Sony’s news this morning that the PS4 had passed 30.2M units sold to consumers is pretty impressive. To truly understand why its a significant feat, we have to look back on Sony’s PS2.

The PS2 came out in 2000 and took 26 months to reach the 30.2M mark for sold to consumers, the PS4 is hitting in 2 months early at 24. To be fair, the PS2 did have one more competitor than the PS4. The Dreamcast, Xbox and GameCube were all vying for the attention of consumers so the PS2’s number could be just as impressive or close to it in that regard.

Of course, the PS2 really took off when the system dropped from $299 to $199 in May 2002. It remains to be seen if Sony will drop the PS4’s price in a similar fashion in 2016, opting for a small $50 cut last month.

Another factor is that the PS2 had a much healthier Japanese console market and still couldn’t reach the PS4’s current sales in the same time period. The PS4 has begun selling a bit better in Japan since its most recent price drop, over 20k per week which is up from 8k-12k per week, so the fact that the PS4 has gotten to 30M off mostly Europe and the US makes this number even more eye catching. Imagine if the PS4 had always been selling a steady rate in Japan? It could already be at 32-34M.

So don’t let anyone tell you the home console is dying out. Sony’s PS4 console is outpacing their greatest console success story, the PS2, by two whole months. The markets for each console are wildly different so this isn’t an entirely an apples-to-apples comparison but the fact that we can say it at all in 2015 after years of naysayers predicting the death of consoles is a positive sign for the whole industry.