PS2 sales top fifty million

By Paul Presley

Posted on 17 Jan 2003 at 12:04

As of 15 January 2003, Sony's games-playing behemoth, the PS2, has found its way into some 50 million homes around the world.

Given that by the end of September 2002 the total figure was nearer forty million, it means that in the last three and a half months over 10 million PS2s have been sold.

The sales territory breakdowns are as follows: the US saw almost twenty-two million units being shipped State-side. Europe took the second spot with just over sixteen million units, and Japan claimed bronze with twelve and half million.

By way of comparison, September 2002 saw a grand total of ninety-two million PSones nestling under tellies and the like, a figure that had taken Sony some seven years to achieve. Obviously sales don't remain linear - sales will always plateau towards the end of a console's life - so direct performance comparisons are meaningless.

But whatever way you want to interpret these figures, they emphasise Sony's dominance of the gaming industry.