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Zkuq said:

PS2. It's better than PS1, and it plays PS1 games as well. As far as I care, it didn't have any major flaws, unlike the newer consoles. PS3? Plagued by DLC and online pass. PS4? Terrible backwards compatibility (i.e. none), poor discounts despite sales moving towards digital distribution, and I wasn't terribly impressed with the games either. PS5? OK-ish backwards compatibility, but other than that, I'm expecting it to become more of what PS4 was (with terrible availability and consequently pricing as well).

Or, another view: PS1 and PS2 didn't have any nonsense, which started appearing with PS3 and kind of got worse later. It's really more of an issue with the gaming industry in general, but that doesn't really help the newer PS consoles in comparison with the older ones.

The only two flaws the PS2 had, imo, were the dreaded DRE and its relative lack of power compared to Gamecube and Xbox. But with its stellar games, you didn't really miss the added power all that much. DRE, on the other hand, that really ticked me off. My launch console didn't even make it six months. I remember being on the phone with customer service (this was before it became a a thing and Sony lost its lawsuit), holding the phone up to the console so the woman on the other end could hear it squealing like a dying dolphin due to the laser mis-reading haha. It wasn't until the Slim dropped that I finally rid myself of that generation's RROD .

Still, it was the best console that gen by an eon and a half. It wasn't even close.