Before you jump on him, check out the multiplat sports games differentials on the 360 and PS3. The PS2 is a thorn in the PS3's side, even though it gives Sony extra money. If they want the PS3 to get more support from the PS2 installed base, then they need to end the PS2 and allow the next gen systems to expand.

Can't prove it completely, though you certainly don't have any good evidence.  NPD survey says PS2 owners are choosing the wii, Japan sales show clearly people are choosing the wii, with wii sales 3 to 1 over PS3 there is no way there is that many new gamers.

Exactly how big was this survey ? I don't remember being asked and i'm a PS2 owner.

With the recent performance of the PS3 your sinking ship analogy is some what invalid. I believe that the Wii/360 are intense competition for the PS3 but that still doesn't eliminate brand loyalty (brand loyalty which enabled the PS3 to sell in europe last year without any games and the loyalty which enables the PS3 to sell in japan with lackluster support)

people seem to believe that the Wii's success kills any chance of the PS2 owners wanting to jump to PS3 but I disagree , I think Nintendo's strategy of targeting every gaming audience makes it very difficult for them to apeal to a core gaming audiences in the same way the PS3 & 360 is able to.

I think the 360 struggles to differentiate itself as console and fails to completley offer itself as an alternative to the playstation brand , the only time the 360 has been able to outsell the PS3 recently is through price cuts .(yes the PS3 has had more price cuts but let's keep price point in mind ).

My main point is that despite the success of the Wii and the XBOX brands new found dominance , the playstation brand still has something unique and different to offer to the PS2 userbase , if any other current gen console had software support as bad as the PS3's or a price point as high as the PS3's i'm sure 100% that console would have failed to succeed. It's brand loyalty that helped the PS3 survive but it's the PS2 that limits the continued growth of the PS3, it's still a very viable option for gaming even against what this gen has to offer.

Yea...that's if you assume that all those people will go from the PS2 to the PS3.

Your argument is flawed because you accept PS3 numbers as successful, yet what is success??? So far, from Sony's stand point of view it appears that success is selling more than 360. If so, then yes, you're right that the PS3 is successful, however in the eyes of the market the PS3 is a failure because its failing to deliver what PS2 did where as the wii, the truly dominant console, its having the same success with surpassing numbers.

Then you point out Wii success will not kill any opportunity of PS2 owners jumping to the PS3. I ask you, how can you prove that? Are you going physically ask person to person that owns a PS2 whether they will get a Wii or a PS3? That paragraph is totally irrelevant and all it does is to state that Wii is the one and only successful console.

 Finally, you claim that your main point is the success of the Wii and Xbox brands and then it contradicts itself with brand loyalty. Again, can you prove that brand loyalty is making the PS3 a sucess? Not quite because it sure isn't putting it at Wii's level of sales or at least PS2 levels. It also contraditcs your very own original posst where you seem to be basing success only on sales, whereas you want to base it on a manner that cannot be measured (brand loyalty).

You can expect a percentage to go to the PS3. If the PS2 customers get cut off they will use up the PS2 to its fill and need a new gaming experience. It doesn't matter who they go to, Sony needs to drop it.

Cut them off from what?  Sony moved on a long time ago.  The only games that are being released are games that would have no chance on the PS3 or multi-platform games.  Are you saying that Sony should pull the ps2 from stores and ban 3rd parties from releasing games for it?  I don't think that would go over very well, and there are so many ps2 systems out there that used system sales would continue anyway.

What Sony did last gen is no different than what they are going to do this gen with then 10 year plan. They need to cut the PS2, to ensure that more people will come to the PS3 when the serious price cuts occur after. For what they've done they have already had to cut the production costs down by half. I think that Sony should allow the rest of the shipped PS2's to sell and end the shipping of that model. PSP's can stay, because they're handhelds. This has caused a huge disproportion of consumer funds in the industry. The money is flying around everywhere and not being accounted for where it should count in this gen. I loved the PS2, I still have mine, but for the sake of the newer gen it needs to be ended, because compared to installed base, sales are horrible.