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Subject: The Sony Playstation 2 Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:33 am
The Sony Playstation 2... Successor to the original and is considered by the most as the best & most popular console of it's generation. The PS2 has the ability to play the games of the older Playstation 1. Specs:
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The highlight of the system was its Emotion Engine processor, co-developed by Sony and Toshiba, which was said to be more powerful than personal computers. The PS2 offered backward-compatibility for its predecessor's DualShock controller, as well as its games.
1. Lack Of DVD Player. It may seem trivial today, but the Gamecube's lack of a built-in DVD player caused the console to take a huge hit in sales. The PlayStation 2 launched as an attractive game console that could also play DVD movies, a new technology that would replace VCRs.
Discontinuation. Sony announced that they had discontinued the PlayStation 2 in Japan on December 28, 2012 and worldwide on January 4, 2013. The last two games for the system were FIFA 14 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 (released only in Europe) in late 2013 (a week before the PlayStation 4's release date).
The leap forward in quality and capability was revolutionary, and the PS2 did various things that were ahead of its time in many ways. It pioneered things like backwards compatibility and connectivity to its handheld equivalent, the PSP. Over the years, Sony's PlayStation has become the best-selling console brand ever.
Of the sixth-generation consoles, the Xbox was unequivocally the most powerful. It had an internal hard drive instead of memory cards with 8 - 10 GB of memory. Not only did this reduce load times for games, but it also allowed for custom game soundtracks to be played too.
The PS2 could play PS2 games, PS1 games and DVDs. The Dreamcast and Gamecube did not have backwards compatibility, nor could they play DVDs. The Xbox could play DVDs but you needed a remote that was sold separately. The PS2 had the price of $299 at launch, which was less than most regular DVD-players at the time.
The PlayStation 2 was first released in 2000 in response to Sony's hugely popular original PlayStation. The PS2 has become the best-selling video game console of all time. As of February 2024, it had sold over 158 million units worldwide.
This is a list of games for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game system. Title names may be different for each region due to the first language spoken. The last game for the PlayStation 2, Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 was released on 8 November 2013.
The short answer was that developing games for the PS2 was easier (the games were also smaller in size and scope). Developing games for the PS3 was notoriously difficult - the hardware was very powerful for the time, but also a real pain to get games to actually use that power.
PlayStation 2. Not only was the graphical jump between the PS1 and PS2 was the biggest of all time, but there was also a jump in resolution and framerate. The majority of the PS1 games ran mostly in 30fps and on lower resolutions than CRT TVs of that time.
It was the input that forced developers to learn to navigate an inherently complex structure that was, for the most part, pretty much new to all of them. That leads us to the “real” reason why the PS2 was so hard to develop for: the console's absurd learning curve.
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