Total shipments worldwide of Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 2 console hit 60 million at the weekend, the company said in a statement yesterday.
The mark was reached on Saturday, September 6, and came almost exactly three years and six months after the console first hit the streets of Japan at midnight on March 4, 2000. The PlayStation 2 console reached that mark around one year and one month quicker than its predecessor, the PlayStation.
While total shipments continue to rise, the pace at which units are leaving the company’s factories is falling. It took four months for total shipments to rise from 40 million to 50 million but it took almost twice as long to ship the next 10 million units. Earlier this year SCEI’s parent, Sony, said it expects annual shipments in fiscal year 2003 to be 20 million units, against 22.5 million units last year.
By Martyn Williams
More Info Source: Digit Magazine Online
Sep 11, 2003, 06:43 PM
