To keep or not to keep a PS2?!? That is the question!

How many TVs do you have?

You could always save the PS2 as a system for a bedroom, basement, or den TV. Afterall, it does still play CDs, DVDs, Playstation, and PS2 games.

That's about why I keep the Playstation around since I already have a PS2 in my living room. Actually, my gf is playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night in the bedroom right now on the old Playstation.
 
Who dares bump thy thread?! Oh wait it's Fire. Nvm, false alarm...

Well this is actually a good reminder of why it's important to keep a PS2, since Sony is killing off all means of backwards compatibility.
 
MegaDrive20XX said:
Who dares bump thy thread?! Oh wait it's Fire. Nvm, false alarm...

Well this is actually a good reminder of why it's important to keep a PS2, since Sony is killing off all means of backwards compatibility.
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And this is the greatest news. People will likely not toss games into the dumpster and trade them in. Maybe Game Stop will start selling old school wares too. :D
 
According to my Sony rep:

"As of right now, none of the PS3s will have backwards compatibility any more. Going forward, we want to affiliate the PS3 with only PS3 games. Anyone who still wants to play PS2 games can keep their old PS2s, or buy one of the new ones."

:o
 
Yes, because Sony feels "Backwards compatibility is NOT an important issue".

The PS2 is still selling like hotcakes and Sony knows this.
 
Joyling said:
According to my Sony rep:

"As of right now, none of the PS3s will have backwards compatibility any more. Going forward, we want to affiliate the PS3 with only PS3 games. Anyone who still wants to play PS2 games can keep their old PS2s, or buy one of the new ones."

:o
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That's really a huge turn-off, if you ask me. Especially when Sony's competitors are both backwards compatible this gen. Sony apparently doesn't realize (or they probably just don't care) that there are people who would be able to get PS3s if they could trade in their PS2s towards it. But, since they have to keep PS2s to play PS2 games, they can't get a PS3.
 
Mai Valentine said:
That's really a huge turn-off, if you ask me. Especially when Sony's competitors are both backwards compatible this gen. Sony apparently doesn't realize (or they probably just don't care) that there are people who would be able to get PS3s if they could trade in their PS2s towards it. But, since they have to keep PS2s to play PS2 games, they can't get a PS3.
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if my sister would have not bought a ps3 earlier that would be our case and our problem right now
 
Mai Valentine said:
That's really a huge turn-off, if you ask me. Especially when Sony's competitors are both backwards compatible this gen. Sony apparently doesn't realize (or they probably just don't care) that there are people who would be able to get PS3s if they could trade in their PS2s towards it. But, since they have to keep PS2s to play PS2 games, they can't get a PS3.
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Not to mention, confusing as hell when working in retail :) I had 3 customers tell me that Best Buy SAID that their 80GB models are BC. Which is a freakin' lie. So I grabbed him by his big fat head and said "I DONT WERK FOR YOU OR ANYBODY!!!"...then he ran....yeah it was a great day...wait I cant back that up.....

Anyways, the point is, if Sony didnt make so many revised models of their own system...they wouldn't be losing so much money. Yet, you are totally right, if the Wii is BC and the 360 is BC. Isn't it time that Sony release something like an update patch to allow the users to play PS2 games, since it is nothing but Emulation to begin with?
 
they way i view it, newer systems (PS3, Wii, DS, 360) should be the old systems (PS2, GC, GBA, X-box) with new modifications.
 
Sony murdered Sega.

Humilated GameCube and the original Xbox in sales.

To roughly translate:

NEEEEEEEEAAAAL BEFORE ZOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
RJ1022 said:
they way i view it, newer systems (PS3, Wii, DS, 360) should be the old systems (PS2, GC, GBA, X-box) with new modifications.
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So essentially, you don't want them to drastically move forward.
 
fhqwhgads said:
So essentially, you don't want them to drastically move forward.
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Yes, if you don't consider doubling processing capabilities drastically moving forward. You don't need to reinvent the wheel to move forward. We can move forward drastically in flight without changing the basic engine structure (the basic jet engine hasn't had a drastic makeover in 50 years, and look how much flight has advanced in that time) of our planes, so, why can't the same principal be applied to gaming? Why can't something like Bioshock be considered a drastic move forward? Because you're using the same controls as other FPS's? Why must you change the hardware in order to move forward drastically?
 
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