# Playstation 2 to cease production. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 31, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671 "2012-12-31T15:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/1 "2012-12-31T15:51:37Z")
[Well, this answers a question I’ve had for a long time.](http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/12/31/game-over-for-sony-playstation-2/?intcmp=features) How long will the PS2 keep getting made? [It just had a game released for it in October in the US](http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Evolution-Soccer-2013-Playstation-2/dp/B008MO6BJU/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1356969075&sr=8-11&keywords=fifa+soccer+13), so perhaps that is the final game? What a great system. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/2 "2012-12-31T19:51:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/3 "2013-01-01T07:13:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/4 "2013-01-01T07:20:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/5 "2013-01-01T07:23:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/6 "2013-01-01T23:31:36Z")
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](http://www.backloggery.com/cckerberos) :(). 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. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/7 "2013-01-02T07:03:39Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/8 "2013-01-06T22:38:10Z")
Wow, seems like only yesterday Saddam was buying up all the PS2’s to build missile guidance systems. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/9 "2013-01-07T15:06:18Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wow, seems like only yesterday Saddam was buying up all the PS2’s to build missile guidance systems. :smack: I thought that was China. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/10 "2013-01-07T15:56:25Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > 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). I remember seeing the initial previews (at the Sony store at San Francisco’s Metreon). > [@](#): > > Great system, awful launch 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? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/11 "2013-01-07T17:55:26Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > I thought that was China. [Iraq was in the news quite a bit.](http://www.wnd.com/2000/12/7640/) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/12 "2013-01-09T01:05:51Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > I thought that was China. Even with all his oil, I don’t think Saddam could’ve bought up China. ---
**Author:** ![Sevencl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sevencl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevencl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/13 "2013-01-09T01:15:33Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/14 "2013-01-09T01:22:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fake_Tales_of_San_Francisco)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/15 "2013-01-09T01:26:34Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playstation-2-to-cease-production/645671/16 "2013-01-09T01:27:39Z")
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.