Review of Playstation 2 Console by Protomario
39One of the best console's ever made.
The PlayStation 2 (プレイステーション2 Pureisutēshon Tsū?, officially abbreviated PS2) is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000 in Japan. Its primary competitors were Sega's Dreamcast, Microsoft's Xbox, and Nintendo's GameCube.
The PS2 is the best-selling console of all time, having reached over 150 million units sold as of January 31, 2011.[1][2] This milestone was reached 10 years and 11 months after the system was released in Japan on March 4, 2000. Further, Sony said it currently has 2015 titles available for the system and that 1.52 billion PS2 titles have been sold since launch.[6] In late 2009, with developers creating new games and the console still selling steadily a decade after its original release, Sony stated that the life cycle of the PlayStation 2 will continue until demand ceases.
Directly after its release, it was difficult to find PS2 units on retailer shelves[8] due to manufacturing delays.[9] Another option was purchasing the console online through auction websites such as eBay, where people paid over one thousand dollars for a PS2.[10] The PS2 initially sold well partly on the basis of the strength of the PlayStation brand and the console's backward compatibility, selling over 980,000 units in Japan by March 5, 2000, one day after launch.[11] This allowed the PS2 to tap the large install base established by the PlayStation — another major selling point over the competition. Later, Sony added new development kits for game developers and more PS2 units for consumers.
Many analysts predicted a close three-way matchup between the PS2 and competitors Microsoft's Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube (GameCube being the cheapest of the three consoles and had an open market of games); however, the release of several blockbuster games during the 2001 holiday season maintained sales momentum and held off the PS2's rivals.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2