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PS2 officially surpasses 160m sales, retaining its best-selling console crown
Nintendo's Switch might be nipping at its heels, but PlayStation continues to hold the crown as the best-selling consol…
Nintendo's Switch might be nipping at its heels, but PlayStation continues to hold the crown as the best-selling console of all time - with Sony now confirming the machine has shifted a whopping 160m units since launching all the way back in March 2000. PlayStation 2's last major sales milestone was trumpeted back in 2011, when Sony revealed the console had surpassed 150m sales- although it only took another year for that number to jump up by a further 5m. So while sales have undoubtedly slowed in the interim - not exactly surprising seeing as Sony hasn't produced a PS2 since January 2013 - the fact the console has managed to shift another 5m units figures were last shared is still pretty wild.
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