A silver edition is available in the United Kingdom exclusively.
Due to its thinner profile, it does not contain the 3.5" expansion bay, and therefore does not support the internal hard disk drive but due to the presence of USB 2.0 ports an external USB Hard disk can still be used, and now uses an external power supply, like the Gamecube.
When the PlayStation 2 launched in Japan in March 2000, Sony sold 980,000 units over the opening weekend.
However the New Slim Silver Models have more issues with playing PlayStation games than the first PS2 revisions.
With a price of $299.99 per console, Sony made gross sales of roughly $153,000,000.
One of them includes the old EE and GS chips, and the other contains the newer unified EE+GS chip, otherwise being identical.
The new V12 model was first released in black.
In September of that year, in time for the launch of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (the best-selling game during the 2004 Holiday season), Sony revealed a new, smaller PS2 (see Hardware revisions).
In preparation for the launch of a new, slimmer PlayStation 2 model (SCPH-70000), Sony had stopped making the older PS2 model (SCPH-5000x) sometime during the summer of 2004 to let the distribution channel empty out stock of the units.
PS2's opening day console sales eclipsed the previous record of 225,000 made by the Sega Dreamcast in 1999.
There are also some disputes on the numbering for this PS2 version, since there are actually two sub-versions of the SCPH-70000.
To this day, the PS2 holds the record for the most consoles sold in a single day as well as the record for most consoles sold in launch day in America.
