The PS2 was only just launched in Brazil, right? It's gonna have a few more years there, yet.

Although it may be discontinued in the West within the next couple of years, I can see it still being sold in CEEC/BRIC economies for at least the next five - and due to the growth of these economies, the world-wide sales of the PS2 might not actually get any lower despite falling sales in the West.

I realize you're not being serious, but the "Ten Year Console Cycle" has been used by those claiming a PS4 won't arrive until ~2016. The fact that PS2 still has support after 10 years doesn't dispute the fact that its successor was launched before the end of that cycle.

If they claimed that they dont know what the are talking about. If I speak from the ten year cicle I think it will be on the market for 10 years but not that there wont be a successor the next ten years. And Sony thinks the same. 10 year cyclce doesnt mean that PS3 will have no successor for ten years. Are you sure that people think there wont be a PS4 until 2016 if they talk about the ten year cycle ? Or could this be just a misinterpretation ? Because infact I never read that someone said the PS4 wont be released until 2016 I havent read it on vgchartz and nowhere else. But I read a lot of statements which showed that some people which critisize the 10 year plan think that Sony means that PS3 wont have an successor for ten years. Thats dumb and Sony knows that if Xbox 720 will be released in 2012 they will be dead if they dont release another console in the next 12 months. 

And infact I cant imagine that Sony fans want that. If Xbox720 would come with a lot more horsepower and Sony would stick JUST with the PS3 and have no new console.  I would buy immediatly a Xbox720. I cant see the strategy behind having not a PS4 until 2016.  

Didn't SONY say the Ps2 had sold 140million Units when it turned 9yrs old a couple of months ago?

If so I'd like to see it go on to sell 150million or more. Then pull the plug, thats a nice Milestone for such a great system.

Yes, the prices here are ridiculously high, but we are used to it, for every electronic product. When a new console launches at the US/Japan, it costs like 1200 dollars in here for the first 2 years, then it starts getting lower. When it hits a price point of 500-700 dollars, the sales rise a lot, and even the medium class starts buying it. The X360 is 500 dollars and PS3 is 700 dollars now. A regular Samsung LCD 42" costs 1800 dollars, and people still buy it (i bought one few months ago), because the price is acceptable, cause we are used to it.

It's estimated that 8 millions PS2 were sold in Brazil from 2001-2008, from US$900 to US$250 (the current price).

Nobody wants it anymore, most people are looking for the X360 because it's hackable.

when ps3 will be 10 years old in each region(march 2010 jp, October 2010 America,November pal)