May 19, 2004 - Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that as of 5/18/2004, the original PlayStation console has managed worldwide shipments of 100,000,000 units. This, according to the company, makes it the first home game console to achieve this feat.

When split across the world, shipments for the PlayStation have been most impressive in North America with Europe coming in a close second. Since release on 9/9/1995, North America has seen shipments of 39,670,000 units. Europe, since release on 9/29/1995, has seen shipments of 39,610,000 units. Japan and the rest of Asia has managed shipments of 20,720,000 units.

The PlayStation system has seen release in a total of 120 countries throughout the world. The company attributes the 2000 PS One redesign and its effect on overseas sales as having contributed to the record hardware units sold, a feat which comes nine and a half years following the PlayStation's original Japanese release on 12/3/1994.

Other impressive figures come from software associated with the system. Worldwide, 7,300 PlayStation titles have seen release (we presume this figure includes multiple versions of the same game released in different territories) totaling 949,000,000 million pieces of software.

And the system continues to sell. 2003 saw shipments of 3.31 million PSOne systems and 32,000,000 pieces of PlayStation-compatible software as the system approaches its tenth anniversary.