It appears that the PS2 will be no longer. After this holiday season developers will be withdrawing their support from the PS2.
What does that mean? It means no new games for the PS2. Sony was hoping for 10 years but will only get 8 of their historic system. That is quite a feat. New systems come out about every 5 years, give or take a year. Even after the release of the PS3 Sony continued to support their lesser system.
That is more than Microsoft can say about their Xbox. Microsoft stopped with the new release of games for their Xbox only a few months after the Xbox 360 was available in stores.
PS2 had and still has one of the biggest user bases for a console system. Microsoft could learn something from Sony.
(Source: MCV)
1 comment:
I agree, long live the ps2! This was news to me, I hadnt heard that developers were going to be withdrawing support from the PS2, and I am saddened by it. I have yet to make the leap into the 'new generation' of consoles but now it seems as though im being forced into it. However even though official support is being withdrawn now attention has been lost for quite some time. Big developers are going with whats new, the ps3 has been out long enough that is should have a solid base and game developers are correct to pull support, effectively announcing the focal point of their attention...the new stuff.
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