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Thanks to Moore's law and economies of scale, the PS2 included a fully compatible PS1-on-a-chip, and did not require to do emulation in software. You could buy one and have your collection of PlayStation games work from day one. Which reminds me: The PS2 was a perfectly backwards compatible PlayStation as well. Perfect party racing game, still oodles of fun after all these years. I've taken my PS2 out of storage and play Crash Team Racing, which is a PS1 game but I don't care, shut up, with my daughters. The original PlayStation was owned by 104.25 million, PlayStation 3 had 86.90 million and current console PlayStation 4 has had slightly more at 88.06 million owners.” posted by Fizz (22 comments total) That's ahead of the 154.90 million who played on a Nintendo DS and the 118.69 million Game Boy owners. "It gave people who weren't self-identifying as gamers a chance to play things like karaoke and music games." According to Guinness World Records, 157.68 million people have owned a PlayStation 2 in their lifetime.
Singstar let you compete against friends at singing while Guitar Hero was a guitar-based video games that was played on a big plastic instrument.
"It was home to games which elevated creativity and expanded the games market - like Singstar and Guitar Hero," he says. Alex believes the console attracted people who might not have played video games, and put controllers in the hands of a new wave of gamers. Why it's an important piece of gaming history “The DVD player in the console made it accessible to people at the time who could get "two things for a cheaper price".The Xbox wasn't out yet, but when it did it would require the purchase of a separate 'playback kit.' That left the PS2 as my only option.” The Dreamcast, released a year earlier, did not play DVDs (it used GD-ROM for its disc format). But if the new game console I wanted to get anyway had a player, then it was two gadgets for the price of one. The PS2 had one trump card in its deck, one thing that I could point at and say, "Look, it's not just a game machine, I didn't waste my money on such a single-use luxury!" It could play DVDs. So I had to save up for months, while also finding a way to justify the high cost to myself (and my skeptical mother). That was a big deal at a time when I was only making $135 a week, and most of that cash was going toward college costs: tuition, textbooks and transportation. Heck, it was the first big ticket item I ever bought, period. My favorite PlayStation 2 game was DVDs “The PlayStation 2 was the first game console I ever bought.From elegiac adventures Ico and Shadow of the Colossus to psychological horror classic Silent Hill 2 and hallucinogenic joyride Katamari Damacy, the PS2 was home to titles that inspired the nascent independent game development scene of the mid-2000s.” But the sheer ubiquity of the console and its vast global user base also allowed for a growing pool of experimental titles, which used the power of the Emotion Engine in very different ways. The machine effectively ushered in the modern era of highly cinematic blockbuster action adventures, with titles such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Devil May Cry thrilling players with their depth, visual detail and mature themes. The PlayStation 2 Is Now Twenty Years Old “Despite looming competition from the Nintendo GameCube and the Microsoft Xbox, the PlayStation 2 was an instant smash, selling more than three million units in its first year in Japan alone and hitting 20m worldwide by the end of 2001.