Buying A $99 PS2 Will Make You Buy A $400 PS3, Says Sony
Monday 6 April 2009 @ 10:20 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 8 Comments
The PS2, much like the Madden franchise, refuses to die. Only unlike with Madden, its a good thing! Furthermore the PS2 has just been given a nice price cut to $99 USD, which coupled with music games and JRPGs still coming out for the console will ensure many more years of its existence.
However Sony believes the PS2 will be the gateway to owning a PS3. John Koller, Director for Hardware Marketing at Sony said to Ars Technica that they’ve "found that almost 80 percent of PlayStation 3 owners either currently own or have in the past owned a PlayStation 2, so that statistic on its own speaks volumes". That’s some hardcore deductive power right there guys!
I’m sorry but I dont see a $99 console bought to play Guitar Hero making people buy a $400 dollar PS3. Just as much as I dont see soccer moms who bought the Wii to play Wii Fit ‘graduating’ to an Xbox 360, as Microsoft has stated in the past. Mr. Koller, that most PS3 owners had a PS2 does not mean most PS2 owners will buy a PS3. Just as much as me making a bitter Playstation post does not mean all my Playstation posts are bit… ok I’ll give you that one.
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At least this means I can replace my old boxy PS2 to play DIsgaea and Phantom Brave again :)
I love my ps2 and want a ps3. I just don’t want to pay 400$ for it!!
(@sol, whats your icon i give up?)
Bastardino…I’m a Cactus Friend.
My GF said she saw that very toy at Comic-Con
My misses has Polpettina. She’ll make an appearance soon enough.
Nixing the backwards compatibility kind of wrecks that argument.
If I can’t carry over my games or peripherals, there’s no advantage over getting a 360 and putting it next to the PS2, which is what I did.
Do what i do: spend the US$ 400 in a D60 and a 18-200mm lens instead of something that WILL NEVER GIVE YOU ANY MONEY AT ALL.
That makes me wish for MMORPG for the PSP…
Hehe, buy the camera.