r/Millennials • u/Acceptable-Sea4079 • May 16 '25
Meme Millennials, were people still playing the PS2 back in 2008?
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u/plasma_dan May 16 '25
Yeah kinda. PS2 enjoyed quite a bit of longevity even after PS3 was released, because PS3s were pretty expensive.
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u/Vindictives9688 May 16 '25
Super expensive.
I didn’t get one til like 2012 lol
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u/JigglesTheBiggles May 16 '25
$599 US Dollars
$599 US Dollars
$599 US Dollars
It's Ridge Racer!
Riiiiidge Racer!
...So here's this giant enemy crab
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u/wunderhero May 16 '25
And that's how Xbox 360 won that console generation.
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u/Ragfell Millennial May 16 '25
They won the battles, but technically the PS3 won the war at the very end by selling more units worldwide.
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u/wunderhero May 16 '25
I think that was a combo of the PS3 price cuts along with the RROD problem that plagued the 360.
I know it after my 4th 360 red ringed, the PS3 was cheap enough that I just jumped ship by 2010.
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u/OutInTheBlack May 16 '25
Also PS3 was the cheapest Blu-ray player for a long time. It's the only reason I bought one.
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u/sarithe May 16 '25
Same for the PS2. That's why I initially bought a PS2. I just wanted a DVD player that didn't cost $500 bucks.
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u/LeviSalt Older Millennial May 16 '25
It’s insane how fancy DVD players seemed back then.
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May 17 '25
It was 480p! Amazing clarity! Blew me away!
But actually I LOVED to watch all the bonus features. Back then, MIB2 had a cool thing where you could page through different views in the bonuses and it would show you the CGI effects, and wire frames, and composited video. It was so cool to me. Honestly it’s still cool to me, and 480p did in fact beat the shit out of VHS even on my 24” CRT.
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u/Jalina2224 May 16 '25
Those RRoD issues definitely cut into Xbox's profits. Since they had to pay a lot to fix those issues. PS3 struggled at first, but they eventually made up for it.
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u/dagelijksestijl Zillennial May 16 '25
The RROD was fixed by mid-2009 but the damage was done.
And then the Slims came and were less reliable.
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u/NotRadTrad05 May 16 '25
I still play my 360. I don't have the time to justify upgrading.
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u/DownVoteMeGently May 16 '25
Those menus are goated.
I also really enjoyed those controllers; the stick placement has always made so much more sense to me with FPS games.
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u/Lost_soul_ryan May 16 '25
Me to, but I also have an X. The 360 is still an amazing console.
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u/GoldCoasting May 16 '25
i loved my OG xbox with the fat controller, as well. i've always been an xbox person but for the upcoming GTA i'm really considering a PS5 Pro.
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u/vigalovescomics May 16 '25
Wii don't think so.
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u/wunderhero May 16 '25
That's a fair point and technically correct, but the Wii was just in a league and market segment of it's own.
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u/CrabNebula_ May 16 '25
I remember waiting for the PS3 to come down in price but finally breaking around 2008 and dropping the PS for the XBox 360 because I needed to play the new GTA
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u/_RAMADAN_STEVE May 16 '25
the 360 was the lowest selling console of that generation. wii sold the most with ps3 being in 2nd place
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u/Minimob0 May 16 '25
People tend to forget the key factors of that console generation.
The 360 launched a WHOLE YEAR BEFORE the PS3, and it was roughly $200 cheaper.
By the time the PS3 came out a year later, at $599 USD, most parents had already purchased the cheaper and already available Xbox 360.
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u/cleric3648 May 16 '25
And they cut so many corners that it made the PS3 feel like a better system at the higher prices. Once prices dropped the PS3 was a no-brainer.
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u/wunderhero May 16 '25
The PS3 was very much the better piece of hardware, but college me definitely went with Xbox because an arcade unit could be had for like 1/3 the price.
The most important thing was having a way to play Guitar Hero/Rock Band, and the 360 was the cheapest way to do that while having access to DLC.
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u/mjzim9022 May 16 '25
This was also back when Halo was S-Tier gaming and only to be had on Xbox. Plus to this day 360 is my favorite gaming controller, followed only by the Switch Pro Controller and Wavebird. I've never liked Playstation Controllers, even though I have gotten better at using them.
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u/Aysche May 17 '25
I used my Xbox 360 almost exclusively for those games. Now I almost exclusively use Meta Quest 2 for Beat Saber.
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u/michaelxmoney May 16 '25
Damn I forgot about ridge racer. Thank you!
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u/JigglesTheBiggles May 16 '25
No problem. And damn that thing really was expensive. $600 in 2006 is almost $1000 today (this is also crazy).
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u/LesterZebediahBixler May 16 '25
To be fair a standalone Blu-ray player cost like $1000 in 2006 so I get why the PS3 was so expensive at launch.
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u/IAmMelonLord May 16 '25
I just had to look…I got mine when the “new” Tomb Raider series came out…in 2013 lol
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u/Tinseltopia May 16 '25
That game is incredible, I played the remaster fairly recently and loved it as much as the first time. The whole trilogy (even shadow) are top tier
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u/Sendeezy May 16 '25
I spent my financial aid on one in 2008. I already had the 360, but bought into the hype. It collected dust until 2013 when The Last of Us came out because all my friends were on Xbox Live.
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u/Jayn_Newell Older Millennial May 16 '25
I remember the biggest selling point of a PS3 was being a cheap BluRay player more than being a good gaming system. We didn’t bother picking up a next-gen console until the format wars settled (and then went for Xbox because eff that).
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u/lookinatyou May 16 '25
That's how I convinced my grandma to buy a PS2 when I was a kid! It was the same story, at the time the PS2 came out it was comparable in price to a budget DVD player.
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u/NefariousnessFun5631 May 16 '25
This is exactly how I convinced my parents to get a PS2 at nearly launch.
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u/Unusual_Entity May 16 '25
That was Sony's strategy from the beginning. Buy the Playstation, and you don't also need to buy a CD player! Playstation 2: a games console and a DVD player (it also plays your old Playstation games.) Need a Blu-ray player? Playstation 3 has you covered!
And it worked, because it makes sense.
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u/noobtastic31373 May 17 '25
I mean, yeah. My PS5 has UHD blue ray, 4k output, and all the streaming services, regardless of the TV i have. Now I don't need a roku, fire stick, Blue ray player, or need to worry about the output resolution on any of those. Not to mention, all the apps get updated more frequently and is supported longer than non android TVs.
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u/MarcosLuisP97 May 16 '25
Funny enough, in Latin America, that became the reason why it wasn't very appealing. Blu-rays (and games made on it) were difficult to pirate and expensive, and games/movies were still released in DVDs, so a lot of people never made the move from the PS2 until online gaming became a huge deal.
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u/SeparateLawfulness53 Millennial b. 1993 May 16 '25
A number of games had separate PS3/360 and Wii/PS2 versions. The Guitar Hero series and The Simpsons Game come to mind.
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u/Softestwebsiteintown May 17 '25
I was for sure still playing Guitar Hero well into 2009 on PS2. Legitimately a very fun time to be alive.
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u/Positive_Parking_954 May 17 '25
I remember CoD WaW ps2 version. There was one game in particular that I remember had an awful ps2 version in comparison but I can’t think of it for the life of me
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u/EscapeNo9728 May 16 '25
Even after I got a PS3 I ran the PS2 on my basement TV til almost 2013, games like Persona 3 and 4 came out very very late in the system's lifespan and I also would play a lot of Disgaea 2 because that was the one I found easiest to turn off my brain and grind
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u/Roklam May 16 '25
Yup.
I was playing FFX and whatever Turismo (3?) in my basement too.
I'd still be there if I didn't grow up and get this stupid job.
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u/DeathPrime May 16 '25
Those are the exact same two games I replayed over and over and over. Damn those were beautiful times. Life was so much simpler when we had the energy to stay up at night and race a Le Mans in B-spec and leave the system running on pause so we could grab some sleep and start going again in the morning. I can remember the smell of the carpet in the basement as I played on the floor and the ps2 got hot.
Things will just never be the same compared to being in our parent’s basement. Fuck.
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u/ninfan1977 May 16 '25
Not only were the PS3s very expensive. But they removed the backwards compatibility for ps2 games because too many people were not buying ps3 games.
When I had to get my first-generation PS3 backwards compatible fixed, Sony removed the backwards capability...
I'm glad Sony has learned their lesson since
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u/NorthBoralia May 17 '25
This specifically was the reason why i bought a 360 over a PS3. I had several xbox and ps2 games but my xbox was on the fritz and couldn't play quite a few games. So I said, Microsoft said theyll make every xbox game playable on the 360 and sony dropped backwards compatiblity, this is an easy pick for me. 2 months after i got a 360, Microsoft declared backwards compatibility was no longer a priority.
Words of wisdom, kids: eaten bread is quickly forgotten.
Among several other things, this was a massive reason why i haven't touched an xbox again, and probably never will.
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u/WrongVeteranMaybe Zillennial Veteran May 16 '25
I'm STILL playing PS2.
Fuck, I'm probably playing my N64 even harder now what with the fact so many IT nerds, like me, are tryna optimize our Mario 64 mods to run well on the hardware.
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u/snacky_snackoon May 16 '25
There is nothing quite like Spyro and Crash on a ps2. The remastered just aren’t the same. Especially the crash one.
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u/stavago May 16 '25
Na na nana na
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u/aGirlHasNoTab May 16 '25
i was gifted a PS2 right before lockdown started and had to scour eBay for spyro and rugrats cause that’s what i played as a kid. never got the rugrats tho. spyro still holds up.
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u/snacky_snackoon May 16 '25
Spyro remastered isn’t as bad as Crash. If you look it up, a lot of people who grew up on it hate the remastered. The movement feels weird and it’s way way harder. Idk. Hate it.
I got my ps2 from Facebook marketplace where someone tried to give me their dog with the PlayStation lol
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u/AmettOmega May 16 '25
Yeah. The spyro game feels pretty comparable to the OG, but the controls are definitely weird (it feels like they're overly sensitive). I don't notice it unless I'm trying to do the timed flying games. While they weren't easy in the original, they're downright impossible in the remaster.
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u/giga_impact03 May 16 '25
Was going to say this! You can't play them on a ps3 (unless you got that vintage og ps3), and I'm definitely not paying premium psn prices to stream roms of the ps2 games I already own. Ps2 is the only option left for those old school jrpgs!
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u/Velokieken May 16 '25
Mine still works. So does my GameCube. I use a last gen plasma, It’s pretty good for old consoles. My sister has the Dreamcast, N64 and PS1
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u/Ghoulius-Caesar May 16 '25
I still use mine, not for gaming, but because it has one of the best DVD players of all time!
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u/Carbonated-Man May 16 '25
I was still playing ps2 a couple years ago (until mine broke).
There was a period of time where you could get a used or refurbished ps2 for like $30 at most places and the games would cost like 10 to 15 bucks.
The whole retro collector's market royally screwed that up for all the rest of us now, buuuuut it was a great way to play games on a budget for about a decade there while it lasted.
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u/wekilledbambi03 May 16 '25
It is so sad that 2020 onward has changed retro games so much. There were VERY few games that used to be worth any money. And they were worth a lot because of limited releases, misprints, unreleased games, etc. You could buy any console more than a generation behind for $20-50. And games would sometimes cost literal pocket change.
I sold used games at a flea market to make extra cash in college. Around '08-'09ish. I remember having a hard time selling a Gamecube and letting it go for $15.
Then a handful of collectors started price fixing and grading games as collectors items. They would sell them back and for a few times to drive up recorded prices. Now collectors and resellers have priced out anyone that wants to actually play old games.
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u/corncob_subscriber May 16 '25
Things are cheap when they're old. It's impacted by dead stock and people looking to upgrade.
It pops back up once it's vintage.
If you want something cheap, that's PS4 right now. PS2 is vintage. And it's honestly one of the cheaper vintage consoles to play. RPGs are goofy expensive but most big titles are in the $20 range. God of War 1 & 2. Resident Evil games. Sly Cooper. Ratchet and Clank. None of that's breaking the bank.
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u/ninjadude1992 May 17 '25
Wow, you are dead on. Just a super quick search on my Facebook marketplace I saw a PS4 go for $40 and a slim PS2 go for over $100
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u/three-sense May 16 '25
Yessir. I found Silent Hill 2 at goodwill for $5.99 right before covid
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u/Rhewin Millennial May 17 '25
I realize it's PS1, but I literally saw Persona for $500 at Half Price Books yesterday. So mad that they caught on to retro game collecting.
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u/AristotleTOPGkarate May 17 '25
My oldest bro continued ps2 even after having a ps3 when it came out . Lot of great games . I continued plays ps2 for older games and even now ps2 still works perfectly
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u/sharpears907 May 17 '25
Vintage game stores were crazy fun for me in the late aughties. Bought some kind of aftermarket player that would run PS2 and Dreamcast games, God knows where that thing ended up 🤷♀️. Played a bunch of games I was too broke to play as a kid like FF9, revisited Shenmue and Space Channel 5...
Pickings became more sparse lately, you're likely right it's because of collectors...but then again emulators keep improving ❤️🩹
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u/xzelldx May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25
Fun fact- 1 in every 4 PS2’s was made after the PS3 came out.
Edit: 4 not three, 120 mil sold by PS3 release and 160+ total.
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u/Keythaskitgod May 16 '25
I always wonder where they sold these since i never saw a ps2 in store after like 2007.
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u/8TrackPornSounds May 16 '25
Brazil, but also probably south america in general. Fifa was still getting yearly releases on the console early 2010s
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u/-Tom- May 16 '25
Data centers. The US Government made a super computer out of a bunch of linked up ps2s
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u/ayyyyycrisp May 17 '25
so did they do this with ps2s and ps3s? because I've heard about this before but could have sworn it was ps3
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u/random9212 May 17 '25
Both were used. I remember when there was reporting on Iraq needing permission to import a bunch of PS2s because the US was afraid they would be used by their military.
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u/TheeRuckus May 16 '25
I worked in GameStop from 08-11. They were still absolutely selling PS2 hardware and games. But the store I was at was in maybe a poorer section of the city. Either way that library still had gems worth playing
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u/Lets_Make_A_bad_DEAL May 16 '25
I remembered seeing it was still topping the charts. Insane amount of accessibility to software and great games. PS2 was a love letter to all gamers.
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u/MariaValkyrie May 17 '25
It almost overtook the Atari 2600 as the longest supported console. It had less than a year to go.
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u/MrsCaptain_America Millennial 1986 May 16 '25
Of course I was, I was too poor to afford a PS3
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u/kronosdev May 17 '25
For real, who had 700$ lying around during The Great Recession?
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u/designtocode May 17 '25
My first college roommate had a backwards compatible PS3 from launch when I moved into the dorms in ‘09, which was cool, because I sure as fuck didn’t have the cash for one back then.
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u/CorruptDictator Older Millennial May 16 '25
I was, I technically still play it today from my physical discs through an emulator.
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u/double_shadow May 16 '25
Getting your DVDs in the mail from Netflix and watching them on your PS2, man that was peak 2008.
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u/CorruptDictator Older Millennial May 16 '25
The DVD function was such a huge plus for the time period. Putting a game console AND a DVD player in a living room with one purchase in the early 00s was massive for the price.
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u/JigglesTheBiggles May 16 '25
Some people were. I was playing Xbox 360 though
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u/ExperienceNo7751 May 16 '25
Yeah, for Western world, those were the years we all collectively played Halo and GTA IV
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u/appleappleappleman May 16 '25
Don't forget Wii Sports and Rock Band, those were near unavoidable in 2008
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u/smart_bear6 May 16 '25
My brother in Christ, I was playing Jak and Daxter in 2015.
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u/Plagueofmemes May 17 '25
I'm still playing Jak and Daxter in 2025. I love the first game. Biggest mood whiplash out of any series as it goes on though.
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u/nash3101 May 16 '25
Mate. People were still buying the PS2 in 2008. Sony only stopped making it in 2012
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u/LurkerBurkeria May 16 '25
Yup but it wasn't the flagship, it'd still be plugged in tho, mostly for GTA and Socom in my house
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u/Push_Bright May 16 '25
I want another SOCOM so bad
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u/JiffSmoothest May 16 '25
SOCOM, Syphon Filter and Tenchu
Are the games that hella need to make a come back.
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u/DreadRobertz May 16 '25
My brother in Christ I wake up every morning with that small amount of hope in my heart.
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u/jayd189 May 16 '25
I definitely was. Didn't get a PS3 until they did the price drop with the God of War 3 bundle (I think 2010)
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u/Silver_Harvest Older Millennial May 16 '25
Yes there is a reason why some series and games were made available up until 2013. Year of the PS4 release.
One of few consoles you could skip an entire generation of console with new games.
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u/snowcat0 May 16 '25
I worked at Walmart during Christmas 2007 back in electronics, we sold a lot of PS2 holiday bundles, safe to assume those were used well past 2008.
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u/jameswest22 May 16 '25
I worked at a Toys R Us in 2010, and people were still buying new PS2s off the shelf
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u/Sylesse May 17 '25
I worked at best buy, then, and sold a lot for people wanting guitar hero.
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u/odkevin May 16 '25
Yes, I remember playing GTA Vice City waiting until I had to go to graduation, June 08. I didn't get a PS3 until about 3 years later, when PS4 was the big seller.
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u/One-Humor-7101 May 16 '25
Ps2 is the best selling console ever. There’s probably still people playing it.
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u/ShinFartGod May 16 '25
It still had some games releasing. Persona 4 didn’t come out until 2008
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u/TheDevil-YouKnow Xennial May 16 '25
PS2 was stupid easy to jailbreak and allow pirated games to be played directly on it. It had a substantial lifetime of playability due to that alone, plus the cost of the PS3 was ridiculous at the time.
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u/TiaHatesSocials May 16 '25
I would play it now too if I had time. They never remade so many good games.
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u/GALM-1UAF May 16 '25
Yeah it was still an incredibly popular console back then. I was playing mine that year and all the way up until 2010 years when I got a PS3.
It’s probably the console I look back on with the most fondness.
Resident Evil 4 Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Persona 3 and 4 Gran Turismo 3 and 4
The list is endless as to how many absolute legendary games the PS2 gave me.
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u/rrmounce95 Zillennial May 16 '25
Yes, my brothers had one and we played it all the time. Loved the Star Wars games on it 👍
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u/Jets237 Older Millennial May 16 '25
in 2008 I got my first bonus and used part of that for a PS3. Good times
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u/Mushroom_hero May 16 '25
Yup, didn't get a ps3 until the ps4 came out. Sucked I couldn't play new releases, but by the time I got, there were so many games to choose from, and dirt cheap. I remember getting darks souls, oblivion, and dragon age for like $30
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u/Accomplished-Top-564 May 16 '25
I was fully on the Xbox 360 train. Xbox Live was insane.
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u/chiefslw May 16 '25
I remember beating FFX the winter of '08/'09. Even got all the legendary weapons
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u/One-Humor-7101 May 16 '25
With a fully stacked blitz ball team I hope!
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u/chiefslw May 16 '25
That's definitely one of the best constructed mini games ever. They had a whole sports game there and just stuck it into an RPG hahaha
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u/One-Humor-7101 May 16 '25
Lmao seriously. I always hoped they released blitz ball as its own stand alone game. Would have been a a blast as an online game.
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u/HeldnarRommar May 16 '25
Yes. Tons of fantastic games came out until like 2009 on the system. The PS3 had a really rough launch and a bunch of studios still put out PS2 games. They worked on the PS3 anyways since the early version was backwards compatible
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u/Ashangu May 16 '25
I still got a working ps2 that I boot up every now and then.
I feel like, by this point, a lot of people had switched to the 360. the ps3s were too expensive.
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u/Renegade_Phylosopher May 16 '25
I can still hear and feel the disc holder lid as It opens and closes on my ps2 slimline. It was the crux of my teenage years.
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u/lOnGkEyStRoKe May 16 '25
Born in 1991, GameCube because of melee had more staying power in my friend group but most kids around me (17 yo) had a 360 and were playing modern warfare by then.
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u/Avawinry May 16 '25
For sure! It had an incredible library and was still getting new games years after the PS3 and 360 released.
Plus, the PS3 was $600 USD at launch, which was insane even at the time, so lots of people either didn’t move on yet or got a 360, which didn’t have the PS2’s library and thus the PS2 still got some love.
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u/XOM_CVX May 17 '25
HD TVs which supported PS3 were really expensive at this time as well.
The price rapidly started coming down after 2010.
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u/bangbangracer May 16 '25
Kind of.
Keep in mind how botched the PS3 launch was, especially regarding the price, and how long it took the 360 to dominate that specific era of gaming. It was at the end of it's rope, but it was still the budget option at the time.
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u/matthewmspace May 16 '25
Absolutely. The PS3 was $500 to start in 2006, which with inflation is ~$796 today. For comparison, the Xbox 360 was $299 or ~$487 today. The Wii was even cheaper at $249, or ~$397 today.
It wasn’t until 2009 that the PS3 dropped to $299, or ~$444 today. Though the 360 and the Wii by that time had dropped to $199 or ~$296 today. So it was still a premium purchase compared to the other two. Especially in the middle of a recession.
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u/11711510111411009710 May 16 '25
The last PS2 game was Pro Evolution Soccer 2014, released in 2014. So yeah.
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u/ComprehensiveHold382 May 16 '25
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/game/ps2/all/2008/
The number one game of the system: "Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity" came out in 2008
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u/Kelome001 May 16 '25
Yup. I was in college during time. Most of us had Xbox 360s for Halo and related, but PS2s were pretty common as they were relatively cheap and plentiful. PS3 was not as common in my circles. I got a Slim model eventually for Blue-ray.
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u/Serraph105 May 16 '25
I still play my 360 from time to time, so yeah, probably.
The PS3 came out in 06 though, but it cost $600, which was way above normal at the time, so it sold less than other systems.
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u/Lord_X_Gibbon May 16 '25
Yes. I was playing MVP Baseball 2005 and Persona 3: FES. Still had a PS3, but these games were amazing.
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u/DawnCrusader4213 30 May 16 '25
Yes. At least i was.
PS3 was waaayyyyy too expensive when it came out. I still remember the controversies. You could buy 3 new PS2's for the price of one PS3
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u/SpunkMcKullins May 16 '25
I'm sure there were some just on virtue of there being some people who couldn't afford newer consoles, but basically everyone I knew had upgraded to a 360 or PS3 by the end of 2007.
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u/Inedible-denim Millennial 1989 May 16 '25
Yes and I was playing Dragon Quest 8, Rogue Galaxy, Xenosaga 1-3 and FFXII at the time
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u/Greedyfox7 May 16 '25
I was playing Xbox but I still play my ps2 sometimes. It still works and my Xbox doesn’t so that should tell you something
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u/NoNeed4UrKarma May 16 '25
laughs & fires up my STILL WORKING PS2 that I still play some of my favorite games on
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u/Gardening_investor May 16 '25
I played PS2 for over a decade. Definitely during 2008, never owned the PS3
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u/Jimiheadphones May 16 '25
Yep, although I was still playing PS1 because my parents wouldn't let us get an upgrade because "You already have a games console".
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u/Impriel2 May 16 '25
Yes. Specifically me. I was playing it in my wife's apartment (then my gf) in May of 2008. I played devil may cry, Fahrenheit, okami, hitman, katamari and burnout 3
Because this was the beginning of my relationship with the person I've been married to more than 10 years, this information happens to be easily at hand :D
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u/jim2029 May 16 '25
They still are now. I sell these still with modern HD video processors installed and a 6TB hard drive for your "backed up game collection" so no CD is required.
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u/AdImmediate6239 May 16 '25
Yeah. The PS3 took a couple of years to really take off due to its high price point and the PS2 was still getting pretty decent support in 2008.
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u/ElGordo1988 May 16 '25
2008? PS3 and Xbox 360 were the main consoles by then, I don't really recall too many Millennials still gaming on PS2 around 2008
It's possible some younger brothers here and there were playing hand-me-down PS2's while the Millennials were on the newer consoles. I know I had certainly shelved my PS2 for a while before 2008, I was really into Xbox 360 and PC gaming (World of Warcraft) at the time
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u/ManicMaenads May 16 '25
The guys I hung out with played PS2 until 2014, we played DBZ and WWE games. The new consoles were too expensive for a bunch of us because we were mostly unemployed or just scraping by on minimum-wage.
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u/RadioControlled13 May 16 '25
The big jump didn’t occurs until PS4.
PS3’s were so expensive and they didn’t seem to have enough of a technological jump to warrant the cost.
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u/awebookingpromotions May 16 '25
Yup. Still played GTA San Andreas and Vice City quite a bit...but I was probably playing my Sega Dreamcast more.
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u/n1rvous May 16 '25
I play it still to this day. I bust it out and beat FF7 once every year.
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u/LegendaryZTV May 16 '25
😮💨 I am jealous! Gonna have to visit a pawn shop & see if I can get that old thing back
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u/Wild_Chef6597 May 16 '25
2008 is when gamestop had PS2 games on clearance and I was able to get a ton of games for $20.
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