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DonWii on 29 May 2007
El Duderino said:
You all got nathatay wrong, its a typo, he wanted to say:"118 million have bought a PS2. That´s a lot of mormons." Lots of wifes, manny manny children , lots of Playstations, see no Trolling at all.

You said it best. So true.

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Arlando909 on 29 May 2007
Inathantay said:
Gballzack said:
PS2 was a poorly built piece of crap though, pity so many good games were exclusive to such a junker of a console.

Too bad for every good game their are 50 crappy ones.

 
Honestly, though, this could be said for just about any system, really.  For every good game that comes out there's always a myriad of crappy ones that come, and that goes for any system.  Not just the PS2.  Not trying to defend it or anything, but that's truth.  Just like for every good book that hits the store shelves, there are a myriad of bad ones.  The thing is, though, if you look at it that way, then the PS2 actually did have a ton of good games if you were to actually look at how big its library was.  I mean if for every fifty crappy games there was one good one, you've got more than enough good games.  But like I said, this is something that could be said about any and every system.  Also, about the PS2 being built so junky.  Yeah, just about all that stuff Gball said was true.  All those things made it to the news as well.  In fact, Sony didn't even work out all the bugs until the 50001+ model which came out in 2004!  Although it is true, it was the games that kept the PS2 afloat.  People bought it because they wanted the games.  It's typically why any gamer buys a system.  The games are far more important than the actual hardware.  Why is the PSP selling less than the DS?  Because of games.  The PSP is good HARDware but it doesn't have the best SOFTware.   As far as I'm concerned, I don't think the DS will beat the PS2 any time soon.  That would depend on how long the PS2 will stay on the market, as well as the DS.  I hear Nintendo is already working on the next handheld console.  But given that the GBA sold over 80 million units and the DS is the fastest selling console in history, there's a very good chance it'll beat the PS2.  As long as Nintendo keeps it on the market for years to come. 

 



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ssj12 on 29 May 2007
Gballzack said:
after seeing the success of the DS, Nintendo decided to keep it as the replacement of the Gameboy.

 is that why they made the Gameboy Micro?



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Poseidon on 29 May 2007

People did buy many PS2s because their originals did break, but that's an argument that's not helping Gamecube or Xbox as people were still willing to shell out money on the weaker console. And yes, the library just stomped a mudhole in the competition.



jjseth on 29 May 2007

Funny, they were plagued by such problems, yet I still have my launch PS2. Works great for me and never had a problem with it. My Xbox360 on the other hand...



 


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Arcturus on 29 May 2007
Gballzack said:

Arcturus you're living under a rock then. The Ps2 is infamous for its failure in quality.

- the original Red light of doom

- The Mechanical eye that had to be recalibrated everytime a new disc format was inserted resulting in a hastened burn out of the drive system.

- The vertical stand option which Sony had to later retract saying that the PS2 shouldn't be played vertically because it could cause it to not read the disc or damage it. One of the signiture features of the PS2, admited to by Sony themselves to be a failure.

- Sony's attempt at the Blue Disc which ruined countless PS2s.

- Plastic drive parts that over time wore down resulting in the drive not working.

- The DVD and CD functions only have limited functionality on many consoles.

- Overheating issues which got worse in the slims.

- The slims not being compatible with the Hard Drive and other peripherals required for certain online games.

It was so riddled with problems that console repair shops and used games stores had to stop taking them because it wasn't worth the effort. Many people who had either voided the warranty or had the warranty expire were forced to buy new ones. It was not a well built system.

And the fact people kept buying it when it broke doesn't prove how good a system it was, it just proved how good the games were. The system was terrible. The PS2 was probably one of the worse built consoles in recent history challenged only by the xbox. It's game library was phenomenal though and with reverse compatibility it was a shoe in.

Listen if you want to play the "show me stats" game, that's fine but all you're doing is just covering your ears and telling yourself what you want to hear when everyone else knows for themselves the truth that the PS2 was a junk heap. Hell it was in the news on CNN about the massive waves of defective units in the initial launches. Anyone at a game store can tell you it was a poorly built system. The PS2 thrived on hype and the monoply established by the PS1, as a console alone it was a trainwreck.


I understand that the PS2 had some quality issues...I'm not ignoring this or denying it. I just want to know how widespread this quality issues were. If the failure rate was 25% of all consoles sold then yes it was poorly built. But if were talking about a failure rate of 0.05% then I would consider that well within normal limits. It would also be nice to get the failure rate stats on the x-box and GC to compare them.



xstonexcold316x on 29 May 2007
FishyJoe said:
More food for thought. The DS has sold twice as much as the PS2 in the same period of time.

 id guess about 80 mil bought the ps2 just they bought it more than 1 time



auroragb on 29 May 2007
ssj12 said:
Gballzack said:
after seeing the success of the DS, Nintendo decided to keep it as the replacement of the Gameboy.

is that why they made the Gameboy Micro?

Gballzack might have meant the DS lite.  While the DS did well, it did not blow PSP out of the water.  So, they went the two prong approach, saying that there would be a next gen GB and DS was not it and launch DS lite and GB micro to see which would do better.  Seems that the lite has captured hearts and minds, so we're hearing less and less of the "next" GB

konnichiwa on 29 May 2007
Gballzack said:
PS2 was a poorly built piece of crap though, pity so many good games were exclusive to such a junker of a console.

 That is the same like the Wii now....






Gballzack on 29 May 2007

@ Konnichiwa: Don't know how Wii quality control issues are in Germany but they're fine everywhere else.

ssj12 said:
Gballzack said:
after seeing the success of the DS, Nintendo decided to keep it as the replacement of the Gameboy.

 is that why they made the Gameboy Micro?

The Gameboy Micro is just a new version of the Gameboy Advanced, its not a new Gameboy handheld and came out roughly the same time as the DS. It wasn't meant to continue the Gameboy line, it was just a more convenient version of the GBA.