PS2 is a dead platform as far as I'm concerned. It's all about the Xbox 360 and PS3 right now. Sure there's still some support from developers, but really... its just for people who don't want to upgrade, so they get watered down versions of games (worst graphics [duh], no DLC, no online, less content).
I think sony have kept it alive too long it's longevity have lead ultimately a decrease in ps3 sales and for what? Basically fo inferior ports of games...
IT MUST DIE!!! We should all phone in a complaint to Sony customer service, then work our ways up to the big guys. They'll get the message eventually...
Please listen to me carefully so that you or a minion of other noobs wont have to ask this question again. The PS2 will never die, because as long as you play it, it will live on. The entire PS2 catalog is huge, expansive, and diverse. Okay? Got it? Good.
Right before my brother got his ps3 and I got by 360 my brother had a X-box and Ps2. We wanted the new NHL2k game (NHL2k8) so we were like damn its only 20 on ps2 lets chip in $10 each and play it...
overall were we pissed that the game was complete garbage on the PS2...no? you know why? we were to busy laughing. How is this system not dead yet? I think its got 2 years left.
However I do also think that systems are past the time where they last 4 years and move on I think systems are going to start to last 6-8 years then go to the next one.
Being that Sony seems to be removing all Backward compatiblilty from all their PS3 teir versions, it's likely that the PS2 will be around for a long time to come.
Please listen to me carefully so that you or a minion of other noobs wont have to ask this question again. The PS2 will never die, because as long as you play it, it will live on. The entire PS2 catalog is huge, expansive, and diverse. Okay? Got it? Good.PreLuDe_DuDe
Please listen to me carefully so that you or a minion of other noobs wont have to ask this question again. The PS2 will never die, because as long as you play it, it will live on. The entire PS2 catalog is huge, expansive, and diverse. Okay? Got it? Good.PreLuDe_DuDe
^ I tend to agree, philosophically. However, two more years of forty or more titles released and a slow, dwindling phase-out after that. But, yeah, so long as you play it, it ain't dead.
Im not ticked, It\s just that people keep asking these questions about upcoming games like it is suppose to decide the fate of the PS2 when people havent even get a hold of older games that are rare and some even really expensive to play. I mean to this very day people are spending thousands and thousands of dollars on Nintendo Wiis Virtual console. Do you see the correlation? As long as you play, and look for all the good gems, nothing is dead.
I voted for 6-12 months for normal society. But for me it will be going for probably a few more years since I just bought one last week and I have FFXII, Tales of the Abyss and DQVIII. All long games from what I've read and I don't get to play as much as I'd like so it'll take forever to finish this wave of games. THen I got to get Kingdom Hearts. Long live PS2. Plus, I got my Wii too and there are some games on the horizon taking up more time.
IT MUST DIE!!! We should all phone in a complaint to Sony customer service, then work our ways up to the big guys. They'll get the message eventually...GamerBoy53
People were saying that the PS2 would die when the PS3 came out and yet here we are 2 years later. So I think the PS2 is going to be sticking around for a good while longer.
About 1-2 years I'd say, as far as new games being put out, then perhaps a little longer for hardware production before they finally call it quits.
Really though, with so many problems with the PS3 related to backwards compatability (and its eventual removal anyhow), I don't see this console going away any day soon...as much as some folks would like it to. Between both the PS1 and PS2, there's just too large a back catalog of games to just stop production of the PS2 tomorrow. After all they are just starting to get the 90000 series consoles in stores now.
Well now that the third model of the system was released here in the states about a week ago, I say it's got quite some time to go. 1-2 years. Pics of the new 90000 model are in the thread "information on the new PS2 model" I will bump it if you haven't seen it yet. I got it at Wal-mart a few days ago.
If you look at the sales in Japan the PS2 still sells amazingly well and regularly out-sells the 360. Even I was thinking of buying one last year but plumped for the PSP instead.
I can see Sony continue to sell console and games for another year at least.
yeah the PS2 is a zombie. It's been dead since the PS3 came out. even before then, everyone knew the xbox was a superior console. the only thing that kept the ps2 alive was God of War II. Now they just keep releasing garbage on the ps2. If they had released a new GTA game for the ps2 then I'd believe it is still alive (a little). but NO, when the best games are coming out for ONLY the ps3 and 360, you KNOW the ps2 is dead. I still love to play my old ps2 games, but I do not see myself buying a new ps2 game ever again (and psp ports do not count as "new")
No system ever just "dies." If you mean when will developers stop producing games for the PS2...that's more like the right question.
In my opinion, the PS2's real potential started when GoW2 was released (with respect to RE4). Unfortunately in a world today everything needs to be better, more expensive and better technology (basically greedy people). The PS2 can easily live on for another 5 more years if there were no next-gen consoles. You can easily sqeeze out another Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Persona, Rachet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, etc.
People would appreciate the next-generation consoles more if we took our time with them.
I would approximate that the ps2 has about two years left in production. In December the ps2 sold 333,200 units in North America half as many as the PSP and about a 5th of what he ps3 sold (1.36 M). Life is clearly ebbing from the console with major releases being a thing of the past. Unlike the ps2 competitors (gamecube, Xbox) games are still being released for the system though its primarily updates to music and sport games with the occasional kiddy shovel ware thrown in for good measure. The PSONE was in production for almost tweleve years before sony killed it (source). The ps2 is more popular then the psone was. Further unlike the psone's successor most ps3 can not play the catalog of ps2 games. So I think the system has about two years left.
it will still live when GTASAS comes out. it will turn into a current gen console but with last gen graphics when they put the XMB and a 40GB HDD in it. download ps1 and psp games along with ps2 game DLC
This thread is from 2008. Amazing how people have been thinking about this for so long but it's still going.
I for one, will probably keep playing my PS2 for at least another 7 to 8 years as I wasn't that into gaming when I had it, or at least I never looked on the web or anything for game recommendations and just had word of mouth and sequels of games I knew I liked,and there are SO many games that I missed out on. I've been tempted to get a PS3 but the lack of backward compatibility is holding me back as I don't have enough space on my desk for a PS2, Wii and PS3.
At which point I would be very tempted to simply stop supporting Sony anymore. I've personally had it with their unreliable consoles... and even though my current ps3 is working fine now, I'm even more scared of it breaking down again than I am of my 360.[QUOTE="bigboss00"]People were saying that the PS2 would die when the PS3 came out and yet here we are 2 years later. So I think the PS2 is going to be sticking around for a good while longer.CommanderShiro
It would have died out more gracefully, if ps3's you buy now would play PS2 games like they were supposed to. Like Sony promised it would. :evil:
If you look at the sales in Japan the PS2 still sells amazingly well and regularly out-sells the 360.
-Jonce-
That's because Japan is even more xenophobic by culture than America before the 70's gas crisis.
Even thought the PS2 was an amazing system that we will remember forever I really think that Sony needs to end its life.
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That might be a little hard now, with news stating that Sony has waived the licensing fee to print PS2 games (you still have to have purchased their SDK for the thing, though). Thus means the system should still see more commercial games coming, because it won't really cost that much to continue releasing a multiplatform game pared down to run on a ps2.
I for one just got a PS2 today (after I sold my broken one like three years ago), and I'd have to say the prospects may not be as good as you think. GameStop is clearly trying to phase it out and does not stock new system or games anymore, and I don't think Best Buy even supplies the PS2. When it becomes unavailable to the masses, then it pretty much becomes commercially unviable. Of course, I don't think the PS2 will completely die out until Sony releases the software emulation they said they were working on for the PS3.
I predict three more Madden games. After that I don't see anymore games past 2012.
However the PS2 will never die. There is no video game console anywhere in the world that you can purchase legally for $100 and be able to play thousands and thousands of games like the PS2. The vast libraries of the first two Playstation consoles will always keep me happy.
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