PlayStation Boss Jim Ryan Shows PS2 Offered 160 Million Objects Worldwide

Sony Interactive Leisure (SIE) President and CEO Jim Ryan has confirmed that PlayStation 2 sales reached a staggering 160 million models sold worldwide.

The quickly-to-be-retired gaming boss equipped an up in the past establish within the course of a chat on a recent episode of the Professional PlayStation Podcast. The dialog noticed him keeping his time at Sony whereas speaking relating to the firm’s route for the prolonged breeze.

When asked about what the 2000s dropped at mind, Ryan spoke back with, “The 2000s? That will likely be, I’d advise, 160 million, which is the amount of PS2s that we sold. A excessive watermark.”

Our closing substitute on PlayStation 2 sales build Sony’s 2d home console at 159 million models sold. Sony officially reported 150 million models moved in 2011, however the device remained in manufacturing for one other two years after that. Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad would later advise that sales lastly rose to 155.1 million by March 2012.

“Within the fiscal year ending March 2013 a total of 16.5 million PS3 & PS2 models were shipped,” Ahmad talked about in 2018. “PS2 became level-headed being shipped within the course of this length so the concepts we’re missing is how many models were PS2 and the absolute best intention many were PS3. Using PS3’s 80m promote in announcements as a files you may want to work backwards and within the end figure out that PS2 [sales from March 2012 through the end of its production] will deserve to had been terminate to 4m.”

The PlayStation 2 has prolonged dominated the list of exclusively-selling consoles of all time. With 160 million models sold, the next closest recreation-taking part in device is the Nintendo DS with 154.02 million models sold. After that is the Nintendo Swap at 139.36 million models sold. Not just like the two devices forward it, the Swap is level-headed in rotation as Nintendo’s run-to console. Despite the fact that rumors advise that will trade quickly, there’s no telling what Swap’s numbers will likely be by the tip of its lifecycle.

As for Ryan, his time at PlayStation will attain to an end in barely a pair of days. Starting April 1, this Monday, he’ll officially now no longer be with SIE, with Hiroki Totoki space to protect over as period in-between CEO that same day. The trade marks the tip of a 30-year breeze at PlayStation, so it became no shock to salvage varied figureheads adore Xbox’s Phil Spencer chime in to pay tribute.

For more on Ryan’s concepts on Sony’s gaming ancient previous, produce definite to take a look at out the list of his well-liked PlayStation video games, the place he named Monumental Theft Auto 3 as his well-liked PlayStation 2 recreation.

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