It feels good having a PS3. Despite going on about how great the PS2 still is, it was a major drag not looking forward to new games being released and simply playing catch up with my collection. It is a shame that I have been tempted by the newness and flashiness of a new console without squeezing the life out of the trusty PS2. God Hand, Viewtiful Joe, Metal Gear Solid 3, Yakuza 2 and ICO; all games I wanted to play before I went next generation. It must be said that I still feel the PS3 came out before it was truly necessary. Microsoft had already cornered the HD market and the Wii seems to have shifted its target audience away from the twenty something fanboy. I think Sony should have finished one story before starting another, by talking to loyal developers and asking what else they could do with the console.
Never the less, the market has moved on and the PS2 has no strong titles on the horizon (I can't believe a development house can create so many year on year re-hashes and sleep soundly at night, I'm looking at you EA!), so I have moved on too. I've just recently finished playing Resistance: Fall of Man which I enjoyed greatly and only this morning completed Uncharted: Drake's Fortune; and it felt gooooood! A tech friend (nerd) of mine is coming over to connect my PS3 to the internet on the weekend so I can get killed by American kids at three in the morning; and I will be setting up camp outside of GAME to reserve my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV as soon as possible! The next generation just became current and I love it!
But what about my PS2?
We got some tough times together. The summer heat of 2001; and the bitter winter cold of 2006. She was a friend and an enemy, a killer of time and a waster of hours. We laughed and we cried and we threw the controller out the window only to go hunting for it five minutes later. She now sits atop the dresser in my spare bedroom pleading for me to complete Rouge Galaxy on her. Sadly, that ship has sailed (pun intended). We'll always have our memories...
... So when does Haze come out then?