{"id":10033,"date":"2011-02-14T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"150-millionth-playstation-2-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10033-150-millionth-playstation-2-sold","title":{"rendered":"150 millionth PlayStation 2 sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Sony has announced on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStation\/status\/37029773515427841#\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;that it has officially sold 150 million PlayStation 2 consoles around the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation 2 was officially announced in 1999, and released in Europe and North America in 2000, which makes it just over 10 years old. Although the console&#8217;s lifespan was previously planned to span ten years, Sony has stated that it will continue to sell the console for as long as user demand persists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Guinness World Records Gamer&#8217;s Edition 2009, the top selling PS2 game to date is &nbsp;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which has shifted a hefty 17.33 million units.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sony announced in November 2009 that it had sold 147.6 million PS2s, which means 2.4 million units were sold in the last two months<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#039;s most successful console continue to sell over a decade after release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}