is currently over 14,000 PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles, with 6,200 for the PlayStation 2 alone. As of September 2005 cumulative software shipments had reached a massive 1.869 billion units.

Full story (http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/1926/)

[EvilBob46]

Well, in all fairness, the console has had a good run this year.

Games I've really enjoyed recently:

God of War
Shadow of the Colossus
Resident Evil 4 PS2
Dragon Quest VIII
Guitar Hero (I kid you not!)
Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal

[fitbabits]

And with a failure rate of 15%, that means that Sony has shipped 15 MILLION faulty PlayStation 2s! Shocking, appalling, pathetic, etc... Help me out here. :rolleyes:

[Orz]

18.69 games per console shipped? I'd be surprised if the average PS2 library was more than 10-12 games. Even if it was 16 games, that's two hundred and sixty nine million unsold games crammed in warehouses and floating around.

[EvilBob46]

And with a failure rate of 15%, that means that Sony has shipped 15 MILLION faulty PlayStation 2s! Shocking, appalling, pathetic, etc... Help me out here. :rolleyes:

What's the failure rate for the original Xbox, especially the ones with the shitty Thomson drive? Just curious.

[fitbabits]

What's the failure rate for the original Xbox, especially the ones with the shitty Thomson drive? Just curious.

According to Solstice Magus...

The origional X-Box is thought to have a failure rate of 3 -> 3.5, which is acceptable in comparison to the PS2...

[bjornbarspingvinen]

say what you want about sony, but gaming is alot less nerdy after sonys gaming machines. I would say they made gaming a legit entertainment form. Reaching that many homes surely payed off.

[bapenguin]

I was 2 of those 100 million! That's 0.00000002%!!!!!!

[Reanimated]

Caveat:

50 Million of which are now sitting at the bottom of landfills with faulty drives.

[Chalex]

18.69 games per console shipped? I'd be surprised if the average PS2 library was more than 10-12 games. Even if it was 16 games, that's two hundred and sixty nine million unsold games crammed in warehouses and floating around.I have ~120 PS2 games, some people bring the average up.

[Orz]

I have ~120 PS2 games, some people bring the average up.

For every person with that many games... or even say 20ish... I'd dare say there are another 10-20 people with just a handful of games.

[NACIONAL]

I have ~120 PS2 games, some people bring the average up.

120*~$50.... = 6000 bucks...

damn, that is a lot of money invested only on games.

[mister_slim]

I own better than 18 games for every system I have, other than the DS (so far).

[Zurik]

I'm probably the luckiest person when it comes to the PS2, I've had a unit from launch that still runs fine, although a little slow when loading compared to the newer models.

[brill0227]

People who make the argument that the consoles die out quickly are doing their cause a disservice. The same amount of games are sold no matter how many consoles are defective. So if there are only 75 million functional PS2s out there, that means it's closer to a staggering 25 games for every functional PS2.

And as most people know, you make your money on games, not consoles. 100 million is quite remarkable no matter how you cut it.

[MajSheppard]

far less impressive when you take into account 20 million of those are people who needed to replace their unit due to breakage. That is right 20% failure rate, I hate being the guy who has to tell the customer sony doen't care that the dvd laser lens in your unit is busted and they would like it if you bought a new one.

[SMES]

far less impressive when you take into account 20 million of those are people who needed to replace their unit due to breakage. That is right 20% failure rate, I hate being the guy who has to tell the customer sony doen't care that the dvd laser lens in your unit is busted and they would like it if you bought a new one.

I've recently learned that many disc read error type problems are not due to the laser. In my PS2, it was the motor that spins the disc which was dying. It would play DVDs but sometimes crash when loading, and it wouldn't play 90% of CD games (PS1, PS2, Music, etc).

I'd guess that all those tutorials everyone heard about people cracking open their PS2s to clean the laser were wrong. Granted some people experianced an improvement from getting that gunk off the laser, but for example my friend opened his and did that and it got better for about a week and then got worse. Turns out his motor had to be replaced.

[brill0227]

far less impressive when you take into account 20 million of those are people who needed to replace their unit due to breakage. That is right 20% failure rate, I hate being the guy who has to tell the customer sony doen't care that the dvd laser lens in your unit is busted and they would like it if you bought a new one.

Apparently you can't read an entire post.

[Achilles]

I'm probably the luckiest person when it comes to the PS2, I've had a unit from launch that still runs fine, although a little slow when loading compared to the newer models.I've also got an old one. It was returned on launch day as defective so I brought it home and plugged it in, which was apparently the magic charm that it needed to work. And it's been working ever since.