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From yesterday's gamasutra news page.
Game Boy Sales Exceed 150 million

A press release from Nintendo today, indicates that the company has surpassed US sales of 15 million Game Boy Advance consoles. According to the company's figures the portable console accounted for 40% of all gaming systems sold this year; with one unit sold every six seconds since the introduction of the format in June 2001. The Game Boy brand in general has now sold over 150 million units since its debut in 1989.

PlayStation 2 Shipments Pass 60 Million Mark

Not to be outdone today, in announcing impressive sales figures, officials from SCEI have revealed that cumulative world-wide shipments of the company’s PlayStation 2 console reached 60 million units on 6th September, 2003. This is 1.6 times more in volume compared to the same period after launch of the original PlayStation. In order to cope with the busy Christmas period the company will be increasing monthly production/shipment to more than 3 million units.
The cumulative shipments by territory (as of 6th September, 2003) are as follows:

  • Japan/Asia - 14.7 million units (launch date: 4th March, 2000)

  • North America - 26.42 million units (launch date: 26th October, 2000)

  • Europe/PAL - 19.44 million units (launch date: 24th November, 2000)

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