Their time has come. The old workhorse retreats after nearly 13 years of faithful service on the battlefield. A bloody war from which he has emerged victorious although bruised. Today PlayStation 2 ceases its distribution in Japan , today a myth of the entertainment world is definitely buried.
It was something logical and it had been delayed in time. The console went on sale on March 4, 2000 in Japan and it seems incredible that in the land of the rising sun it was still being sold. It will no longer be like this. Sony stops distributing its console officially and we will only have to wait for the stock stored in the stores to run out to give it up completely.
From here our tribute to the best-selling (desktop) console in history with more than 150 million units . Perhaps now we do not realize it but in 20 years we will continue to remember it and tell our children that there was a console, the distant relative of the one they have at that time, which was a real boom at the time and the cause that “the play ”was synonymous with video game console.
By the way, every time there is a legendary retreat, whether of a person or a simple mythical pot like this, a poem by Antonio Machado comes to mind that fits him like a glove:
To a dry elm
To the old elm, split by lightning and in its half rotten,
with the April rains and the May sun
some green leaves have come out.
The centenary elm on the hill that laps the Duero!
A yellowish moss stains the whitish bark
to the rotten and dusty trunk.
It will not be, like the singing poplars
who guard the road and the shore,
inhabited by brown nightingales.
Army of ants in a row
is climbing up it,
and in their entrails they concoct
their gray webs the spiders.
Before I knock you down
elm of the Duero,
with his ax the woodcutter, and the carpenter
I turn you into a bell’s mane,
wagon lance or wagon yoke;
before red in the home, tomorrow,
burn in some miserable hut,
on the edge of a road;
before a whirlwind takes you down
and cut off the breath of the white mountains;
before the river to the sea
I pushed you through valleys and ravines,
elm, I want to note in my portfolio
the grace of your green branch.
My heart waits too
towards the light and towards life,
another miracle of spring.
Via | Kotaku
