How many PlayStation 2 consoles were sold?

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160,000,000 consoles. The PlayStation 2 sold about 160 million units over a 13-year production run, still the best-selling games console of all time. It doubled as one of the cheapest DVD players on the market at launch, which is a large part of why it sold to households that were not buying a games machine. This is the all-time record holder, so it sets the ceiling that every other console question on this site is measured against. The best-selling machines cluster between a hundred and a hundred and sixty million, and the record sits at the top of that band. The DVD player detail in the explanation is the whole explanation of the record. At launch it was among the cheapest DVD players available, at a moment when that format was replacing videotape, so households bought it as a film player and got a games console attached. The record was won outside the games market. The thirteen-year production run is the other half. Consoles are normally replaced within five or six years; this one stayed in production long after its successor launched, selling into markets where it remained the affordable option. Cumulative sales reward longevity as much as peak popularity, which the Mario Kart question on this site shows from the software side.

Source	Sony Interactive Entertainment
Figure refers to	2013
Last checked	September 1, 2026
Unit	consoles

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