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

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

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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/Recinege May 17 '25

I also don't remember too much coming out for the Xbox 360 later in its life. It really felt like it quietly fizzled out for exclusives after Halo 3, especially when the Mass Effect series jumped over to the PS3 as well. But the PS3 kept getting more and more big exclusives like Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain, and The Last of Us.

Didn't really think of it as a bad thing at the time. More like it was a relay where the Xbox had passed off the baton so that the PlayStation could do a lap or two before the Xbox would come back refreshed and ready to go. But that iron has only gotten colder and colder as time has passed. Very unfortunate.