What made the PS2 one of the most successful video game consoles in history?
games
good gamesgood marketinggames were still mostly made by nerds for nerdssaving families the cost of a separate movie player
Black people and Mexicans unironically.
>>732210714Video games
>>732210714For me: RPGs and lots of them.For everyone else: FIFA.
>>732210714Games. Hundreds of solid games titles and the fact it was a DVD player.
>>732210714Third world poverty stricken countries. Games that appealed to the retard masses like GTA.
>>732210714>Gen 6, arguably the greatest gen to this day>muh dvd pluher>GTA 3, J&D, sly cooper, R&C, GoW, FFX, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and a fuck ton moreI was a gc and xbfag gen 6, but I can still appreciate the value PS2 brought
>>732211669gen 6 was full of soul and you ate well regardless of allegiance. gaming only went downhill from there
>>732210714piracy.being a dvd player.
>>732210714video games
>piracy.>being a dvd player.delet this.
>>732212678Piracy wasn't all that common until the end of its lifetime. Mod chips existed but were absolute nightmares to install. It really kicked off with FreeMcBoot and memory cards like Memor32 (still have mine) that you could connect to a PC to actually load the exploit on to.
>>732212338just the rpg section mogs every console ever made, how the fuck did they do it?
>>732210714Lies
>>732210714It was a cheap dvd player riding on ps1 hype. Thats why it was commercially successful. Good unit sales = larger install base = more third party support.
>>732213323this tendie cope is so funny, you fags are so fucking mindbroken
>>732210714the ps1
>>732212980Because sega was dying and the previous gen nintendo alienated square with cartridges so they moved to sony and everyone else followed. It carried over to ps2.
>>732210714Being the successor to the previous most successful video game console in history.
>>732210714catching on in the right way at the right time, early to mid 6th gen was basically the peak of gaming since hardware was getting solid but games were still being made by small teams on modest budgets with an actual creative vision.
>>732210714backwards compatibility, and a massive library
>>732212338SNES and PS1 have better JRPGs than the PS2. Other genres mixed-in, you're probably right though
>>732213394Ps2 probably had the greatest library of any console ever, im not denying that. He asked why it was succesful, i gave an honest answer.
Why is everyone selling the PS2 as a DVD player? Where I live, no one used it for that. If you wanted to play DVDs, you got a separate DVD player.
>>732213502agreed but ps2 was still pretty solid, especially for action rpgs
>>732213536>Ps2 probably had the greatest library of any console everit really doesn't. It had a few higher highs but for the most part the ps1 has the superior library.
>>732213557Because /v/ never owned a PS2 and they just repeat what youtuber man says.
>>732212338Goated library, but nigga 9 out of 10 people on ps2 had the damn thing to play gta a driver and some sports shovelware. Like any other system. Nobody bought it to play godhand or your favorite jarpig or obscure fromsoft game. People didnt buy this thing to play ico. I am not suggesting that ps2 is alone in that either thats just how console sales work. When the ps2 launched, it didnt have this massive library you ever think about that?
>>732213782Not who i meant to reply to, fuck it whatever
>>732213782shut up faggot
>>732213608Besides Square shit and Crash, everything’s a step up from PS1
>>732213782>Nobody bought it to play godhand or your favorite jarpig
>>732210714ThirdiesThe Switch is going to outsell it btw
>>732213557Everyone you knew bought as a game console because you were born post y2k. Buying a ps2 in 2006 was very different from buying a ps2 in 2001. At time little niggy, the system didnt have 4 thousans fucking games yet. So the primary reason to buy it, was because people (reasonably) expected it would have a library comparable to the ps1 and or, it made sense financially because it was a 2 for 1 deal as a dvd player console comboIm not saying niggas bought it JUST for dvds that would be insane, but a LOT of people that bought it, were parents who wanted to fucking watch house md or whatever fuck or the 70s show on their fucking dvd player AND give their kids a console to play on
I've been using one as my primary platform for a while now with an OPL hard drive and I've yet to encounter a wall or a lull where I felt like I didn't have something to play. I've finished 7 games this year on it already and won't be slowing down anytime soon.
>>732213848Oh how times changehttps://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UB2239-PPSA35508_00-67THEGAME000SIEA
>>732213848Nobody bought it for the shit i crossed out, all good games but get real
ERM YEAH, I DECIDED TO WAIT TO SEE THE LAUNCH LINEUPS FOR ALL 4 GEN 6 CONSOLES AMD THEN I CHOSE THE ONE WITH ALL THE CLASSIC POPULAR 3RD PARTY GAMES, I BOUGHT THE PS2 BECAUSE IN 2001 I KNEW IT WOULD JAVE SH3 MGS3 SANANDREAS GOW AND DMC3 ACKSHUALLY
>>732214026not entirely untrue but many people bought it in anticipations of sequels
>>732214257this but ironically
>>732213848Dreamcast mogs
>>732214540lol
>>732214130i got silent hill 2
>>732214592It's true though.
>>732214401everyone i know bought it for FFX and MGS2
>>732214661>>732214540>gotcha forceYou can beat this game with 1 button btw. Anyone who praises it has zero standards.
>>732215112This has been deboonked.
>>732215139It has been rebunked. You are not a good graphic designer by the way, as your shitty gamecube collage demonstrated your aesthetic senses are completely fried.
>>732210714It was cheap, had good games and it was easy to pirate onAnd also could play DVDs although I never saw anyone do that
>>732215179You spread lies about the GODcube, common third worlder seethe at white culture.
>>732215245Povertycube has earned its place as the worst console of the generation, and it is due to brown turdworlders such as yourself pretending games like gotcha force are good.
>>732210714Good games made for straight men with soul.
>DVD player>strongest third party support>massive library with huge varietyThat thing was a JRPG machine.
>>732210714A lot of games, a fair amount of good games, and what really set it monumentally over the edge was that it was a DVD player. It was in some cases cheaper than a DVD player.
>>732215294PS2 fans are objectively the most brown and impoverished of all console fans.
>>732215294>>732215179this fag shows up in random 5th and 6th gen threads with collages of shitty Saturn games and calls everyone brown btw
>>732214661Out of those only Mario Kart and Viewtiful Joe were good and Viewtiful Joe got ported to PS2 later
Why would you care if someone is brown or not on /v/? People discuss videogames here, not race. You can go to /pol/ if you want that.
>>732215628>Viewtiful Joe got ported to PS2 laterWith shitty graphics and framerate
>>732215652and when you tell them that japs aren't white they get a melty
>>732215628All ports to PS2 were downgraded.
>>732215757Of course they aren't White. The Japanese are Asian.
The fact that it had no competition. Sega released the worst garbage in "Dream Cast", Nintendo had the Gamecube which we back in the time used to call the GamePUBE because it was so childish and pathetic. XBOX had a controller for a person with the hands the size of a gorilla and was still new.
>>732215862they are yellow and brownish
>>732215652Because browns are poorfag pirates with shit taste
>>732210714it wasn't, it barely sold some 40-50 million real units, everything else was just sony pulling magic numbers from random african and south american countries, they just found some 15 million additional receipts in Botswana as I type this, truly fantastic
>>732216143are you ok tendie?
>>732210714>dvd player>a failure rate that is even higher then the 360I'm sorry but its true. The failure rate is huge but mostly happend outside of warranty so sony didnt pay for it like xbox did. If you have a big game library, for sure you are buying another one. Fact check me, faggots
>>732216612the PS2 had a high laser failure rate becaue everyone used low quality pirated burned DVDs and the laser struggled to read it and then burned out, even tho the fix was cheap, i replaced mine for like $40 after 7 years of playing it every fucking day
Tip: never take a nigga seriously when they believe only one of anything is good e.g. one genre, one series in an entire genre, one game platform, whatever. I dont know how these niggas rationalize their opinions yeah somehow MY thing is the best and only valid one yeah: absolute insanity >>732216612All 360 fats die, and i think it was like more than half if theyre actively played for just a couple years.Ps2 failure rate isnt nearly as bad. Infact, nothing is to my knowledge that fat 360 was a huge anomaly. Even the fat ps3 doesnt come close.
>>732216965360 isn't an anomaly when you consider that the original Xbox is also a broken piece of shit. It's a Microsoft problem.
>>732215515>vgh...it's the poopdick schizo!yawn.>>732215480I thought so until I met Nintendo fans and PC gamers.
>>732215112It was alright. I beat the story mode a few years ago and had fun, but it certainly didn't live up to the praise it got in /vr/.
>>732214130I played most of those later, when I think of playing PS2 in 2001 I remember playing>MGS2, SSX Tricky Agent Under Fire, GTA 3, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2What a year
>>732216965I think the ps2's perceived high failure rate is solely due to the fact it sold shit tons of units, so naturally the number of people is gonna be stupidly big, same way people say samsung TVs have high failure rates, it's because everybody buys them so there're lots of reported problems
>>732217352>I thought so until I met Nintendo fans and PC gamers.Those have far more variety than PS2 fans. Look up anything PS2 homebrew related and it'll all be in some turd world language.
>>732217537A big factor is people use them a lot. Early PS2 problems were fixed by the next year across all regions. 39K and newer consoles (the majority of the 160,000,000) are great. Worst problem they have is dust on a lens causing read errors.
>>732210714>basically had a year and a half of no real competition in the market
>>732217072The 360 was partly negligence partly nvidia. The og xbox wasnt too bad for failure rates. Everything past 360 is a no games we have ps4 at home box so who gives a shit lol but i think they dont brick idk
Twenty trillion tonnes of shovelware
>>732217887>The og xbox wasnt too bad for failure rates.It's just as bad as 360s today, countless means of failure. Even the slim 360s are dying rapidly these days.
>>732217979>It's just as bad as 360s todayAbsolutely not you retard.
>>732217912Are you gonna say all of this is shovelware? >>732212338
>>732217912I'm sure the PS2 install base was absolutely dying to play Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys back when it came out
>>732218027It's a console with one guaranteed exploded cap, CPU caps that are likely failed as well, an ancient HDD that's required just to boot, likely corroded traces on the board leading to the power button. The list goes on.
>>732217912That's literally every tendie console
>>732218061More than half of that shit is shovelware. Sony fans are allergic to curation.
>>732213557you could watch jackass the movie with your friends in your bedroom away from the watchful eyes of your parents and have a gay old timeit was capable of HD playback at the time when a lot of shitty old home PCs weren'tyou could burn your own pirated movies and they played on it just fine no issue, in an era where dialup was still prevalent, so media was harder to transfer so physical borrowing & loaning was ripe and commonhell, people even went to THEATERS to watch new movies back then, because they didn't have a device that was 24/7 connected to high speed internet to stream it instead, imagine that??why do you have a problem billing PS2 as a DVD player when it literally was?
>>732218249ok dudedab on us by dropping your epic saturn macro with the quirky shmup 10 people bought in japan in 1996
>>732218181And the 360 is a console with a guaranteed underfill failure on its CPU and GPU for 50 million of its consoles.
>>732218361That would be a great example of curation and taste.
>>732217912thats Steam now
>>732218554console storefronts are littered with shovelware trash tooi saw something about microsoft removing like 2000 different easy gamerscore games from their store yesterday
>>732218279also another reason is PORNporn influenced every single piece of writable media that ever existed and literally influenced the innovation in technologies throughout decadesyou could burn a DVD and write "naruto movie" on it and your parents will probably never guess it's actually "NEIGHBOR GIRL BACKDOOR QUEEN XXXIV"the presence of a DVD player on the PS2 was nothing to dismiss
>>732210714well its games duh, it had lotsa good games and the marketing and its advertising. and its look was so futuristic and sleek, ahead of its time. it was even a dvd and music player, which is just a big win.
Monster library of gamesNo digital content, so constant flow of used games back to resellers; a year after release most games were $15-25 used (plus whatever used deal GS/EB were running)It played DVDsIt played PS1 gamesIt had no real competition
>>732212338i mean just look at this part, it fucking insanethere will never be a generation like this
>>732218970And that's missing a shitload of games and also has the genres all mislabeled.
>>732218970>there will never be a generation like thisThere's been plenty of overrated mainstream games since.
>>732218970>Ace Combat 5>DMC>God of War and 2>Ico>SoTC>Okami>ZOE I and II>Yakuza 1 and 2remade reported remastered
>>732219282All ports are inferior.
the best 2 console libraries are the PS1 and PS2, and the PS2 could play both + DVD's
>>732215652>why would you care that a website that once contained only humans is now made up of mostly assorted la creaturas gee i wonder
>>732212338i think n64 and ps2 are my fav consoles oat
>>732219282>im not gonna buy a PS2 im just gonna wait 20 years to play the superior remakesdo you know how retarded you are?
>>732219282The Yakuza remasters are much worse than the originals
>>732219595I don't remember if it was Here Comes the Pain or SVR06, but I remember fapping to the part of the season mode where you fuck your gf in the shower
>>732214540dreamcast failed for a reason you tardfag
>>732220475The reason being it didn't have nearly enough goyslop.
>>732220528>3 of the top 10 most popular dreamcast games are sports shovelwareare you sure about that?
>>732220684NFL 2K1 is kino though.
>>732213557You have to consider exactly how expensive DVD players were when the tech was new. If you're a modest household back in the day, being able to knockout having a current game console and the newest format of movies in one thing held a lot of appeal. I'm not saying PS2 was a dirt cheap console even with inflation, but that draw of the DVD player was massive and they took a bit to get a lot cheaper. It is insane how people don't get this.
>>732221351I'm sorry, I'm not American. American football looks cool but I have no idea on how it is played.
Sony dvd player.
>>732210714Cheap and Exclusive games.
>>732212678Brand alone and dvd. All the 6/10 games faggots here like to cram into the library didnt dont matter. Why is ps4 and ps5 doing so well? It aint the games lmao
>>732210714I miss old Playstation, why are they so shit now?
>>732219282>PortsInferior version due lack features from the original. Remakes now are also far worse than a mere port of a ps2 game somehow.
>>732210714GTAGod of War
>>732221910>why are they so shit now?Because you as consoomer enable games for the story so Sony jumped the shark hard with "cinematic" games and bloated budgets at it.
>>732220528>>732220475It failed because it didn't have a DVD player and because you could pirate the games with almost zero effort.
>>732210714>"One of"THE most successful. Deal with in Nincels.
Weird how og xbox was lowkirkenuinely better than ps2 but ps2 had a lot of games. I guess it comes down to nostalgia for brown europoors. I had both and GameCube and dreamcast so I dunno. Ps2 was pretty good
>>732221535Nfl 2k and NBA 2k were great on dreamcast but ea didnt support it so they didnt compete with madden. Dreamcast was an arcade gamers heaven. Playstation was for friendless faggots
>>732221984Nta, i enjoy narratively driven games but i would probably tap out if i didnt enjoy the gameplay. And im not interested in anything that looks like it could be a tv drama for normalfags like tlou for example. I dont think its my fault games suck now.
>>732222273Another 2 millions PS2s have been deposited to your account.
the fucking DVD drive. It was cheaper to get a PS2 to watch DVDs than it was to buy a DVD player at the time. That coupled with the fact that the PSONE was also really popular and yanked a bunch of previously loyal to nintendo devs also helped a lot to solidify a lot of dev support for the system
>>732223225Fucking weird that anons didn't understand the question. What gives you the feel feels and why was it successful are two different things.
>>732210857>>732211345Hilarious that tendies use the same shit arguments that MIGA fags use about Israel. Every white kid with friends and/or taste had a PS2.>>732213557When I was a kid I always played movies on mine.
Nobody with a straight face can compare the library on Xbox or GameCube to PS2. It is one of the hardest generational mogs that the console wars have ever had. And I like the TendieCube.
>>732223841Not really. People are so obsessed over numbers, how many of those 4 gadzillion pieces of shovelware are you even going to play?
>>732223906Nah that's wrong, when you get hair on your cock you will understand. The Wii had four gadzillion pieces of shovelware and four good games. The PS2 had four gadzillion pieces of shovelware and four gadzillion good games.
>>732223906>4 gadzillion pieces of shovelwareAre you going to tell me all the exclusives in this image are shit but the tiny pool of multiplats are the good ones?
>>732223906Its great for a /v/ hipster 3x3 fag but yeah that image with all of the great ps2 games is full of mid and in reality, in the moment you were lucky to play 1/10 of the good games while only xbox, you'd play probably 3/4 of them and still play the same amount of games. 30 yesr old zoomers having memberberries is nauseating. I blame youtube too
>>732224169I think tales of symphonia and fe dawn of ike mog that entire image actually thats my sincere opinion
>>732224169Thats a 10/10 image if you're trans
>>732224163>The PS2 had four gadzillion pieces of shovelware and four gadzillion good games.Genuine delusion.
>>732224235What the fuck is on the xbox other than halo, fable, tenchu, otogi, ninja gaiden and doa. Why the fuck are there so many ninja games on here...
>that weird kid that tried to hype up Socom Just buy an xbox bruh lmao
>>732224169The zoomer you're replying to probably played two of those games max and is going to form their confidently wrong opinion about it based on that.
>>732224312How about these
>>732224467The people who pretend the PS2 has an amazing library have played GTA and some 3D platformer slop.
>>732224420It was the high test console
>>732224504The only fighters that mattered that gen were sc, doa, tekken and melee. Congrats on tekken
the "only spics and blacks bought the console" cope doesn't make sense because then why doesn't every product that panders to them make the same numbers as the ps2 did?
>>732224742Because spics and blacks steal
>>732210714Cheap dvd player.If you wanted to play games in the 6th gen you had a dreamcast, gba, or gamecube.
>>732224825and how do spics and blacks steal digital only games?
>>732213557it's tendie cope. they can't imagine people wanting to play something other than bing bing wahoo.
>>732224514I have like 75 PS2 roms on the laptop I'm replying to you with. I played a ton of weird shit as a kid like Mister Mosquito. PS2. was a kino factory.>>732224742It is really hard for them to grow up and realize you were on the losing side all along bro. They have to find some way to stop the humiliation.
there were so many games and most of them were at least decent. You could look at a wall like this and pick something completely random, most likely you're going to have a good time.in recent gens, the sections are about 10% of the size and are comprised of mostly ported steamslop sold at full price. In fact, the only remaining games retailer in my country have recently pivoted to selling merchandise, they don't even have these games sections anymore, just little buckets with second hands. There are so few games that you need to ask over the counter for them
>>732225037>I have like 75 PS2 roms on the laptop I'm replying to you with.Collecting the disc images is more fun than playing most of them.
>>732223473Every White kid with friends had all three consoles. Gamecube for Smash, Xbox for Halo and a PS2 for watching Van Wilder.
>>732213557Because it was. The best selling game on PS2 barely cracks the top ten Switch list, and it was a GTA game, pure normalfag bait. No one bought it for games.
>>732225054>In fact, the only remaining games retailer in my country have recently pivoted to selling merchandise, they don't even have these games sections anymore, just little buckets with second hands. There are so few games that you need to ask over the counter for them.Latin America, right?
>>732226121>barely cracks the top ten Switch listthat's because the switch has a shit library so you're funneled into the same 10 mediocre first nintendo games everyone else has. ps2 has more overall software sales kek, everyone bought it for games
>>732225054it's just a shame nu-sony hates having a positive brand identity and decided consumer variety was a bad thing
>>732226382>calling the Switch library shit while praising the brownstation 2BOTW alone mogs anything on that turd world dvd player
>>732226382I debunked that cope. Three of the PS2s top five are GTA games, that's a normalfag series. If normalfags were buying the PS2 for games then you would've seen tens of millions of copies of San Andreas sold. You didn't, because it was bought as a DVD player.
>>732227329>muh reskinned ubishit cloneMaximo alone mogs that turd world youtube streaming tablet>>732227553>I [headcanon]nope, it still sold more games, sneed
>>732227796>MaximoPS2 really is the toddlercore console, nothing but 3D platformers and GTA.
>>732210714>What made the PS2 one of the most successful video game consoles in history?Medium budget games. Nowadays there are no mid-budget games. Only AAA titles that cost hundreds of millions of dollars, take years to develop, and since devs want a return of their investment, they never take any risks or try any new ideas. Therefore we get endless remakes, and new games that are copies of each other. The other option is indie games developed by a single person or a really small group. Therefore, we don't get any good games anymore.
>>732228274This post would mean something if the brown hands behind it didnt just shill the most faggy bland ow slop with an entire quest dedicated to crossdressing Link lol
>>732228426Genuinely I have never seen a straight white 6'0+ man playing on a Nintendo Switch. It is always HR lesbians and blue haired kids with stinky pokemon hoodies.
>>732214130You might as well cross out GTA3 as well, this mighy shock you but nobody expected GTA3 to be as big as it was, GTA as a series was a success but it didn't even crack the top 20 best selling PSX gamesI remember reading in a vidya mag in 2001 that even at E3, people where more interested in State of Emergency than GTA3 at the Rockstar booth
>>732210714>What made the PS2 one of the most successful video game consoles in history?Europa, south américa, north africa, and Asia.
>>732228637This but PC and snoy consoles
Cheapness, piracy and failure rates.
>>732212338Sobering reminder that people played multiplats on their PS2.
>>732229310on what platform are you supposed to play a multiplat?
>>732229448in the winning one:megadrivepsxps2xbox360pcfor each era.
>>732229448every multiplat on that list is a shitty PC port, ofc you would play it on the superior PS2
>>732229479All ports to Playstation hardware are downgraded.
>>732223473>e..every white kidHad all consoles, blacks and mexicans only had a ps2. I grew up in a ghetto area they would literally make fun of kids who had a 'cube.
>>732229479Og xbox eas better to me for multiplats especially anything with online play. Xbox live might have cost money but shifted on ps2s online
>>732229546name a PC game thats ported to the PS2...its the other way around retard
>>732229546in 1995-2005 nobody cared about other systems outsides these ones:psxPCgbcgbaPs2trust me mate, I was there. Nobody played driver, wipeout, ffvii, mgs and resident evil on PCAND even if people played those games on PC they played 2 or 3 years later after the original ones on psxSame goes for people who complains about xbox360 being in PC.
>>732210714Good games.
>>732229310>Sobering reminder that people played multiplats on their PS2.worth it for the controller
>>732229643By nobody you mean casuals.
>>732229717Yes, I agree with you. But other anons on 4chan tend to forget 4chan vidya tastes doesn't usually match reality or history.4chan can hate FIFA as much as the want, but without FIFA, PES and other popular games. our precious persona 3 and persona 4 wouldn't have never reach North America or Europe.
Funny how every PS2 thread is full of ESLs
>>732229913True but internet console warrior faggot shit was like that before/ v/. Same thing with everyone downplaying Halo at the time
>>732223473i grew up in a south american country and only the whitest higher class nerd kids with family abroad to get them legit games had gamecubes, everyone else had ps2s and played pirated san andreas and winning eleven on them
>>732226145>Latin America, right?Australia. I can't blame the retailers, there is more business in funko pops, T-shirts and magic cards. Between digital sales and the industry's decline, the writing has been on the wall for over a decade
Great thread anons, quite interesting posts from some anons, /v/ and 4chan are still worthy, See you tomorrow, good night!
>>732230914Terrible image. What were you thinking?
>>732229448PC or the strongest console on the market if it’s not on PC. I remember seeing my buddy play Battlefront 2 on his PS2 back in the day and it was fucking miserable. That’s essentially what every PS2 owner had from my experience. Multiplats and some random installment of Ratchet and Clank.
>>732230347I grew up in the united states and had both a ps2 and a gamecube. The ps2 fucking shits on the gamecube I don't know what else to say.
>>732231125PS2 mogs if only because I’d have dropped video games in middle school and grown up normal because no Metroid Prime and Melee to fry my dopamine receptors.
>>732231419I never played Metroid Prime.
