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PS2 Worldwide Sales reach 70 Million - PS2

15th January 2004, 8:02pm
Today Sony Computer Entertainment announced that the worldwide shipment of its Playstation 2 has reached more than 70 million units. Here is the break up from its press release
    PlayStation 2 Cumulative Shipments by Territory (as of January 13, 2004)

    - Japan (including Asia)
    16.18 million units (launch date: March 4, 2000)

    - North America
    29.26 million units (launch date: October 26, 2000)

    - Europe/PAL
    24.56 million units (launch date: November 24, 2000)

70 Million units worldwide, now thats a lot of units in anyone's books, and with cumulative software shipment exceeded 500 million units worldwide to date, on rough figures thats about 7 titles per ps2 owner.
by Robert Gardner