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"30 million and counting..."

From Ananova.com (http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_584971.html)

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Sony reaches 30 million PlayStation 2 milestone

Sony says it has now shipped 30 million PlayStation 2 units worldwide.

It claims the milestone shows it is stretching its lead despite the arrival of rival machines.

Four million consoles have been sold since February.

President of the firm's American gaming subsidiary Kaz Hirai adds moves are afoot to improve the system.

He says hardware, software and online-gaming announcements will be made at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles later this month.

Ah, I thought it was just a Maths thing and left it at that....

Gonna get a Datel 64 megatit card?

Bonus wrote:
> Star Wars is outstanding, btw :D

Yep i haven't heard anyone have anything bad to say about this game.

ssxpro wrote:
> Hmm, I was trying to get my head round your tag. Is it something to do
> with X-Box, GC and PS2? Have you bought a GC? If so, which games, is
> it worth it, and whats Star Wars like? :D


Woohoo! The first to notice!

It's a bit of both. I got a 'cube today. And of course I now own all three machines. So I'm cubed in all senses of the word. I just thought "To the power of 3" would be a bit less cryptic, so I changed it and decided to see how long it would take for someone to notice, and who it would be!

I'd give you a prize, if I had one!

I got Rogue Leader and Super Monkey Ball with it, both of which I played on a friends 'cube, and both of which are great.

Star Wars is outstanding, btw :D

Hmm, I was trying to get my head round your tag. Is it something to do with X-Box, GC and PS2? Have you bought a GC? If so, which games, is it worth it, and whats Star Wars like? :D

Duh!

;-)

I removed the space, but are you sure the "From" is meant to be included?

"According to the figures released by the company today, the North American territory is in the lead for total penetration, with 11.3 million shipped units, followed by Asia with 9.9 million, and Europe with 8.8 million."

From http://gamespot.com/gamespot/ stories/news/0,10870,2864939,00.html

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A Majority of these PS2's have been sold in Japan though innit?

And I keep hearing alot of these are just used as DVD players...

someone give me the breakdown, all I know is that about 2 Million have sold in the UK.

If they keep this level up, and get the online stuff working, they could make the online ads for the dreamcast seem like a reality. Didn`t they claim the whole world could play at once? 6 billion players... and all that. Well, rather than just 4 people, the PS2 could get a lot closer to that target.

Unless you`re British.