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Gaming - PS2 or 360 offline? - View Post

twesterm on 30 March 2009
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Johann said:
twesterm said:
Johann said:

Dude, is this a joke?
The Ps2 offers the best library of games if you put it against PSWii60, why would it fail against one of them alone?
This wouldn't be a fair question even if you included online, but the fact that you said you prefer RPG and adventure games just makes me think you might be stealth trolling.

True, but like I've said the PS2 doesn't have a future.

If someone had come around in 2002 and asked should I get a PS2 or a PS you would tell them the PS1 because it has the larger library of games and completely ignore the future of the console.

Don't get me wrong, I love the PS2 library and do think it is incredibly, but you can't deny that the PS2 era is simply over. If you buy a PS2 as your only current gaming system, you're trapped with nowhere to grow. If you buy a 360 (or PS3 or Wii) it is still a current system and he still has plenty of options.

Tell me something, do you think that by the end of this gen, specially for someone who doesn't seem to care much for online and prefers RPGs and adventure games over shooters, the 360's library of games has a great chance of being better than that of the PS2's? And for how much PS2 games go for these days? Next to nothing for classics he never had a chance to experience?

This is not even a question. I still think the OP might be stealth trolling.

 

Whoops, missed your post.

I have no idea what will happen by the end of this gen.  Again, lets go back to 2002, would you have been able to guess that the PS2 would have such an incredible library?

Also, by your reasoning it seems like you think everyone should buy a PS2 before anything else since it has this fantastic library.  Screw every other reason, you must have a PS2 first.

So lets look at pros and cons

PS2 Pros

  • Cheap
  • Games can be cheap, if you can find them
  • Great library, if you can find them
  • Backwards compatible with PS1 games

PS2 Cons

  • The PS2 does not have a future.  Yes, it is still getting a small trickle of games, but most of those can either be gotten on the Wii or would be something you really don't want and each month that selection of new games gets smaller and smaller.
  • Games are out of print, meaning you have to hunt for some possibly pricey games.
  • The PS2 does not support HD when the OP decides to upgrade (2010 according to him) he will not be able to take advantage of it.
  • If the OP ever does decide to go online, the PS2 doesn't do that except for a handful of exceptions.
  • The games are not as easy to find as people make tehm out to be (I'm convined the guy above just got lucky if he did get all those)
  • He will not be able to get anything new and it's just in peoples nature to want the new thing

Xbox 360 Pros

  • Access to new games
  • Large library of good online and offline games
  • HD ready
  • Online ready
  • Wireless controllers (one of the things the OP wants)
  • Backwards compatible with many Xbox games
  • Arcade, should he choose to buy a hard drive

Xbox 360 cons

  • Library is not as large as the PS2
  • More expensive than the PS2

Personally, the PS2 cons and the 360 pros make it not a hard for me at least.