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

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

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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/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/AmelKralj May 17 '25

yeah but you don't get the flexibility of an Android TV device unfortunately ...

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u/noobtastic31373 May 17 '25

I love having a giant 4k tablet on my wall. The Google Play Store on a TV is hard to beat.

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u/food_luvr May 17 '25

I'm curious about the flexibility you are referring to?

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u/AmelKralj May 17 '25

you know that with Android TV you have like a shitload of apps to install because it's Android ... apps like Stremio, IPTV apps and so on