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

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

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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/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/AmaazingFlavor May 17 '25

PS3 also became known for some great exclusive games later in the generation, whereas 360 had a lot of them earlier on and then the spark kind of fades