I mean it, it was the weakest of all consoles but it sold like crazy but what is great about it is that since it's games tend to be on the unrealistic side but those games are the ones that age best, for example on the gamecube there was zelda windwaker and zelda twilight princess,windwaker came out about 3 or 4 years before TP and went for the cell-shaded look, while TP went for realism, you look at them today or a year from now and chances are(if you don't hate cell shaded games) that graphically windwaker's the best, I know I'm quoting yahtzee here but nothing ages worse than a game that aims for realism
you know what escapist, the wii actually is this gens PS2
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I have to agree.FargoDog said:
Saying that the PS3 was weaker than the gamecube offends me personally.
PS2 wasn't the weakest of all the consoles when it was around.
As for the Wii being this generation's version, how about it just stays as this generations fastest selling console. There isn't much need to compare it to the past and it shouldn't probably be used if the only example you have is Twilight Princess.
The thing about the PS2 is that it lived LONG into this generation. I can bet money that the Wii won't last too long after the next best thing comes up.
As for the Wii being this generation's version, how about it just stays as this generations fastest selling console. There isn't much need to compare it to the past and it shouldn't probably be used if the only example you have is Twilight Princess.
The thing about the PS2 is that it lived LONG into this generation. I can bet money that the Wii won't last too long after the next best thing comes up.
Wasn't the PS2 the strongest considering it had the greatest game support, the xbox having only multiplatform games and Halo, and the Gamecube just living off of Mario and his friends having parties and playing sports?
I ment in terms of processing power and stuff like that, but nintendo and microsoft were trying to make theirs the most powerful at the time, plus where I lived the PS2 was being marketed a DVD player that can play games so Sony probably didn't mind how far ahead they could be graphicallyFargoDog said:
Hell no. There are many,many,MANY classic games on the PS2/ he Wii lives only on Mario and Zelda. If they got more noteworthy titles than we can talk.
The Wii is more this generations NES. The NES didn't have much real competition, and the Wii didn't either. Now the heat is really ramping up from Sony, with more and more PS3 games being released, and HDTVs coming down in price. The PS3 wasn't ripe when it was released, but it's ripe now, and everything's falling into place.
Wii sales are still going, but they're not as strong anymore, not like the PS2 which was still going strong well after the launch of the GC and Xbox.
Wii sales are still going, but they're not as strong anymore, not like the PS2 which was still going strong well after the launch of the GC and Xbox.
I'm not sure the Wii has the dominant third party support that the PS2 had. I don't think we'll ever see support like that every again. Not unless either Sony or Microsoft announces they're pulling out of the video games market.
exactly. the ps2 had so much fucking going for it, they lost it at launch for ps3 but are SLOWLY getting it back, the ps2 was by far the best overall experience from last gen.xRagnarok19 said:
Honestly, I don't know if there ever will be another PlayStation 2. There may be consoles that sell more, but I don't think there will ever come another one that dominates the market as much as it did. Or one that will last well into the next generation of consoles. Hell, at the rate we're going we'll probably see the PS2 on sale alongside the PS5 and equivalent Xbox model.
It wasn't the most powerful, it had a rather poor start and it kept the frustrating 2 controller ports that forced you to buy a multi tap, but it was an unstoppable juggernaut. The Wii, while selling incredibly well, isn't dominating like Sony's beast did.
It wasn't the most powerful, it had a rather poor start and it kept the frustrating 2 controller ports that forced you to buy a multi tap, but it was an unstoppable juggernaut. The Wii, while selling incredibly well, isn't dominating like Sony's beast did.
Major difference between the Wii and the PS2 is that the PS2 had a consistent supply of good games coming out. The Wii only has a few a year, the rest of the time being filled out with shovelware. And of course, the PS2 had much greater third-party support. The PS2 is leagues above the Wii in terms of what it achieved.
I remember the game 'Black' being the PS2's final hurrah. It was definitely a better console graphically than some people give it credit for.
I have no doubt that the PS3 will last long into the lifespan of the PS4. The PS3 took longer to get going than the PS2, but from the beginning the only thing anyone could complain about is that it was too expensive and had too few games. It's now down to the PS2's launch price, is getting a mid-gen boost with Move, has a ton of exclusive games as well as all the multi platform ones and has the greatest longevity thanks to not having hardware failure issues and actually having next gen support.Alpha1089 said:
The Wii is fizzing out, and will need a reboot in the next 1 - 2 years, and that will just be to keep up with where the PS3 is now. The Xbox 360 is slowly but steadily losing people to the PS3 as they're tired of having to replace it for the 4th time. I've bought quite a few accessories and games off ex-360 users. That will only continue, and eventually it'll just fizzle out. When people stop playing 360 and Wii, they'll still be playing the PS3. It's not going to be the same dominating juggernaught from start to finish that the PS2 was, but in the long run it'll be the closest thing, and it'll be something like the PS1.
Also, if Sony gets their shit together the PS4 will be built on the same Cell architecture, just more powerful, and it'll get PS3 backwards compatibility while launching at a lower price than the PS3 did, they'll do another repeat of the PS2.
The Ps2 had an insane amount of amazing games. We could be here forever listing them. The number of amazing Wii games, in my opinion, isn't even in the same ballpark.