fazz said:
You ruined your comment with that. First of all, a console is NOT an investment like a PC is. An investment is something you can recover the money you put on it. You can't do that on ANY console. Second, a well built PC, not necessarily expensive, but with well chosen components can last some good time doing it's job and doing YOUR job. 8 years? Sorry, but the PS2 is on it's 6th year and is dieing off. Why Sony released the PS3 is it had the PS2? Why MGS4 is being released for PS3 and not for PS2? Sorry, but no. Last, a system's brand has ZERO related to it's scalability. By knowing it's capabilities you can know what a system can do. I wasn't surprised to see something like GoW2 on the PS2, because I always knew that with time and effort they would use it's hardware to the max... just as you said in your post. |
The term investment is not only used in the monetary context. He was reffering to time invested into a gaming console, which is a perfectly valid statment.
As you have mentioned, the PS2 is currently in it's 6th year which fell into his modest range of 6-8 years, so I'm not entirely sure why you are ripping him on this =/
"I always knew that with time and effort they would use it's hardware to the max" Of course we know that, but we are never sure of what that limit actually is untill we actually see it (Well I can't anyway... I'm not so intimately familiar with the systems hardware and it's limitations). GoW2's visuals, to me, were a surprise and were absolutely stunning at the time. Other games may have looked better on the cube or Xbox, but regardless, it was still surprising to see this coming from the PS2.
