Sequel to the great Playstation and the second of the current generation consoles, the Playstation 2 can probably be seen as the most successful console of these days. It has a healthy library of games, excellent controller an you could play you original Playstation games on it. What else do you need? Aside from these attributes, the Sony Playstation 2 has some of the most memorable game franchises. Ratchet and Clank, Jak, Metal Gear Solid, and of course, Grand Theft Auto.

The PS2 brought online gaming to the table and also drew in a lot of the gamers that are here today. Mostly because it could be used as a CD player or DVD player, the PS2 sold fantasticly. You hardly ever see a gamer that has a GameCube or Xbox and no Playstation 2.

Sony played its cards exactly right with this console, releasing it before the expecting Nintendo and Microsoft consoles and releasing it when the Dreamcast was going downhill. With a dying console on the market and plenty of praise from the previous Playstation, when better to release the PS2? It still holds up strong against the higher-graphics of the GC and Xbox and still has efery reason to be bought now as it did when it came out.