it's not an either/or situation, people bought it for both.
A lot of people who would have bought a slightly cheaper DVD player still sprung for the PS2 *because* it could also play games.
The fact that it was around the same price as good DVD players made it an enticing choice for a lot of people.
it's not an either/or situation, people bought it for both.
A lot of people who would have bought a slightly cheaper DVD player still sprung for the PS2 *because* it could also play games.
The fact that it was around the same price as good DVD players made it an enticing choice for a lot of people.
It’s almost like people here brainlessly parrot things they read here verbatim with out a modicum of thought so they can pretend to be knowledgeable and contribute the same shit that’s already been posted in the thread already a million times by other equally brainless individuals
a shit ton of families bought it just because it could play DVDs
DVD players were still expensive when the PS2 came out
it's not an either/or situation, people bought it for both.
A lot of people who would have bought a slightly cheaper DVD player still sprung for the PS2 *because* it could also play games.
The fact that it was around the same price as good DVD players made it an enticing choice for a lot of people.
Go figure I have to be the one to do a modicum a reach to verify this moronic bullshit meme the insufferable nintendo fanboys shit out as the end all be all “gatcha” the their borderline obsessive hatred to sony over the last 10 years I’ve been on here. These homosexuals have to retroactively find and excuse to shit on perviously unanimously loved consoles in their psychotic brand obsession.
This website says that the average DVD player was $225 USD in 2000 and dropped to $125 USD over the course of 5 years
https://www.edn.com/dvd-player-average-selling-price-in-the-united-states/
And this website says the PS2 launched at $299 USD in 2000
https://gamerant.com/playstation-consoles-ranked-launch-price/#ps2-ndash-299-inflation-price-514-26
So where does this “cheap DVD player” shit you brainless parrots keep on regurgitating come from? How fricking stupid is this God damned board?
Are you really this moronic? Instead of buying a games console and a DVD player they could just buy the games console that was also a DVD player and save $225.
And yes some console purchase is a forgone conclusion when we're discussing relative sales numbers between consoles.
You Black folk are the one saying “cheap DVD player” over and over, you dumb fricking homosexual. Don’t even try and move the motherfricking goal post and say “hurr durr everyone only bought it because they were going to get a DVD player anyway so of course they’d shell out the equivalent to $138 in today’s money for something they might not even want to begin with!” You’re also implying the fricking PS2 sold 130 million of it’s lifetime sales in 2000 alone and not over 7 fricking years where DVD players were $50 at that fricking point. Holy shit, have a nice day, you overly self-assured little dumb homosexual
I've been playing quite a bit on those recently but got worried about the slowly encroaching years 2035/2038. Am I fine just setting the clock back a few years or will they throw a hissy fit over savefiles with a newer date than the system clock?
I hear this all the time ,but I think it's just a meme at this point,its not like everyone was dying to get a dvd player at that time,some people were even complaining because you couldn't record shows onto dvd like vhs
>Povertystation >When the GC was the cheapest console of the three
The GC was owned by kids who wernt loved by their parents wich is why most Nintendofans today express such fatherless behavior
The PS2 was popular with literally EVERYONE
The console is the definition of mass appeal
Your are still mad over 20 years later because no one cared about whatever shit console you bought
false. >PS2
kids who had to bribe their parents with the DVD player function. Parents would then lose interest after one or two uses, then the kids would take it over. Your parents are self centered dickheads that can only think of their own wants. >Xbox
Kids who's parents were chain smokers. Bought the kid an xbox with their SSI to keep them quiet while they get drunk at 3 pm and watch shitty TV. >gamecube
kids who had one or more siblings. parents recognize the nintendo branding as a family oriented system, would participate in SSBM matches, while not even close to being good, the kids felt some bonding over it.
I know this because i was a GC kid, a friend of mine who had a bad home life was an xbox player.
I've never owned a working PS2. Every now and then I buy a for parts console of ebay to hopefully fix up and save money, but they've all been beyond repair. Ironically if I'd just bought a working one initially I'd have spent less money.
I have a lot of nostalgia for it, but the PS1 and PS3 are more noteworthy for me.
Good selection of games though! It also had the ability to play DVDs too
Oh, really?
So even the resolution matters?
Frick, I didn't know that.
I never bought a blu ray before. The only physical media I bought has been vidya and some music CDs back in the days.
lmaoing at the ps2homosexual seething at his religious icon getting insulted
ps2gays are worse than tendies, they get offended so easily if you say anything bad about their piece of shit console that ruined every good game it had with stretched, 480i with bilinear shitsmear filters for the blurriest image possible on every display
GCgay projecting the cult status onto other consoles lol
GC is the one that got a religious following over the years because tendies couldnt get over the fact that everyone saw it as mediocre
You need to accept the facts
if you didnt own a PS2 back then, you wernt part of the discussion
You didnt have access to the games that shaped that generation
You where seen as either, a outcast or poor
>pic
he literally proves over and over why nintendo always wins the culture war of consoles.
yes, playstation has everything, but because of that, there is no cohesion within the fanbase.
everyone who had an n64 or GC pretty much played the same game and could relate to one another.
xbox as well.
cohesion will always win in long term culture wars over mass appeal.
t. PC master race.
most likely last of us.
it was literally the only game that gave the playstation a title anywhere near the impact of halo.
playstation literally only had one original game.
and with how hard they're holding bloodborne back from PC shows just how trash the platform is.
besides, xbox was the easier of the two HD systems to dev for, hence why the games on xbox came out in better states.
>you see having no games is a good thing because i could play the same game over and over again and obsess on the internet about it with fellow autists
good for you i guess
PS2 nostalgia consists of shitty multiplat games that aged poorly. GCN nostalgia consists of some of the best games ever made. It makes sense that GCN would win out in the long term culturally.
Guys, I don't know what the frick are you smoking in this thread, but back in the days my brother bought a ps2 to hack it and play countless games. Metal gear solid 2/3, Lego games, Final Fantasy X, Gran Turismo 4... And watch some movies like garfield or stuff like that.
Those are budget models with the digital out and serial port 2 removed. The silver colored Gamecubes were originally a limited edition from 2002 but they brought it back for those late budget ones which probably tanked the potential value of those 2002 silvers.
The Gamecube GPU was designed by a company called ArtX, consisting of former SGI employees who worked on N64. Shortly before the GCN went into production they were bought by ATi. He was right all along.
Ps never sold for the quality but for convenience.
PS1: you can get games for free with an easy mod on your console.
PS2: cheap dvd player you can convince your parents to buy.
Catering to the poors got their money. Infact nobody of their consumer base managed to buy a ps3 and they screamed to hell and return.
What exactly stopped the competition from making their console convinient?
Why didnt the GC have N64 BC to get the old fanbase to jump over?
Why didnt it have a DVD player installed?
oh right thats because Nintendo are fricking cheapskates and would rather push out the console that makes them the most money instead of the console that offfers the consumer more
as a consumer, i dont give a frick about how much profit they make, i want more features
yeah it was everywhere
>cheap DVD player
>GC kiddies still going on with the DVD player cope
yeah its not like the most popular games of that generation had PS2 exclusivity or something
it's not an either/or situation, people bought it for both.
A lot of people who would have bought a slightly cheaper DVD player still sprung for the PS2 *because* it could also play games.
The fact that it was around the same price as good DVD players made it an enticing choice for a lot of people.
It’s almost like people here brainlessly parrot things they read here verbatim with out a modicum of thought so they can pretend to be knowledgeable and contribute the same shit that’s already been posted in the thread already a million times by other equally brainless individuals
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe outsold all of that, doofus
Um, sweety, I own all of those games for the og xbox. Ya know, 480p 16:9 and better framerates?
>had to wait a entire year extra
>also missing effects
good for you i guess?
cope
Go figure I have to be the one to do a modicum a reach to verify this moronic bullshit meme the insufferable nintendo fanboys shit out as the end all be all “gatcha” the their borderline obsessive hatred to sony over the last 10 years I’ve been on here. These homosexuals have to retroactively find and excuse to shit on perviously unanimously loved consoles in their psychotic brand obsession.
This website says that the average DVD player was $225 USD in 2000 and dropped to $125 USD over the course of 5 years
https://www.edn.com/dvd-player-average-selling-price-in-the-united-states/
And this website says the PS2 launched at $299 USD in 2000
https://gamerant.com/playstation-consoles-ranked-launch-price/#ps2-ndash-299-inflation-price-514-26
So where does this “cheap DVD player” shit you brainless parrots keep on regurgitating come from? How fricking stupid is this God damned board?
Are you really this moronic? Instead of buying a games console and a DVD player they could just buy the games console that was also a DVD player and save $225.
And yes some console purchase is a forgone conclusion when we're discussing relative sales numbers between consoles.
You Black folk are the one saying “cheap DVD player” over and over, you dumb fricking homosexual. Don’t even try and move the motherfricking goal post and say “hurr durr everyone only bought it because they were going to get a DVD player anyway so of course they’d shell out the equivalent to $138 in today’s money for something they might not even want to begin with!” You’re also implying the fricking PS2 sold 130 million of it’s lifetime sales in 2000 alone and not over 7 fricking years where DVD players were $50 at that fricking point. Holy shit, have a nice day, you overly self-assured little dumb homosexual
Lel you are so moronic and buttblasted
this and the wii
I've been playing quite a bit on those recently but got worried about the slowly encroaching years 2035/2038. Am I fine just setting the clock back a few years or will they throw a hissy fit over savefiles with a newer date than the system clock?
a shit ton of families bought it just because it could play DVDs
DVD players were still expensive when the PS2 came out
I hear this all the time ,but I think it's just a meme at this point,its not like everyone was dying to get a dvd player at that time,some people were even complaining because you couldn't record shows onto dvd like vhs
most people already had VHS players they could use though, DVDs not being able to record wasn't a huge deal
You might have been too young at the time but DVD really was a must have. It wasn't like the tepid response HD-DVD and Bluray received.
i had xbox instead
Same.
>The Playstation 2
>the console everyone in the third world owned
Fixed
>trade embargo to third world nations so they didn't make missiles out of them
The Povertystation 2 has a weak library.
>Povertystation
>When the GC was the cheapest console of the three
The GC was owned by kids who wernt loved by their parents wich is why most Nintendofans today express such fatherless behavior
The PS2 was always popular with poor third worlders. Even to this day all homebrew software for the console has that thirdie stench too it.
>ESL
>calling anyone a "thirdie"
Lmao subhuman Black personmutt
The PS2 was popular with literally EVERYONE
The console is the definition of mass appeal
Your are still mad over 20 years later because no one cared about whatever shit console you bought
false.
>PS2
kids who had to bribe their parents with the DVD player function. Parents would then lose interest after one or two uses, then the kids would take it over. Your parents are self centered dickheads that can only think of their own wants.
>Xbox
Kids who's parents were chain smokers. Bought the kid an xbox with their SSI to keep them quiet while they get drunk at 3 pm and watch shitty TV.
>gamecube
kids who had one or more siblings. parents recognize the nintendo branding as a family oriented system, would participate in SSBM matches, while not even close to being good, the kids felt some bonding over it.
I know this because i was a GC kid, a friend of mine who had a bad home life was an xbox player.
>I know this because i was a GC kid,
explains the extreme autism at display here
when is your transition due?
how's the distant parents that need incentives to spend time with you?
I got my ps2 as a bribe for favour by my mom when my parents were getting a divorce.
that's rough buddy.
I've never owned a working PS2. Every now and then I buy a for parts console of ebay to hopefully fix up and save money, but they've all been beyond repair. Ironically if I'd just bought a working one initially I'd have spent less money.
I had a GameCube and my friend had the PS2
I have a lot of nostalgia for it, but the PS1 and PS3 are more noteworthy for me.
Good selection of games though! It also had the ability to play DVDs too
>PS3
how so?
most likely last of us.
it was literally the only game that gave the playstation a title anywhere near the impact of halo.
>bought advent children 2021 remastered
>Put it in ps2
>Doesn't read blu rays
>Put it in ps4
>Doesn't read blu rays
Time to buy a ps3.
>Put it in ps4
>Doesn't read blu rays
seriously? lmao
Ye
Oh, really?
So even the resolution matters?
Frick, I didn't know that.
I never bought a blu ray before. The only physical media I bought has been vidya and some music CDs back in the days.
the ps2's controller was where controllers peaked and no one can convince me otherwise
gamecube chads report in
lmaoing at the ps2homosexual seething at his religious icon getting insulted
ps2gays are worse than tendies, they get offended so easily if you say anything bad about their piece of shit console that ruined every good game it had with stretched, 480i with bilinear shitsmear filters for the blurriest image possible on every display
GCgay projecting the cult status onto other consoles lol
GC is the one that got a religious following over the years because tendies couldnt get over the fact that everyone saw it as mediocre
You need to accept the facts
if you didnt own a PS2 back then, you wernt part of the discussion
You didnt have access to the games that shaped that generation
You where seen as either, a outcast or poor
>y-you're a tendie
classic projection from the ps2homosexual
idort who barely used his gamecube btw, so suck my dick homosexual
>pic
he literally proves over and over why nintendo always wins the culture war of consoles.
yes, playstation has everything, but because of that, there is no cohesion within the fanbase.
everyone who had an n64 or GC pretty much played the same game and could relate to one another.
xbox as well.
cohesion will always win in long term culture wars over mass appeal.
t. PC master race.
How moronic are you genuinely? I guess the PS3 and PS4 won the culture war despite you braindead homosexuals repeating “no gaems” for 15 years
refer to
playstation literally only had one original game.
and with how hard they're holding bloodborne back from PC shows just how trash the platform is.
besides, xbox was the easier of the two HD systems to dev for, hence why the games on xbox came out in better states.
>you see having no games is a good thing because i could play the same game over and over again and obsess on the internet about it with fellow autists
good for you i guess
>nooooo you can't heckin' enjoy the same game over and over! you have to consooooooooooom
cope.
Show me nostalgia for PS2 only stuff and not their shittier versions of multiplats
PS2 nostalgia consists of shitty multiplat games that aged poorly. GCN nostalgia consists of some of the best games ever made. It makes sense that GCN would win out in the long term culturally.
I never had one because a friend had one and I just went to his house.
You don't have friends and too anxious to walk to anyone's house
>nintendogaf out in full force
Guys, I don't know what the frick are you smoking in this thread, but back in the days my brother bought a ps2 to hack it and play countless games. Metal gear solid 2/3, Lego games, Final Fantasy X, Gran Turismo 4... And watch some movies like garfield or stuff like that.
>there will never be a lineup of games even half as good as that of the ps2
Now it takes longer to make a shitty sequel then it did to make an amazing trilogy back then.
Soon the switch will usurp its record.
the dvd player everyone in the world owned
>the ps2 only sold the best because it was a cheap dvd pla
This is really how the tendie argument falls apart
A GC plus DVD player would have been cheaper than a PS2
what does that have to do with anything
Those are budget models with the digital out and serial port 2 removed. The silver colored Gamecubes were originally a limited edition from 2002 but they brought it back for those late budget ones which probably tanked the potential value of those 2002 silvers.
Yawn in english nerd
>graphics by ATi? ATi MY ASS!
The Gamecube GPU was designed by a company called ArtX, consisting of former SGI employees who worked on N64. Shortly before the GCN went into production they were bought by ATi. He was right all along.
it's the new psx "debacle"
>Nooo it's not the PS1!!!
homosexuals who argue about this shit weren't even alive in 1996
I wanted one but it was sold out everywhere on launch and in the end I never got one.
Ps never sold for the quality but for convenience.
PS1: you can get games for free with an easy mod on your console.
PS2: cheap dvd player you can convince your parents to buy.
Catering to the poors got their money. Infact nobody of their consumer base managed to buy a ps3 and they screamed to hell and return.
What exactly stopped the competition from making their console convinient?
Why didnt the GC have N64 BC to get the old fanbase to jump over?
Why didnt it have a DVD player installed?
oh right thats because Nintendo are fricking cheapskates and would rather push out the console that makes them the most money instead of the console that offfers the consumer more
as a consumer, i dont give a frick about how much profit they make, i want more features
They actually did do this (Japan only)
That thing was a piece of shit, but it was a nice piece of shit.
Dreamcast and Xbox are better.
Reminder there are copies and licenses of GTAV sold than there are PS2s
I understand
i had the dreamcast, then the xbox. i was always a cool kid