PlayStation 2
PlayStation · Launched in 2000
- Family
- PlayStation
- Launch
- 2000
- Type
- Home console
- In the family
- #2 of 7 in launch order
- Units sold
- more than 160 million (as of 31/03/2012)
Among the devices in this family with a published figure, it is the #1 best seller of 6.
About the family
Sony launched the first PlayStation in Japan in December 1994, and it reached North America and Europe in September 1995. The PlayStation 5 came out on November 11, 2020. Besides consoles, the brand had two handhelds, the PSP and the PS Vita.
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Sources
Numbers checked against the sources below on 08/11/2026. These are the figures the companies publish for investors; Nintendo updates them every quarter, and Sony shows the latest figure released for each device, with different dates.