For every person you see on the street, somewhere there’s a PS2

If you live in the UK, you’ll know it’s a pretty busy place, one of the most densely populated places in the world. If you live in the UK but play a lot of online role-playing games, take our word for it - the streets really are as busy and scary as you imagine.

And today Sony has pointed out that it has sold 60 million PlayStation 2 hardware units, which roughly works out at one machine each for every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom.

The regional breakdown reads as follows:

Japan and Asia: 14.17 million units (launch date: March 4, 2000)
North America: 26.42 million units (launch date: October 26, 2000)
Europe/PAL: 19.44 million units (launch date: November 24, 2000)

It's all undeniably impressive.

Although the stock corporate quote was surprisingly missing from the press release, SCEE did adorn its figures with the legend, “With PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Sony Computer Entertainment will create and develop a new world of computer entertainment for the broadband era through the fusion of game, music, movies, and broadcasting.”

Yikes! Lock up your daughters!