Get up and put the nonsense away. This is one of those moments when the gaming community has to stand up together and clap in unison. One of the strongest generational icons to ever exist has just entered its 10th year.
Congratulations PlayStation 2 and thank you very much for having endured so much. It seems that it was only yesterday when it was launched in Japan, in the middle of a mountain of speculation and surrounded by the power of its “emotion Engine”.
A graphic madness that at that moment surprised locals and strangers. Look back and contemplate with the complicity that experience gives, how much it impacted us at the time.
And it is that 140 million consoles alone justify its legend. But all beginnings are hard and starting to walk takes time. Of course it was wrapped up in the success of the original PSX and those black and once strange shapes were destined to go far.
The great titles did not take long to arrive and if your imagination reaches you, you will remember posters of ‘Devil May Cry’ in bus and subway stations, the one that was bundled with the launch of ‘Metal Gear Solid 2’ or, above all, the brutal arrival of ‘Gran Turismo 3’.
Let’s put radical love of a company aside and let’s face it. At that time contemplating ‘GT 3’ was like touching the sky , those reflections, that scenery, that softness, that was from another world, rather, that was another generation.
It was only the beginning of many glorious years and of a system that has stood up to the cruel and inexorable passage of time like no one else. To this day, at a very very low price, it continues to sell a very respectable number of units, Sony is determined to continue supporting its console until the last breath and we, as users, are witnessing the decline of a machine designed to make us evade the sad reality and that now he sees his last hours pass slowly.
PlayStation 2, your destiny is already written and yet you continue to show that in your tenth year, understand how brutal that figure is if we talk about modern hardware, you can still fight.
Maybe PS3 is not a worthy heir, or maybe yes, only time will tell. What is clear is that the “PlayStation” brand will always be associated with that huge, square, totemic console that could be placed horizontally and vertically.
PlayStation 2, congratulations.
Via | Kotaku
