World Record Nomination 18: Play Station 2 - The Best Selling Video Game Console
(WorldKings) A home video game console now is one of the most popular entertaining equipments in many families. You can play game with your children, other family members and your friends with a video game console.
There are many video game console manufacturers on the market today, and the best-knowns are Sony (PlayStation), Microsoft (Xbox), Nintendo (Wii), Sega (Dreamcast),... and the competition between them is relentless. However, Sony is considered as the biggest game console manufacturer and their game console brand, PlayStation, is among the best selling ones.
PlayStation series was first introduced on December 3, 1994 in Japan. The first product of the series, the original PlayStation, was the first game console to ship 100 million units after 9 years and 6 months from its initial launch.
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A PlayStation 2 video game console system (en.wikipedia.org)
The original PlayStation was a big success of Sony, but its successor, the PlayStation 2, was even more popular. The number of PlayStation 2 sold units reached over 155 million as of December 28, 2012. It was the biggest sales volume for a game console in history, beating other famous name like Nintendo DS, Game Boy, Wii, Xbox 360,...
After PlayStation 2, the PlayStation series continued to be successful with PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. There were over 84 million PlayStation 3 game consoles were sold as of November, 2014. Play Station 4 was released in the late 2013 and after 2 years, its sales volume reached 20,2 million units.
Despite the success of its successors, PlayStation 2 is unrivalled for its record sales volume. It takes time to have another game console that can challenge the 155-million-units-sold record of PlayStation 2.
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The PS2 has brought fun and happiness to millions families in the world (jaehakim.com)
World Record Union - Worldkings are still collecting more information from many sources and it is our pleasure listening to everybody's comments to have a full evaluation on the record nomination: "PlayStation 2 - The best selling video game console."
WORLD RECORDS UNION - WORLDKINGS
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