PS2 sold 8.5 million over xmas

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Tokyo, January 9, 2003 ? Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that, during the 2002 holiday selling season, PlayStation? and PlayStation?2 achieved the highest ever sell-through breaking all records in its history for both hardware and software worldwide.
In North America, more than 4 million PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems were sold through (*1) to consumers during the two months of November and December 2002, which is a 42 percent growth compared to the same period previous year.
During the third and the fourth weeks of December, sales exceeded 1.5 million units in only 14 days. Europe/PAL territories marked sales of over 3.4 million units, a 27% increase over the same period of the previous year. During the month of December, 2.4 million units were sold, marking a 50% increase over the same month in 2001. In Japan, 940,000 units were sold through during two months of November and December plus the first week of January 2003, a 27% decrease over the same period previous year. As a result, in 2 months, a massive total of 8.5 million units of PlayStation 2 were sold through to the customers worldwide, a 24% growth compared to the same period previous year.
A vast array of attractive and exciting new game titles were made available for PlayStation 2 all over the world during the holiday selling season, delivering numbers of million seller titles. In North America and Europe, major hit titles include Grand Theft Auto: Vice City from RockStar Games, James Bond 007: Nightfire, FIFA Soccer 2003, The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers, and Madden NFL 2003 from Electronic Arts, WWE Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth from THQ, Tony Hawk?s Pro Skater 4 from Activision, Kindgom Hearts from Square EA, and The Getaway, WRC II Extreme and SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs from Sony Computer Entertainment. In addition to such new titles, titles from the catalog such as Grand Theft Auto 3 from RockStar Games and Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec from Sony Computer Entertainment have continued to be sought after by consumers, being counted among the major hit titles for the holiday selling season 2002. In Japan, hit titles include Tales of Destiny 2 from Namco, World Soccer Winning Eleven 6 Final Evolution from Konami, UNLIMITED: SaGa from Square and SD Gundam GGENERATION NEO from Bandai. With a powerful lineup of games, worldwide shipments of PlayStation 2 game titles during the two months of November and December achieved a record breaking 52 million units, a 41% increase over the
same period previous year.
Numbers of customers connecting their PlayStation 2 to the networks are also making a steady increase in both Japan and North America. In North America, shipments of Network Adapter (Ethernet/modem) (for PlayStation 2) exceeded 400,000 units as of end of December, as active demand continues to grow. In Japan, shipments of PlayStation BB Unit reached 190,000 units (*2), and among the total of 20 titles scheduled to become available in the calendar year 2003, Nobunaga-no-Yabo Online from Koei and Minna-no-Golf Online from Sony Computer Entertainment are anticipated to become available this spring. Also in Europe, PlayStation 2 will start to connect to the networks from this spring.
After three full years from launch, PlayStation 2 has firmly established its position
as the standard entertainment platform in homes all over the world. As numbers of exciting game titles being continuously made available for this most favored platform, diffusion of PlayStation 2 is further accelerated, creating a virtuous cycle. Efforts devoted to further reinforcing production and sales plans throughout the year have largely contributed in winning the good results from the holiday selling season 2002.
In addition, PS one console, with worldwide shipments surpassing 92 million units
in the 9th year from launch, sold approximately 2 million units worldwide during November and December 2002 and its sales are still growing.

My advice to MS and Nintendo is put down their arms and take it in the ass, cuz resistance really is futile

[Bobs_Hardware]

Linkage?

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/030109e.pdf

Sonyaaaaa Jappon.

Thanks to Mr Greve for finding it..

Stonking !

Yeeeehaaawwww!

:alien:

[Kurt Angle]

The big difference also is that there was no stock shortages this year, compared to last year. A least that was the case were I am.

Originally posted by fastson
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

 

What\'s so exciting about that?

Originally posted by maindodi


What\'s so exciting about that?

because its one in the eye of the compentition & because it bolsters Sonys already dominant position as market leader.

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Eeeeehhhhhhhhoooooooooooohhhhhhh
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Wow... very good for Sony. Thanx for the info fastson, I was trying to know how many were sold

ouch, thats probably more than xbox sold in japan + states combined

Well, it looks like the PS2 is closing in on 50+ million.

Doing a lot better than what PSX did.

Still selling 2 million PSX??? WOW!!!!

How many XBOX or GC were sold btw?? any numbers??

[GmanJoe]

I didn\'t believe the Sony reps 2 years ago when they said they would sell 100 million PS2 in 5 years.

I think I\'m gonna be wrong.

"YA GOTTA BELIEVE!!!" Parappa

Originally posted by ooseven


because its one in the eye of the compentition & because it bolsters Sonys already dominant position as market leader.

[chewing the fat mode]
Eeeeehhhhhhhhoooooooooooohhhhhhh
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Surely you can see that competition is a good thing.  Without MS & Nintendo bringing out consoles PS2 would probably still cost £300, now its less than half that price.

I hope MS and Nintendo are successful and take a good slice of the console market, it will stop Sony becoming complacent, help keep prices low and generate innovation in console development.