With its rather large jump on visual quality, the updated design, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:dozens of great games, it's no wonder the PlayStation 2 became the best selling video game console of all time. Even now, 20 years after it's initial release and with several new consoles taking over from it, no other console has yet to overtake this feat, thougꦿh the Nintendo DS consoles collectively came very close.
Despite how many aspects of the PS2 that fans love, there are just as many aspects that we don't, either because they are outdated functions or mechanics 🌳by modern standards or they were simply not a good design choice, even at the🍨 time the PS2 was released.
10 What We'll Miss: The Boot-Up Screen ♌
The bootup screens that played when consoles were turned on is something of a lost aspect of video game consoles, since many older generation consoles, including the PS1, PS2, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo 64, and GameCube all played a different animation when the console was turned on. Nowadays, players are simply given a basic display of choosing a user to log into with little in the way of c🉐reative flair, something that many gamers sorely miss from older consoles.
9 🎐 Glad To See Gone: Memory Cards
One outdated aspect of the PS2, even in its own generation, was the need to use a Memory Card to ke༺ep save game files. Although the hardware was very different, the N64 allowed gamers to save their games directly onto the cartridge, removing the need for additional hardware should gamers want to continue their games. This wouldn't be so much of an issue, except that losing or damaging the Memory Card meant losing the save files for multiple games forever since you could only back up a save file onto another Memory Card.
8 What We'll Miss: T♒he Lower Price
As consoles are becoming more and more expensive to both make, they are also becoming more expensive for the consumer to buy, with the current generation being one of the most expensive in recent years. At the time, the PS2 and Xbox was a mere $299USD, half the current price of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 5.
This equates to around $450 in today's market, which isn't that far off the latest consoles, but this i🉐s still cheaper than any of the PlayStation consoles that came after it adjusted for inflation.
7 Glad To🃏 See Gone: Corded Controller💯s
One thing that no gamer will ever miss, even the most nostalgia-attached retro gamer, is tripping over a controller cord and potentially breaking♚ their console or at the very least, pulling the controller out ﷽at the worst possible time. Thankfully, corded controllers are a thing of the past with the exception of a few third-party controllers, but all first-party controllers these days are cordless, meaning players don't have to worry about anyone walking in front of their TV ever again.
6 ꦍ What We'll Miss: 🐈The Size
As consoles have grown in power, they have also had to grow in size to make ro🅘om for all that hardware. Compared to every succeeding console in Sony's lineup, the PS2 was a much more manageable size, even with its original design, than the PS3, PS4, or PS5. The size of a console wasn't so much of an issue in the early 2000s, since most people didn't have multiple generations of consoles in the same TV cabinet, but these days, especially with the lack of backward compatibility in the PlayStation consoles, size makes quite the difference.
5 ♛ Glad To See Gone: The Old-School Disk Drives
Evenღ though consoles are headed towards being digital-only systems, we're not quite there yet and still need a disk drive to play our physical games. That being said, the older version of these drives found in the PS1 and PS2 were clunky and prone to malfunctioning compared to modern standards, as well as the flip-top design of the PS2 slim feeling quite fragile in comparison to even the PS1's similar design.
4 What ♐We'll Miss: Its Longevity 🥀
These days, it's expected that a console generation will last, at most, around 10 years from its first 💦release to the discontinuation of its support. Even though there were only 6 years between the PS2 and PS3's release, the PS2 was manufactured and supported for nea♕rly 13 years.
Although the PS3 lasted nearly as long in Japan, its international support ♒ended much sooner, with New Zealand's sales being discontinued in 2015 ♛and was largely dropped in favor of the upcoming PS4.
3 Glad To See Gone: N♐o Online Support 🐠
While the PS2 had some rudimentary online support,꧋ it was bare-bones at best and nothing compared to what we expect in modern consoles. Even if games had online multiplayer support, it was near impossible for some players to even use these functions, as they h♛ad to also have the PlayStation Network Adaptor to allow for online play. This, coupled with the fact that there was no centralized online service like Xbox Live, resulted in many gamers who wanted to play with friends online moving to PC or Xbox consoles instead.
2 What We'll ඣMiss: The Ga𒀰mes
Not only was the PS2 the best selling console of all time, but it was also home to some of the best games not only of its generation but in gaming as a whole. Even with the success of Grand Theft Auto's move to 3D, it was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that that put RockStar on the map as a great developer. Other series like God of War and Metal Gear Solid would see continued su♏pport into future generations while stand-alone titles like Shadow of the Colossus would see re-releases in both the PS3 and PS4.
1 🌠 Glad To See Gone: Only Two Controller Ports
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