PS2 celebrates 7th anniversary
Forgetting its problems, regarding the poor sales of PS3s around the globe, at least for one day, Sony celebrated PS2’s seventh anniversary on Friday. That’s right folks it’s seven years old, which in human years means it is like 70 or 80 years old. And believe it or not it’s still alive and kicking.
The PlayStation 2 is officially the most popular gaming platform ever released, with over 120 million units and more than 2 billion software titles sold worldwide. Those are truly unbelievable figures if you ask me and what’s even more amazing is that it’s still going strong, remaining Sony’s flagship in the video game department. Actually officials from the Japanese giant have declared they plan on developing new software for the PS2 until as far as 2010.
PS2’s continued success and PS3’s partial failure, really don’t give Sony other choice than to squeeze every last dollar from the old system. As proof of this, more than 160 titles are expected to come out for the PS2 through March ’08, including Manhunt 2, Madden NFL ’08 and Guitar Hero III. Also Sony’s planning to launch a ceramic white version of the PS2 at a retail price of $149.99, to freshen up the system.
“We look forward to the platform’s continued growth and expect to sell approximately 12 million units worldwide by the end of March, leading us to anticipate that PlayStation 2’s life cycle will exceed that of the original PlayStation,” SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton said in the announcement.
