15 Mind-Blowing Facts About The PS2

4. Best-Selling Console

To this day, the Playstation 2 has sold over 157 million units, making it the best selling video game machine in history.

Compare that to the Nintendo Wii, which has shipped just over 100 million units, and the number becomes even more impressive. Perhaps customers are enthused by the vast library of games the PS2 has to offer, or maybe the kicker was DVD support, but whatever the case, Sony's vibrant machine kicked some serious video game market ass, knocking every other competitor out of the park with what they had up their sleeves.

Only in the past few years have sales slowed for the console, which had quite the life span.

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