what makes it the best console ever?
good games
>>738459238Some combination of Soul, over 500 exclusive titles, and no other future hardware generation ever being able to match the jump in fidelity and qol from 5th -> 6th gen (Xbox 360 and PS3 were massive downgrades in performance for example).
>>738459238Games
Complete platform dominance. Nearly everything released on it, many of those games being exclusive too. It happened with the NES,SNES, PS1, and PS2. After that, we entered the multiplat generations.
>>738459238the dvd player
>>738459238Y2K kino , you had to be there zoomzoom
emotion engine
>>738459272Truth >>738459358Cope
>>738459238DVD player and elite library, we've been over this many times.
I bet your ass the reason why it sold so much was because the slims disc drive broke all the damn time
psx was better
It was the cheapest dvd player right when dvd’s got big.
>>738459601>>738459703This is nintendo cope, their opinions don't matter. Gamecube lost because of your "expert" analysis.
>>738459601it hit me when i was dling shit off myrient how many worthwhile games the ps2 has. i got like 2,5 tb and still missed some shit like hungry ghosts for the new translation patch :(
>>738459756I had a PS2 you fucking mongoloid; Gamecube 'lost' because for a number of reasons, one of which, yes, was that the PS2 could also play DVDs which made it attractive to parents who were buying the fucking things.
>>738460142>runs defense for gaycube>claims he had a PS2Yeah been through this before. You're coping.
>>738460221>n-no, it's copegg, no re.
>>738459238The greatest of the true consoles.>optical discs were final published media and can't be patched with bugfixes or have online DLC nickeldiming.>memory cards weren't able to do seamless autosave so saving your game with a menu or save point was still a distinct ritual.
>>738460786autosaving was becoming a thing but much of the time it was a big save prompt that still paused the game for a few seconds.
*rapes you're memory card*nothing personell
>>738459238Was cheapHad good games
>>738461090they VILL fix it
ironically piracy
>>7384610902005 was a poor year for Ps2 memory cards.
>>738461352I'm working on a PS2 port of Jak & Daxter using OpenGOAL.
>>738461457Why did this game corrupt saves again?
>>738459238It just so happened to be in a position of where it got tons of exclusives that never went anywhere for a decade. There's still exclusives trapped on it.It's not only a first party exclusive machine but also a third party exclusive machine.Although i don't really give a shit about the consolewars aspect to be honest with you. It just happened to be made in the golden years of gaming and that's why it's remembered fondly. Many of the games being released at that time were good but it's also coincidental because you could play high quality games on any respective platform. However if you were really into Japanese games then it was practically the only thing to own. It depends on what your tastes were like.
>>738459238Best library of any console to date.
>>738459238Imagine if every new playstation was backwards compatible old releases with the main selling point being hardware updates.
>>738459601There's so much garbage on this list. The PS2 is the console for tasteless casual retards.
the fact I was young during its prime time
>>738459316Kino webm
>>738461792The strategy mode thing would corrupt itself if a save file made earlier than it was modified. If it was the first thing you saved on the card then nothing would happen.
>>738461792if you move, copy, or delete anyting on your mc before making a sc3 file, it will corrupt
>>738459238Free onlineHuge game library with tons of top tier gamesDVD playerUSB portsI want one just to play Gran Turismo desu.
ps2's only flaws are>video output looks like shit on compared to gamecube and og Xbox on anything that isn't a CRT or some expensive ass upscaler >despite this also likely being the most pirated console of all time, the homebrew is all kind of jank and there's 0 good ways to pirate PS1 games for it
>>738464638>there's 0 good ways to pirate PS1 games for itYou just install one of those unlock chips and it'll run anything.
>>738464785yes, there's also mechapwn, but you have to dick around with burning cds.
>>738459316>>738464638soul>Dreamcast had the ability to perform what was called Order Independent Transparency. Dreamcast can output VGA natively>Dreamcast and GameCube had totally different fog hardware. The Dreamcast can very easily recreate any GameCube fog, but the other way around is not so possible depending on how the fog is setup>PS2 is full of beautiful particle effects that wouldn't even come close to being surpassed until GPU particles went mainstream two generations later, and even then tanked with transparency effects the PS2 powered through at 60fps>PS2 Expansion Bay designed for the network adaptor and internal hard disk drive (HDD ATA-66 (Roughly 66MB/s). USB 1.1 interface: 12Mbit (~1.5 MB/s)>GameCube supports texture compression, has hardware support for a lot of different texture effects (via TEV shaders), has a decently large dedicated texture cache and actually has proper support for mipmaps / trilinear filtering>The multitexturing effects were pretty advanced for the time, and the GPU could lay down eight texture layers in a single per pass>Xbox had custom Xbox only d3d8 dx8 and a high end PC-level GPU coupled with a low-tier Pentium 3 CPU running at 733Mhz with a crippled cache. The system has Direct X 8.1, shader model 1.1, vertex shader 1.1 and two Vertex Shader units, while the Geforce 3's only had one>The Xbox uses a unified memory architecture meaning the CPU and GPU share the same RAM. Unlike a PC there’s no concept of creating a D3D allocation in VRAM and having the GPU manage it. On Xbox the CPU can create an allocation for textures, render targets, vertex buffers, etc, and pass the allocation address directly to the GPU. This gives developers the ability to allocate one buffer and have multiple resource “views” that utilize the memory
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>2 controller portsI had all 4 consoles of that time (including Dreamcast). PS2 was great, and I loved FFX/MGS2 at release, but it was always the white trash/brown-coded console. All of the quality families had Xbox and GC, and our families would have posh get togethers and we kids would play 4 player gauntlet dark legacy and smash.
