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Keep the faith, readers: PS2 lives on here in Japan. The old dear managed to outsell the PS3 for several weeks this summer, and it's still moving more than 10,000 units each week, while Sega's Seaman 2 (a PS2 exclusive) sits at the top of the Japanese charts. The PS2 market is in fine health, sticking two fingers up at the new generation.
Such a fertile market, coupled with diminished development costs, makes it viable for developers to pursue pretty much any goal they might care to on Sony's nearly eight-year-old format. Which is, of course, great news for gamers.
One of the upshots of the PS2's unique position in Japan -- it has an installed user-base of 20 million-plus here, it continues to sell, and it's still powerful enough not to be a technological embarrassment -- is Sega's commitment to publishing 30-odd volumes of retro remakes, which dig through Sega's archives like an impatient retro addict at a jumble sale.
Learn more here
Such a fertile market, coupled with diminished development costs, makes it viable for developers to pursue pretty much any goal they might care to on Sony's nearly eight-year-old format. Which is, of course, great news for gamers.
One of the upshots of the PS2's unique position in Japan -- it has an installed user-base of 20 million-plus here, it continues to sell, and it's still powerful enough not to be a technological embarrassment -- is Sega's commitment to publishing 30-odd volumes of retro remakes, which dig through Sega's archives like an impatient retro addict at a jumble sale.
Learn more here