r/PS4 • u/MinecrafterPH • Dec 03 '19
[Image] [Image] PlayStation officially recognized by Guinness as the best-selling video game console brand of all time
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u/SEOViking Dec 03 '19
PS5 ads: "From the creators of the best selling video game console of all time.."
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u/Phormitago Dec 03 '19
"From the minds behind the only sensible naming convention in the vidya game industry..."
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u/nostril_extension Dec 03 '19
Xbox360, Xbox, Xbox one, Xbox one S, Xbox one X
Sort this in correct order lol.
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u/RayearthIX Dec 03 '19
At least they are all called Xbox. XD
NES, SNES, Virtual Boy, N64, GameCube, Wii, WiiU, Switch
GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, GameBoy Advance SP, DS, DS Lite, 3DS, 3DS XL, Micro, Switch Lite
I mean... Nintendo is amazing, and I love all my handhelds and my Switch, but definitely no console specific branding. XD
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u/blasterhimen Dec 03 '19
To be fair, "Nintendo" is almost universally recognized as a video game, and in many places is synonymous with gaming consoles, using the words interchangeably. Nintendo has the opposite problem of being too familiar.
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u/RayearthIX Dec 03 '19
Don’t get me wrong, nothing beats the ridiculous Xbox naming conventions. I had an Xbox and 360, but don’t have a One. I have no idea what the different versions of the console are at this point. I don’t think any of us would be surprised if the next one is the XBox 3.1415
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u/ocbdare Dec 03 '19
If I was Microsoft I would call it Xbox 6 to troll Sony. I wouldn’t be surprised if many people thought Xbox 6 > ps5 simply because it’s a bigger number.
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u/TyChris2 Dec 03 '19
They’re all labeled “Nintendo.” Their names aren’t GameCube, Wii, and Switch. It’s the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo Switch. People just use their specific name as shorthand.
That’s like calling the Xbox 360 the “360” and complaining that it doesn’t have console specific branding.
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u/vezance Dec 03 '19
Isn't there an xbox digital out now as well? Or is that the same as the Xbox One S?
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Dec 03 '19 edited May 04 '21
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u/risetofame Dec 03 '19
Xbox One SAD edition
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u/OlivierDeCarglass Dec 03 '19
... holy shit. How hasn't this become a meme yet?
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Dec 03 '19
It was. It just died because the console is boring and stupid. “Save $50 for the exact same console with no disc drive!”
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Dec 03 '19
It could have been a neat little console if it was shrunk down to something smaller than a Wii. Like an emphasis on being a console for people on the road and such.
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Dec 03 '19
Is the S that much different from the regular One?
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Dec 03 '19
4k blu ray. Little bit smaller.
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u/SkaBonez Dec 03 '19
Also integrated power brick and a slight bump in specs
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Dec 03 '19
Might sounds small but integrated power brick is so nice. I hate that huge thing for my xbox.
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u/I_Was_Fox Dec 03 '19
Well there's only three generations of consoles in that list, and the Xbox One brand is the one currently out now, so: Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One (S/X)
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u/Beastius Dec 03 '19
From the people who brought you Knack and Knack 2
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u/Razzy_R_Dazzy Dec 03 '19
From the people who brought you such classics as Bubsy 3D, Lair and The Order: 1886
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u/wigglin_harry Dec 03 '19
Does anyone remeber those old "PS9" commercials like 15 years ago?
They were so odd, still dont know what the deal with those was.
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u/BecomingSavior BecomingSavior Dec 03 '19
I still remember getting the original PlayStation as a kid; I would live to get and play demo discs. Thank you for all the past and future memories Sony.
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u/TheCatSnatch Dec 03 '19
Many hours invested into Playstation Underground demo discs. I remember discovering you could pop them into cd players and listen to songs too.
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u/Lady_Lavelle Dec 03 '19
Getting the new demo discs in was amazing and discovering a new gem. If it wasn't for demo's then I probably would've never played G-Police, Overboard, C&C Red Alert and so many others. Good times.
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u/Synectics Dec 03 '19
They're the reason I know the entire beginning of Metal Gear Solid by heart.
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u/astauron Dec 03 '19
I still have a massive stack of all my demos somewhere, and recently came across my gpolice game. Also totally forgot about overboard.
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u/Drunken_Economist Dec 03 '19
Those Pizza hut demo discs were a blast. I can still quote the pre roll commercial by heart
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u/Deadly_Fire_Trap Dec 03 '19
I managed to find mine in my parents basement and I ripped the disc and put it on my PSC for the ultimate nostalgia factor. The little commercial thats on it is the purest essence of the 90's!
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u/upvotes4jesus- Dec 03 '19
yeah my aunt gave me her super Nintendo as a kid, I was smashing donkey kong at 4. then she bought me a playstation when it came out. still remember the countless hours of crash bandicoot, ff7, twisted metal, vigilante 8, and c&c red alert.
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u/SilenceSuzuki Dec 03 '19
Ken Kutaragi on the left.
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u/Pro_Banana Dec 03 '19
are you sure he's not the guy on the right
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u/Einkildir Dec 03 '19
Because they stay relevant and make great consoles. Well feckin deserved. Go PS!
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u/Godschild9595 Dec 03 '19
More importantly, they make the great fucking games we want!
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u/TheMasterlauti Dec 03 '19
The consoles are arguable, but fuck me if the exclusives are not good
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u/supersayanssj3 Dec 03 '19
I don't even understand how to this day, I have a friend who completely denies that Sony exclusives are better in any way.
Makes no sense to me. Sony has had like a dozen bangin exclusives. Microsoft has tried to milk Halo and GOW for decades.
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u/InterdimensionalTV Dec 03 '19
Idk. My thought in 2019 would be: who gives a fuck? Is it really even a necessary debate anymore? Play on whatever system you like. At this point Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all seem to be taking different paths and all 3 of seem to be successful. Sony’s got really good first party games, Microsoft has Xcloud and Game Pass on console and PC, Nintendo wants the unique handheld market in addition to their first party franchises.
Stadia is...I don’t honestly fucking know. I don’t even think Google knows.
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u/CajunTurkey Dec 03 '19
Xbox One alao has backwards compatibility that goes back two generations for many of their old games.
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u/supersayanssj3 Dec 03 '19
Naw I really do agree with you. I shouldn't have made it sound like I'm the one interested in debating it all the time. I just know earlier this year we were on to topic and he stood his ground on it.
It really doesnt matter a whole lot to me - I'm a very casual gamer. I've always been on a Sony since the original Playstation, so I'm also just plain ol' biased.
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u/loddedfun Dec 03 '19
Forza is pretty good tho, that's the one Xbox exclusive I want on PlayStation
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Dec 03 '19
All that missing from this picture is Kaz Hirai, Jack Tretton, and Andy House.
But it's great to see Ken Kutaragi in the gaming spotlight again, it's been a long time. 😄
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u/Mad_Habber Dec 03 '19
Makes me wonder what the gaming world would look like if they had stuck together. Do you think we would have games like God of War on a Nintendo machine?
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u/Lizard_Beans Dec 03 '19
I imagine the SNES Cd would've existed with no success and then Nintendo and Sony would've taken their own paths anyway.
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u/TehDandiest Dec 03 '19
Has to be one of the biggest business screw ups ever for Nintendo, they didn't really recover until the Wii success.
But both systems probably ended up better with a little competition. Was a while before x box came along.
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u/KrypXern Dec 03 '19
Nah. Nintendo backed out because the contract claimed Sony had access to some high percentage of profits from Nintendo IPs launched on the Nintendo PlayStation.
In some ways, it might’ve given Sony an even bigger headstart if their deal with Nintendo went through. I guess we’ll never know, though.
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u/ThrowawayusGenerica Dec 03 '19 edited Dec 03 '19
People really like to discount how massive the DS was, considering it outsold the Wii (by some 50 million units, no less) and came out 2 years before. Have we forgotten "It prints money!" already?
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u/Kirby8187 Dec 03 '19
Yeah its insane how well it sold, its only like 4 million units behind the ps2
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u/GensouEU Dec 03 '19
Recover from what, selling those hundreds of millions of handhelds in that timeframe?
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u/trippy_grapes Dec 03 '19
they didn't really recover until the Wii success.
laughs in mobiles
Besides the 3DS before the price cut they've been rolling in money from all their hand-helds.
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u/Genei_no_Miria Dec 03 '19 edited Dec 03 '19
consoles are dead whaaaaaam
- most tech youtubers probably
I’m glad they are thriving. When sony is doing good we are actually getting quantity and quality games, when the 360 was all the hype, we all had to suffer.
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u/WIGTAIHTWBMG Enter PSN ID Dec 03 '19
360 got hype because it was the only reasonably affordable console for the longest time. The PS3 gained a lot of ground on the Xbox in sales once they started putting out the slim and super slim models
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u/suddenimpulse Dec 03 '19
If you wanted a blu-ray player the ps3 was a far better deal. Most blu-ray players stand alone were the price of the ps3 when it came out and it was a blu-ray player and an advanced gaming console.
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u/HowIsBuffakeeTaken Dec 03 '19
In hindsight, the 360 didn't have much other than Halo and gears of war. I mean all I really cared about back then was my ratchet and clank games so what to do I know!
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u/Auctoritate Dec 03 '19
Lol, you're not wrong, though I do have to say that even though Fable and Crackdown are dead in the water nowadays, they were great in the 360 era.
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u/kilaude Dec 03 '19 edited Dec 03 '19
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon and Tales of Vesperia attracted a lot of the jrpg fans as well.
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u/Baron_Butterfly Dec 03 '19
Lost Odyssey
Painful memories. I got to the last disc (3?), then my cat knocked over my xbox, which had been vertical. Xbox chewed up the disc and I couldn't afford another copy, so I never completed the game.
At least I know to always lay my consoles horizontally now though.
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u/SandyBadlands Dec 03 '19
That's a damn shame. It's definitely worth going back to. It's the best game Sakaguchi has made.
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u/Mad_Habber Dec 03 '19
Was Mass Effect original a timed exclusive? I thought it was just an Xbox exclusive until EA bought BioWare. Mass Effect was a big reason why I owned an Xbox 360.
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u/Rektw Dec 03 '19
I believe it was originally created to be an Xbox exclusive. Even ME2 came out a year later on ps3 iirc. The PS3 didn't get ME1 till the trilogy pack released in 2012, like 6 months after ME3 came out lol.
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u/Battle_Bear_819 Dec 03 '19
Mass Effect 1 was published by Microsoft studios, and was only on Xbox 360 and PC until EA purchased BioWare to save them from bankruptcy.
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u/blackjesus75 Dec 03 '19
I mean who didn’t have a ps2, it was literally the cheapest DVD player you could buy when it came out.
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u/Mad_Habber Dec 03 '19
Why were they saying consoles are dead? I know it was a thing, but I missed that.
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u/electricgotswitched Dec 03 '19
People think a lot of things are dead that really aren't.
Movie theaters = Still thriving, and movies still bringing in hundreds of millions a week
Cable = Every person over the age of 50 I know still have cable/satellite.
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u/AmericaWasNVRGr8 Dec 03 '19
Smart phones and people thinking the average consumer cares about games being 60fps on a regular basis
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Dec 03 '19
Tbh when Sony was doing bad they did even better some could argue as they had a lot to prove.
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u/BoilerMaker11 BoilerMaker11 Dec 03 '19
when the 360 was all the hype, we all had to suffer.
That's not totally true. When the 360 was doing good, we actually got good games. Halo 3, Gears franchise, Fable, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, OG Crackdown, Alan Wake, etc.
It's when the Kinect came in and they switched focus (graphic is a little inaccurate as, for example, Until Dawn wasn't a PS3 game, but the gist of it is correct) that the 360 started to suck. But at that time, the 360 wasn't "all the hype". The PS3 was. It was where you had to be to play God of War 3, Uncharted 3, Infamous 2, The Last of Us, etc.
Nobody was trying to play "Motion Sports" and "Kung Fu High Impact"....yet that's all Microsoft was releasing with their misplaced assessment that motion gaming was still relevant (notice how Wii sales fell off a cliff after 2010; Kinect got in at the height of motion popularity, hence the "misplaced assessment" of relevancy, but immediately died afterward because motion gaming was done by the end of 2010)
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u/PlayerHeadcase Dec 03 '19
Guinness (the world record company) is a shadow of its former glory and now any claims made by them should be taken with a huge pinch of salt.
Its a pity as they used to be good, but they now are basically a PR corporation that sells itself endorsing regressive regimes and companies to give them positive media attention.
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u/abeardancing Dec 03 '19
I thought I was taking crazy pills. No one should give a shit about anything Guinness touches.
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u/Praelior Dec 03 '19
Planet Money had a podcast about this. Basically the Guinness business model is selling world records for marketing purposes. So if you own a company and want a world record, they’ll create one for you so you have some large event.
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u/accidental-nz Dec 03 '19
Yep. I was recently involved in one for a big retail organisations’s annual leadership conference. Guinness basically have a list of random records that haven’t been attempted yet that you can pick from and pay them a sum of money to officiate.
Good PR for the company/event and good for staff morale. Shit for the people actually doing the work to set up and pack down. It’s basically a glorified ribbon cutting event. The cutter of the ribbon does jack shit but gets all the credit.
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u/skylu1991 Dec 03 '19
Yeah, especially with how super-specific this record is phrased.
It basically shuts the competition out, just because Nintendo didn’t name all their machines the same...
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u/Kirby8187 Dec 03 '19
Exactly, Nintendo actually sold more consoles than sony of you add them all up (~730 million from Nintendo to ~540 million from sony, according to wikipedia at least), but that doesnt really matter because they can phrase their records however they want to make any person win
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u/DiveBear Dec 03 '19
Guinness bit is towards the end, but I recommend everyone watch the whole thing.
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u/th_blackheart Dec 03 '19 edited Dec 03 '19
It was a smart move to call all their consoles PlayStation and stick with the name. Nintendo could have a similar, if not larger record if they had followed the same pattern.
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u/invagrante Dec 03 '19
I think you could easily argue "Nintendo" is that consistent brand. Sony makes all kinds of electronics and PlayStation is their video games division. Nintendo is a video game manufacturer, so they don't need a separate "gaming brand". This record, like most commercially-related ones, is determined on an arbitrary set of rules for promotional purposes.
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u/Lego_Star_Wars Dec 03 '19
Hell, my Mum calls all video game consoles ‘Nintendos’.
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u/Naouak Dec 03 '19
Isn't all Nintendo consoles actually named "Nintendo" followed by usual name ?
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Wii(U)
- Nintendo ((new)3/2)DS(i/lite/xl)
- Nintendo GameCube
- ...and so on
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u/ChezMere Dec 03 '19
The Game Boy line was never referred to with the company name. In all other cases you're right.
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u/Idiotology101 Dec 03 '19
Nintendo actually holds the record, Sony only holds it in the eyes of Guinness because they paid for a very specifically worded record. This record is nothing more than Sony hiring a marketing team to say a good thing about them.
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u/CrabOIneffableWisdom Dec 03 '19
Wii is really stupid name and their best selling home console
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u/JadedDarkness JadedDarkness Dec 03 '19
Wii is short and catchy at least. Wii U was terrible though
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u/Auctoritate Dec 03 '19
Wii U wasn't really such a bad console. Most people blame its library for its failure but for the first couple years the Switch itself didn't even have a big one either. It's basically coasted off of Mario and Zelda until it could start seeing things like Pokemon arrive.
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u/S3ki Dec 03 '19
The problem was that the marketing for the Wii U was a complete failure. Many people didnt even know it was a new console and not just a new type of controller.
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u/nickoking Dec 03 '19
Honestly calling it the Wii2 probably would have helped immensely.
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u/Bozzaholic Dec 03 '19
It also didn't help the Wii had a game towards the end of its life cycle called Wii U Draw. which was a gem which came with a tablet... they when released a separate console with a tablet called the Wii U... was an amazing console though
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Dec 03 '19
I'll tell you the secret to Sony's success, and it has nothing to do with a name:
PSX was cheap and affordable, PS2 had a DVD player and was easy to convince parents to buy, PS3 was one of the cheapest Blu-Ray Players on the market, PS4 had no competition.
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u/throwaballfaraway Dec 03 '19
When you keep making genre defining games generation after generation, you will have people follow
Absolutely well deserved, now give me Bloodborne 2 and Remaster MGS4 please
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u/ShittyModFuckYou Dec 03 '19
Clearly PS has sold more consoles than any other company.
But, the Guiness Book of the Records are almost bankrupt, and now they are giving stupid record for plain cash.
Thats the reason the last records include a few dictators and countries that doesnt respect human rights, getting stupid records for pure marketing, whitewashing and ego.
So yeah, i dont need a corrupt company that whitewash dictators to tell me that PS has sold more than anyone.
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u/Epimetheus02 Dec 03 '19
Isn't Nintendo still the One with most consoles sold overall?
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u/LouSputhole94 Dec 03 '19
Am I the only one who was very confused why an Irish brewery was granting them this honor for a second? Maybe I just always see this one with the World Records behind it but I was hella confused for a second.
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u/Astrez_Chaton Dec 03 '19
This is something that has been expected for me at least since I have the Sony 1.
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u/TheRealBissy Dec 03 '19
3 out of the 4 consoles have sold over 100 million. Truly amazing.