Summary
Earlier this week,PlayStationbroke downits entire history on a single website for its upcoming 30th anniversary, which included a timeline of each console, how it performed, and how much of an impact it had on many of our lives. It was on this website that it wasconfirmed for the first time that over 160 million PS2s have been soldsince its release, which is a mighty amount.
A lot of people don’t quite believe that number though, and some rather cynicalNintendofans believe that PlayStation’s official total keeps rising whenever theNintendo Switcheven thinks about overtaking the system in sales. It’s led many to seek out just how many PS2s have actually been produced, and it’s led people to an image of a PS2 that seems to have been especially made to celebrate the halt of manufacturing back in 2013.
This particular PS2 was first shared bya Twitter user called DoctorJopa12in an effort to try and prove the amount of PS2s that have been produced. It states on the console itself that it was made to celebrate the PS2s lifespan, and that a grand total of 160,636,885 consoles were made between January 2000 and March 2013, though questions were raised about the authenticity of the console.
Ex-PlayStation Exec Confirms Total Number Of PS2s Produced
After another user called Pierre485_shared an image of ex-PlayStation chief Shawn Layden’s special PSP as a place where the text could have been lifted from, none other than Layden himself waded into the conversation to clear things up. In a couple of follow-up tweets, Layden claims that the PS2 console in question “looks legit”, as well as the PS2 production number on the side.
Layden had been working at Sony since 1987, going on to work as the chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment from 2014 to 2019. If there’s anyone that would know the production number of a console as popular as the PS2, it would be him, which means we now have a confirmed number for the amount of PS2s PlayStation put out into the world.
Of course, we don’t really know if all 160,636,885 of those produced consoles were sold, but if PlayStation itself claims it sold over 160 million, then the real number must be inbetween. It also means that if Nintendo wants that all-time record, it will have to shift more than 160,700,00 units between now and the end of production. Time will only tell whether it can manage it or not.
