Paul Heslop wrote:
> Chris F wrote:
> 
>>Air Raid wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=1308148;s=rollingnews.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>PlayStation 2 shipments reach 100m
>>>Wednesday, November 30 07:41:42
>>>
>>>(BizWorld)
>>>
>>>Sony Computer Entertainment, the game unit of Sony Corp, said global
>>>shipments of its PlayStation 2 home game machine surpassed 100 million
>>>units yesterday.
>>>
>>>The product was launched in Japan in March 2000. Global shipments of
>>>PlayStation 2 included 40.65 million units to North America, 37.14
>>>million to Europe and 22.22 million to Asia, including Japan, it said.
>>>
>>
>>ok, so they've shipped 100 million units, but how many of those have
>>been replacement units for broken, knackered ps2's etc? i'd imagine a
>>good 30% at least of that figure, going by personal experience.
> 
> 
> and to be fairer still I have had to replace both my ps2 AND my xbox,
> same reason too, shit drives.
> 
from working for Game, while a few xbox's and cubes came back faulty, 
PS2's were far more commonly faulty.

you could argue that it was proportional to total sales, but the ps2 
certainly seemed to have a higher fault rate.