The main point I was trying to get at was not the PS2 console being able to be bought. It was it is still being supported in a heavy way. Why would anyone want to upgrade to a PS3 when they have a PS2 still getting brand new games? People are not going to buy a new console for $300 unless their current one is getting nothing new

I'm just going to leave this here.

*He editted it right when I quoted it, so I tried as best as I could remember form memory

People. PS2 is still to be MANY years around. Like, here in Brazil the MASTER SYSTEM was discontinued in 2008 and MEGA DRIVE is one of the best selling consoles here.

And it's the reality of the most of under-development countries, the current-gen consoles are just for fanatics from middle class or rich people. They sell the megadrive for 300 BRL with games in memory, the right product a person with a salary of 450BRL and in a country full of piracy.

In some years the place that belongs for Mega Drive now will be of PS2, this the sad reality of Brazilian gaming industry, latest consoles costing 1500BRL and Mega Drive 300BRl.

For the developed world, ps2 is in a curve of declining, don't sell software, there is no high budget project for it, no blockbusters announced. It only chance is to turn in a indie supported plataform and it's huge amount of classics, we should wait for it ends.

Here is a bet that I think I have the better odds on.

The 360 will be discontinued and stop selling before the PS2. Thats right, the PS2 will have outlasted 2 generations of Xbox and sold more then both Xboxes combined by the time its done. 95% certainty.

The PS2 is makeing a lot of money for sony right now. but i think they should
retire it. sometime in 2010...

There are many countries in the world where 360 or PS3 haven't even been released.Those countries are where piracy is rampant so they can only release console when hardware has high profits. For example in China neither PS3 nor 360 has been officially released (perhaps even Wii, it wasn't released officially as of last year at least). Sure, you can easily find them but there is no official support in China. So in those countries PS2 is going to be sold for several years because they simply couldn't afford other consoles and they can't get much money from software. In USA, Japan and europe support and sales is likely to be discontinued soon but not the whole world.

If the Sega Mega drive is currently the leading system they cant pirate games at all so they have to buy original games ? But where do you get games for sega mega drive ? And whats with the 32 Bit area you skiped one gen completly. From 16 bit to 128 bit. 

@coolguy You read the first post on this page the MEGA DRIVE is the current number one Console in Brasil and the PS2 will be officialy launched in Brasil now. So why should they discontinue the PS2 if it just released. They make money on the hardware so even if the Console is pirated heavy its still a win situation for sony. @inventedlotus23 Whats with the PS1 or the N64 the Mega Drive is 16 bit gen and now they release the PS2 ? You skiped one gen completly. Are the people buying atleast SOME orginal games or is everything pirated

They just don't buy games, all the games comes in the memory of the system. There is near 90 games that comes in systems memories. Many Mega Drive classics and many original games developed by TecToy or adaptations from Cell Phones games. There is no cartridge entrance for it. Brazil is a great hardware consumers, but terrible software consumer.

The PS1 was heavily imported and pirated here, the N64 was released oficially by a company called Gradiente. The N64 were way too expensive here, when a ps1 costed 600 BRL it costed 1000BRl, and there was no piracy for N64, so it just wasn't popular here. 

The NES,SNES,N64,GC,GB and GBA were all released here officially by the same company, there were plenty of original games too, but PS1 and PS2 came with all their piracy and just killed Gradiente gaming division. There's a company called Tec Toy that produced and still producing Sega consoles here, they released all of them. The DC and Saturn just didn't stand a chance with piracy, there were a study at the time that for each original game sold there were sold 10 pirated copies of the same game.

The only place where original games are big are ironically with PS3 that is popular even beeing piracy-proof(duo to the strenght of playstation brand here) and PC(going against the worldwide logic). Now with MS selling 360 with warranty the originals are getting strong as well. For Wii, Ds and PSP, well, many people already buy them hacked.

But even being expensive, piracy is a culture here, I know many people that receives 10.000BRL monthly(pretty good salary), have the latest cars, expensive eletronics but just don't pay 30 BRL in a movie, imagine 200BRL in a game? Why pay 30BRL in movie if I can get it for 3BRL? This is why we will never be a software consumer.

maybe...

lol i saw somebody at the bus stop yesterday with a brand new PS2 and i was like wtf lol.
but i think it sold more than 138 million i think sony said last e3 or before that that the ps2 had sold over 142 consoles.