Comments on: Sony Playstation 2 outsells Playstation 3

By: extreme gammer

extreme gammer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:36:32 +0000

Craigo is true.

I have a PS2 and PSP and upgraded to a Wii.

I thought back then that i wanted a change in gaming so Wii fit the bill

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:11:57 +0000

I think the figures might start to change when the big IP starts to hit the Playstation 3 – the newest Final Fantasy, Metal Gear solid etc.

I’d like to think Little Big Planet will also be interesting enough to pull people over to the console.

As of yet I don’t think it’s had anything too exciting (even if you include the awesome upcoming, download only Redbaron game – that I may or may not have worked on )

By: woodins

woodins — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:28:42 +0000

Its amazing, i was one of those people who brought the PS2 when it first came out (yep – 300 quid, 3 month waiting list, no game and just one controller, but hey, i was young and stupid, with braces and acne, so sex with girls wasn’t even contemplated). I always thought it sucked, and i quickly fell in love with the PC and the types of games that were on it.
I re-purchased the slimline (original died, even though it was relegated to just playing just DVD’s) when sam amdreas came out, and my opinion did a 360. Even now, i think the PS2 slimline was one of the best consoles ever. Small, with a vast games catalogue, and still had some mileage in it when the 360 started gathering speed. Even now im amazed by how much they squeezed out of an apparently difficult machine for God Of War 2. Not a PS3 owner yet, but i really hope it too gathers some momentum. I too am unpset by the lack of backwards capability. I dont want to have to unplug, then re-plug two machines if i have an ultra nerd moment and want to play the entire MGS series from start to finish. Come on Sony, release a software emulator for the PS3, it wouldn’t be that hard surely, what with all that power you keep boasting is under the hood of the PS3?

By: Dudley

Dudley — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:18:20 +0000

It’s really an impressive tail to the PS2 lifespan.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:50:46 +0000

@Darren: I’m sure thats the case for you Darren, but as for me and people like me (the very vocal people on videogame messageboards) the backwards compatibility is certainly an issue. My PS2 stopped working a little while ago and I would have purchased a PS3 as opposed to paying for it to be fixed.

However, I found out a little DIY “Fix your ps2″ guide on the internet and managed to get it working again.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:16:39 +0000

Since March the US NPD sales figures show that the PS3 is out selling the PS2, so the tide has started to turn there. I think in Japan The PS3 has been outselling the PS2 for quite a while now. I can get any figures for Europe but I would guess that the same is true here too.

@Lloyd, I don’t think the backwards compatibility is the issue. I’ve got a huge library of Gamecube games and not one of them has been near the Wii. The reason I held off buying a PS3 wasn’t that I couldn’t play my PS2 discs on a 40gb PS3, it was Price, Lack of PS3 only titles, and the Bluray/HD-DVD format war. I bought mine when Bluray won and GT5 Prologue was about to ship, and I could find a good bundle that was cost effective.

By: Rincewind

Rincewind — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:23:39 +0000

-> Sean Bean’s Gravy Boat :
“PSX” or “PS-X” was also a codename/nickname, first when nintendo contacted sony to develop a cd-rom add-on for the snes, then, when this project was aborted, for the original PS.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:17:58 +0000

I guess this just confirms what a mistake Sony made with rushing the PS3 out when they did. They were panicked into a premature launch by the arrival of the 360 and the Wii, where the PS2 was quite capable of holding its own for another year or two.

By: Sean Bean's Gravy Boat

Sean Bean's Gravy Boat — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:03:21 +0000

Please don’t refer to the original PlayStation console as the “PSX” – it makes you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about and I’m sure that isn’t the case.

The PSX was a DVR that allowed you to record TV shows onto HD or DVD, and was based on PlayStation2 hardware.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:28:55 +0000

I play my PS2 more than any other console I own still. Fact. That I can go onto EBAY and buy loads of bargain ‘cult’ games for the rough amount of a fiver each is great. Also I feel the botched backwards compatibility of the PS3 is a big reason behind people being reluctant to adopt one, possibly waiting to see if the whole debacle is sorted out?