Some of the issues with PS2 sales are that games were heavily pirated. Core gamers tend to pirate significantly more than casual gamers, and without a meaningful online component to much of the ps2s lineup there was a huge incentive to do so.
Even now, how many years after GOW was released..? I can still find up to 3000 downloads of GOW going on right now, with some sites tracking over 100,000 downloads _each_ and that's only the sites that track downloads.







