Well, this answers a question I’ve had for a long time. How long will the PS2 keep getting made?
It just had a game released for it in October in the US, so perhaps that is the final game? What a great system.
It took PlayStation Network this long to come out with a digital copy of San Andreas for PlayStation 3? Shoot, I’ve had it for 360 for months.
Yup, PS2 is done and gone. I haven’t used mine for at least four years, but this is still bittersweet. PS2 was the console of my college years (graduated 2004).
Great system, awful launch, but man I got a lot of miles out of my PS2.
/I miss SSX:Tricky and THPS3 the most. Still waiting on ports to XBOX 360. THPS4 and Gran Turismo 3 close runners up.
PS2 is my only game system; bought it in 2007 or so. I like to be a generation behind; I have no idea what I’m missing, and I have a huge library accessible to me.
Still play it from time to time.
You can have my PS2 when you pry it frtom my cold, dead hands! Ok, I have a PS3 also, and the PS2 is the bedroom system which is used more as a DVD player than a gaming console these days, but I agree with everyone else - I have a lot of good memories associated with that thing. Maybe I’ll fire up a copy of Dark Cloud 2 in celebration.
I still have it plugged in and I actually played through a game last month (that’s one off my PS2 backlog… only 47 to go :().
But since I realized a couple months ago that PS2 emulation has finally come into its own, I haven’t bothered using the actual console at all. It’s just so much more convenient to play them that way.
I love my PS2.
I doubt I will upgrade until forced to by children. But for now, there are so many games I can still play and enjoy on my PS2 that there is no need to upgrade. As you might be able to guess, I’m not what you’d call an avid gamer. So I don’t have a strong need to buy the latest console. And the sad truth is, I suck at the games now, and I don’t have the time to get better at them. Even if I had the time, I doubt I would improve, since my hands are too big for the controls, and my reflexes are too slow.
I am a proud child of the Atari, one joystick one button world of gaming. Oh well.
Wow, seems like only yesterday Saddam was buying up all the PS2’s to build missile guidance systems. :smack:
I thought that was China.
I remember seeing the initial previews (at the Sony store at San Francisco’s Metreon).
How so? Okay, the initial supply sold out in less than an hour, and I for one didn’t see one (well, one that wasn’t marked up by at least $25) until three months later (and even then, probably only because I timed a shipment right), plus there weren’t that many games available for its first few months, but how is that different from pretty much any other initial release?
Even with all his oil, I don’t think Saddam could’ve bought up China.
Shit. What does this mean for the games? Are some of them just going to be impossible to play anymore once extant PS2s slowly start dwindling in number from age/breakage?
My girlfriend still has a Sega Genesis that works perfectly well, and my cousin tells me the 1993 PAL SNES I handed down to him still works, other than one of the controller ports. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, especially since every modern system includes some type of emulation for older systems.
It’ll take a while for the current PS2’s to finally cark it. I guess they wont be as long lasting as the SNES, but I can’t see them burning out too soon. After that there’s always PS2 emulators, which will use the original CD’s.
It’d be nice if the PS4 will be truly backwards compatible (right up to the original Playstation would be ideal).
I guess, now that I think about it, that cartridge-based systems had no moving parts, which was probably good for longevity. They didn’t get very hot, either.