PlayStation 3 sells 80M units: Not bad but far short of 150M PS2 sales

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2013
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

This is part of our ongoing series about games and trends of one of the most longest-lived eras in gaming’s history — the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 generation.

Sony announced today that the PlayStation 3 game console has sold more than 80 million units worldwide since its launch in 2006.

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