shipments of PlayStation2 reaches 100 million

Air Raid

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Nov 30, 2005, 6:07:21 AM11/30/05

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PlayStation 2 shipments reach 100m
Wednesday, November 30 07:41:42

(BizWorld)

Sony Computer Entertainment, the game unit of Sony Corp, said global
shipments of its PlayStation 2 home game machine surpassed 100 million
units yesterday.

The product was launched in Japan in March 2000. Global shipments of
PlayStation 2 included 40.65 million units to North America, 37.14
million to Europe and 22.22 million to Asia, including Japan, it said.

Chris F

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Nov 30, 2005, 6:18:42 AM11/30/05

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ok, so they've shipped 100 million units, but how many of those have
been replacement units for broken, knackered ps2's etc? i'd imagine a
good 30% at least of that figure, going by personal experience.

Paul Heslop

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Nov 30, 2005, 10:52:44 AM11/30/05

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and to be fairer still I have had to replace both my ps2 AND my xbox,
same reason too, shit drives.

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Nov 30, 2005, 10:54:20 AM11/30/05

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yeah i was going to say, probably about 30% of those are replacement units
for defective product lol

Chris F

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Nov 30, 2005, 11:01:10 AM11/30/05

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Paul Heslop wrote:
> Chris F wrote:
>
>>Air Raid wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=1308148;s=rollingnews.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>PlayStation 2 shipments reach 100m
>>>Wednesday, November 30 07:41:42
>>>
>>>(BizWorld)
>>>
>>>Sony Computer Entertainment, the game unit of Sony Corp, said global
>>>shipments of its PlayStation 2 home game machine surpassed 100 million
>>>units yesterday.
>>>
>>>The product was launched in Japan in March 2000. Global shipments of
>>>PlayStation 2 included 40.65 million units to North America, 37.14
>>>million to Europe and 22.22 million to Asia, including Japan, it said.
>>>
>>
>>ok, so they've shipped 100 million units, but how many of those have
>>been replacement units for broken, knackered ps2's etc? i'd imagine a
>>good 30% at least of that figure, going by personal experience.
>
>
> and to be fairer still I have had to replace both my ps2 AND my xbox,
> same reason too, shit drives.
>

from working for Game, while a few xbox's and cubes came back faulty,
PS2's were far more commonly faulty.

you could argue that it was proportional to total sales, but the ps2
certainly seemed to have a higher fault rate.

Paul Heslop

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Nov 30, 2005, 11:19:57 AM11/30/05

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Can't argue with that Chris. I will say, though, that my xbox, with
the dreaded thompson drive, has the shorter life before it showed
problems. Seemed to be as games became more advanced the machines
virtually gave up. I can still run either but they are hit and miss.
San Andreas will kill the ps2 stone dead. Forza seemed to be the push
too far for the xbox.

Do we dare hope these problems will be ironed out for the new systems?