| grimygunz said: next year will be the PS2's 10th year so they getting ready to close up shop on Ps2. I can bet good money that the Day PS2 out of production that Ps3 will have a price drop. The old slingshot move, let Ps2 offset Ps3 losses till Ps3 is ready to dominate or attempt to dominate. |
PS2 won't be going out of production for a while yet, it will be targeted at emerging markets in the future.
From last TGS:
Speaking at Sony's Tokyo Game Show keynote, Sony president Hirai demonstrated how the PS2 has out-sold the PSone during its eight years on the market, adding that it's now much easier for developers to create games for the system.
"Since I took up my current position, I've been telling my people that we need to go back to basics at SCE," said Hirai at the start of his keynote.
As well as emerging markets, Sony will continue to support the PS2 in the key regions of Japan, Europe and North America.
This isn't unusual, Sega Master System was sold in Brazil for years after it was discontinued in developed markets. Brazil actually ended up being one of it's biggest markets, if not the biggest.
An interesting comment from Sony's E3 press conference was that SCEI are to start distributing PlayStation products in Latin America, but this wasn't elaborated on, so it's unclear if this will include PS3 being launched there. I guess up until now PS2 has been distributed by third parties in this region. I wonder if Latin America will come under SCEA, or if a new "SCELA" division will be set up.
