14 DAY TRIAL // Sony's all time winner, the PS2, which sold 100 million units, is the last console developed by the company for the previous generation of platforms. Although it was launched about seven years ago, the PS2 has enjoyed a popularity few consoles have in their lifetime. The reason it still stands tall is because some of the best games ever launched have hit the console, games developed and published by some of the best companies out there, that have taken extra care in tailoring them to perfectly suit PS2's features. Yet, not everyone has the same opinion.
While Reuters thinks very positive about the PS2 saying that competitors are no match for it, Dubious Quality reckons that the PS3 will soon smash its name into pieces with a great line of titles coming up to take the PS2 out of commission.
Now, the coming of the PS3 doesn't mean that its predecessor's days are over. Not by far even, as more and more games launch on the old PS2 every week. Why didn't everybody just pack up their PS2 in a box and throw it in the basement when the PS3 arrived? Well, for starters, the PS3 is still too damned expensive for everybody to afford. But this is not the main reason. Games are the main reason. Whatever a console costs, whatever a console looks like, however big or small it is, people will mainly buy it for the titles.
I mean, that's what consoles are all about right? Games. If there are a lot of choices to make, and all of them are good, then how could it have missed? Some say that if we want to see how many active PS2 players are out there, we should just wait to see when the PS3 starts to sell. What will really tell the answer is the number of sold God of War II copies, when it launches in March.