Jim Ryan and SIEit is now finished. The CEO left Sony Interactive Entertainment this April 1, 2024, with a very mixed end to his career, between layoffs and games live-service who are flapping their wings. But the former boss leaves the manufacturer of PlayStation with a final statement that gets people talking.
Jim Ryan was a guest on the podcast blog PlayStation, to discuss many subjects. He took advantage of the event to assert that the PS2 has sold more than 160 million copies, a figure that is debatedas the analyst points out Daniel Ahmad. According to the official website of Sony, sales of the PS2 were 155 million units as of March 31, 2012, which is already enormous and makes it the best-selling console of all time, ahead of the Nintendo DS. But Jim Ryan’s statement is also official, except that tracking exact sales of the PS2 until its end of production in 2013 is complicated, Sony often mixes sales figures for PlayStation 2 and PS3, then already on the market for several years. In short, difficult, if not impossible, to navigate.
According to calculations, the PlayStation 2 has reportedly sold between 158.6 and 161.8 million copies since its launch in 2000there is no debate concerning the best-selling machine, the PS2 is ahead of the DS and it had the heyday of Sony in the 2000s. The PlayStation 5 has already sold 54.8 million units, but there is still a way to go to do better than the PS2. You can buy the PS5 from €499.60 on Amazon, Cdiscount And there Fnac.
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