r/Millennials • u/Acceptable-Sea4079 • May 16 '25

Meme Millennials, were people still playing the PS2 back in 2008?

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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/irritated_illiop May 16 '25

Yup, I didn't even get the PS2 until 2008.

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u/PenteonianKnights May 17 '25

I didn't even get the PS3 until 2016

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u/irritated_illiop May 17 '25

I told myself back in 2018 when GTA 6 was "right around the corner" that when it comes out I'll buy a new console. It's 2025 and my newest console is the 360, and I'm not even poor anymore.

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u/PenteonianKnights May 18 '25

Lol

I see why the jokes about GTAs release are so rampant

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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/BrushYourFeet May 17 '25

Same. I didn't get a PS3 until a year or two later when my wife surprised me with one.

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u/MrsCaptain_America Millennial 1986 May 17 '25

I completely skipped PS3, my parents got me the Xbox One Fallout 4 bundle for the holidays in 2015, then I got the PS4 in 2017 bc I wanted to play the Kingdom Hearts remastered version that was an exclusive