Jim Ryan’s time because the chief government officer of Sony Interactive Leisure and as head-honcho of all the pieces PlayStation is formally over.
He leaves behind a close to 30-year profession with PlayStation that started earlier than the primary console even launched, whereas banging his chest about how profitable PS5 has been and will proceed to be.
He’s additionally leaving whereas stirring the pot one final time, and bringing an outdated debate again to life, as in an ‘exit interview’ of kinds with the Official PlayStation Podcast, Ryan claimed that the PlayStation 2 has offered 160 million items.
What’s been debated for years isn’t whether or not or not the PS2 is definitely the very best promoting console, as a result of official numbers from PlayStation and Nintendo, who maintain second place with their DS present a transparent winner.
What’s debated is simply what number of PS2’s had been truly offered ultimately, because it was a console plagued with
“160 million, which is the variety of PS2s that we offered,” Ryan casually said on the podcast, a determine that was given no push-back from podcast host Sid Shuman.
The final reported official numbers we had for the PS2 declare the console has offered upwards of 155 million items, which already makes it the very best promoting console of all-time, a hair forward of the Nintendo DS.
This new quantity now provides one other 5 million items, one thing that’s reasonably troublesome to correctly validate, as Niko Companions director of analysis and insights, Daniel Ahmed, factors out.
In a publish on Twitter, Ahmed breaks down the gross sales historical past of the PS2, which might very effectively sit at 159 million by his rely, a finest estimate from the unknown variety of consoles offered within the 9-month interval between the final official report of 155 million and when the console was truly discontinued.
Ahmed’s remaining round-about determine that places the console anyplace between promoting 158.6 million-161.8 million items is simply what it seems like – an estimate.
Until Sony had been to really dig up the variety of PS2’s offered, and updates the official stats, we’ll seemingly must take Ryan at his phrase. You might additionally, as Ahmed factors out, be fairly snug in saying it offered simply shy of 160 million.
Both means, the PS2 continues to be the best-selling console of all time. Until Nintendo begins to rely no matter its subsequent console will likely be as a part of the ‘household’ of Nintendo Change consoles, and provides the numbers for its subsequent {hardware} system on high of the Change’s 139.36 million already offered.
If that occurs, this debate is certain to spark up once more, as followers will most likely proceed debating which truly offered essentially the most.
Supply – [Daniel Ahmed on Twitter, Official PlayStation Podcast]
