When will the Playstation 2 be discontinued?

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The Dreamcast, Gamecube, and Xbox, have all been discontinued, except for the Playstation 2. It refuses to die. When will "the most popular video game console in the world" ever join the Dreamcast, Gamecube, and Xbox, in the grave, to complete the death of the previous generation? The Playstation 2 is doing even better than the Playstation 3. Is it possible for the Playstation 2, to outlive the Playstation 3, like the Atari 2600, outlived the Atari 5200? I never saw why the Playstation 2 was so popular. Although I own one, it is one of my least played video game consoles. Maybe it's because its platformer games are too mediocre, I don't know. I only own a few games, per console, since over 95% of the video games out there, are not good. It's those stupid movie-games, and sports games that turn you off the most. The Playstation 2 is more identical to the Xbox, than it is to the Gamecube, so why was the Playstation 2 so popular, when the Xbox failed miserably in comparison? They both had Grand Theft Auto, and shared many other popular games. They both had a built in DVD player. The Xbox was more powerful than the Playstation 2, yet it was priced the same as the Playstation 2. How could the Playstation 2, sell more than twice as much as the Dreamcast, Gamecube, and Xbox, combined? Was it Sony that made the Playstation 2 a success? Because only 24 games, out of the over 1,000 available on the console, were actually made by Sony, that sold over one million copies, which is the exact same amount as on the Gamecube, yet, the Gamecube, was considered to be a failure. Maybe it was the third-party developers that made the Playstation 2 a success, instead of Sony itself. The Dreamcast, like the Gamecube, was $100 cheaper than the Playstation 2, and was better than the Playstation 2, graphically, in some ways, yet, was also considered to be a failure. Was it its awesome design that brought it to fame? If so, was it its original design, or its revised design? Did Sony advertise better? How could one console, sell over 120 million units? That's just amazing! If the Playstation 2 was such a success, than how come the Playstation 3 is failing so badly? It appears that every, third console, made by a company, becomes a failure... 

Sega:

1. Master System

2. Genesis

3: Saturn (failure)

Nintendo:

1. Nintendo

2. Super Nintendo

3. Nintendo 64 (failure)

Sony:

1. Playstation

2. Playstation 2

3. Playstation 3 (failure)

And once the first console fails, the following consoles, usually also fail. The Wii managed to pull itself from the grave, which is pretty remarkable, and it's killing the Xbox 360, and Playstation 3. But the Playstation 2 is still fighting, and refusing to die. There are many games, planned to be released, in the future, for the Playstation 2, which may keep the Playstation 2 alive, even further. So when will the Playstation 2 die? If the Playstation 3 dies, will it take the Playstation 2 down with it, or will it live on? Will it die next year, or within the next two years, or will it survive even longer? Well, what do you think?