Not exactly hard when it was still being officially manufactured and sold all the way until 2013-2014, right around the release of the PS4.

Its also important to remember that the PS2 was one of the cheapest DVD players at the time it was released. The reason it sold so well was almost entirely because of this.

Sold, it’s not being sold now.

This 160 figure was announced on the PlayStation podcast back in April.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240407211323/https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-boss-jim-ryan-reveals-ps2-sold-160-million-units-worldwide

This PS2 must be a hard-working dude!

160 millions bricks that are now useless because they can’t be upgrate?