TruckOSaurus on 26 June 2017
The DVD player did help sell the PS2 but I agree that the period where the PS2 was seen as a reasonable purchase for someone wanting a good quality DVD player vs standalone DVD players was very short.
As for my personal experience, I bought the PS2 at launch and for the first year, it did serve more as a DVD player than a game console. Back then, there used to be only one or two copies of movies on DVD at the video rental store and they were never rented out because so few people had DVD players. I loved going in and being able to get all the new releases without the fear of all copies being gone.
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