Money and cultureUnits sold
Best-selling video game console of all time
160,000,000 consoles
- Record holder
- PlayStation 2
What to remember
With 160 million units sold, Sony's PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time. It was first released in Japan on March 4, 2000, then in North America on October 26, in Europe on November 24 and in Australia on November 30.
A sixth-generation home console, it succeeded the original PlayStation and competed with Nintendo's GameCube, Sega's Dreamcast and Microsoft's Xbox. It featured a built-in DVD drive, and full backward compatibility with original PlayStation games and accessories gave it a launch library far larger than those of its rivals.
It was sold for more than twelve years. Even after the PlayStation 3 came out in 2006, it stayed in production, and new games kept coming out for several years.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of best-selling game consoles” (revision used 1373483872). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Evan-Amos, Photo licensed under Public domain (Wikimedia Commons).
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