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The PS2 Just Will Not Die

The PlayStation 2 was first released in the year 2000. It was presumed dead in 2006, with the advent of the PlayStation 3. Yet here it is, eleven years later, and the thing just will not stop selling.

Octo15598d ago (Edited 5598d ago )

It keeps going and going and going....

Dart895598d ago

Gotta agree i stil have my ps2 fat and slim running in top shape.

@Octo 4 u my friend.

SasanovaS19875598d ago

had a ps2 for like 9 years...still runs like its new

zootang5598d ago

"The PS2 Just Will Not Die"

Neither will the PS3

Istanbull5598d ago

Sony expects PS2 to sell 6 million in their fiscal year ending march 31th.

DAMNNNNN!

Istanbull5598d ago

@Sasanova:

My PS1 from 1996 still works, playing Legend of the Dragoon now. :)

You guys recommending a PS1 game?

DelbertGrady5598d ago

@Istanbull - Poy Poy, if you can find it that is.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Joni-Ice5598d ago

Im buying a PS2 soon. I have a ton of PS2 games and would like to have a PS2 onhand.

ABizzel15598d ago

@Istanbull

Destrega, it a fighting game, but you fight using powers, and when you get close enough it become physical combat, and it has a good story for a fighting game.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

@Grady

WTF is Poy Poy. It looks awesome :)

rockleex5598d ago

I've been thinking about buying a new PS2.

My original one would still be working right now if I didn't open it up to mod so I can play imported games.

HolyOrangeCows5598d ago

My PS2 slim is still alive and kicking.

SasanovaS19875598d ago

yea my ps1 is alive and well also, with the little blue attachment in the back that enables japanese imports. i got dbz legends on it, sickest dbz game everrrr

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hennessey865598d ago (Edited 5598d ago )

mine died when I bought the far superiour xbox

edit vvvvvvv

3 good games
halo 1 and 2
gta vice city/san andreas
jet set radio
project gotham 1 and 2
forza 1
oddworld strangers wrath
panzer dragoon
splinter cell 123
ralli sport challenge 1 2
jade empire
fable
and the list goes on, the xbox is one of the most underrated consoles ever and it paved the way for online gaming.

RedDead5598d ago

Yeah XBOX was so much more powerful, a terrible shame it only had about 3 good games...

klado5598d ago (Edited 5598d ago )

Cough, so I bet you didn't get to play.

DmC 1,2,3
Gow 1,2
Grandia 3
Ff x,xii
Hack series
MGS series
Tenchu series
ICO
Shadow of colossus
Okami
Resident Evil series
Jak & Daxter series
Persona 3, 4
DQ 8
Kingdom Heart 1, 2

Or just let me OWN you.
http://www.psxa2z.com/ps2/P...

cough cough, bet your childhood was dull and borin "deadly" cough cough

hennessey865598d ago (Edited 5598d ago )

that is one of my regrets, not getting to play god of war 1 and 2 but maybe ill pick up the collection because i loved god of war 3 and its not a contest i was merely replieing to reddeads comment

edit i did get to play mgs2, devil may cry 1, onimusha 1and 2, gt3, gta 3, redfaction and the terible fireworks game that came with the ps2 lol

just_looken5598d ago

fyi pc gameing online was available before dreamcast then dreamcast went online after then the xbox then ps2. you should say xbox paved the way for paying for online gameing that the competition can do for free. also there are still ps2 games online.

adamx5598d ago

wrong, when will you learn? SEGA paved the way for online gaming on consoles with the dreamcast and dare I say the prehistoric net link on the saturn.

AntoineDcoolette5598d ago

PC gaming paved the way for online. Dreamcast paved the way for consoles.

ShinMaster5598d ago

@hennessey86

It's a shame the PS2 could easily quadruple the size of that list, Lol

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Blaine5598d ago

It didn't so much die as was *abandoned* by M$. They killed it themselves as soon as the 360 launched to try and push people to get their new console.

But I'm sure taking BC out of new PS3 SKUs is helping the PS2 to keep selling. That's why I thought they made that decision to begin with (not, as idiots claim, "to re-make the games in HD and sell them to you again").

gypsygib5598d ago

Feels like my 360 is being killed prematurely too for Kinect.

InfiniteJustice5598d ago

If fanboys play sales so much why is it never taken into account that the PS2 is STILL selling, alongside the PS3? Makes you wonder how cancellation of the PS2 would effect further PS3 sales in the long term

just_looken5598d ago

its because there xbox 1 was doa b4 360 was realised they would half to admit ms is a crap company.

DigitalAnalog5598d ago

What GAMES are they buying for this console?

-End of Line

Dart895598d ago

Umm games that people never got around to playing when they were released i just bought some games i never got around to playing when they were released.

InfiniteJustice5598d ago

Second hand market for PS2 is insane. I've seen amazing games like SoTC for £4. Any PS2 MGS game for the same price... Ridiculous when you think about how many amazing games the PS2 had/ has

Blaine5598d ago

@Digital

I never played Bully. :(

Haha, I was dead-set on getting a PS3 at launch, so about 6 months before that I stopped buying anything for my PS2. Missed out on a few games. I doubt I'll ever re-visit them though--there's just too many great games coming out on PS3 now for me to take time to play a PS2 game.

NiKK_4195598d ago

isn't it crazy that new games are still coming out for ps2 this long after release? that's dedication

smoothdude5598d ago

@digitalAnalog

The PS2 developers should go after the used game sales for the PS2 because they are hurting the profits from PS2 game sales! LMAO.

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xtremexx5598d ago

so you like the IT Crowd, do you ...

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klado5598d ago

Oh dread, how thing has changed eh?

I sweared in my heart you were this guy bungie xD, in the daily basis of trolling on N4G, now seem like you jumped for a more unbiased behavior, can fathom with that but you know, to call 80% of N4G population is plain hypocritical knowing where you came from.

No pun though.

hellzsupernova5598d ago

NO it will live on in our heats forever
but yes it will be discontinued eventually

just_looken5598d ago

it will die when the 360/dvds are off the shelf like vcr's.

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Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

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they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

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Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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I remember playing this back in the day on PS2. What a sick game!

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"Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise"

Press X to (seriously) doubt.

DarXyde41d ago

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.

Soy42d ago

And then MK1 killed it again.

DivineHand12541d ago (Edited 41d ago )

15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.