Sony has confirmed that its faithful black box has ceased production worldwide, following news last week of production coming to an end in Japan.
Sony has confirmed to The Guardian that the end of production isn’t exclusive to Japan. The PlayStation 2 has been in production for 12 years and sold 150 million units worldwide, making it the best selling console in history–not a bad achievement.
The PlayStation 2 brought many gamers hours of joy and will be sorely missed by millions.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
RIP Playstation 2.
This is a sign that Sony is freeing up capacity for Playstation 4.
Rip indeed. This game spawned many classics and will be remember for it's accessibility and exclusives. Looking at the positives, however, this may imply the PS4 announcement is on the horizon. I'm looking at mine right now, I can see the GRAND THEFT AUTO trilogy, Silent Hill games, ICO; the PS2 had an amazing library.
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All great leaders must be laid to rest sometimes. Thanks for the 12 year memories PS2. So sad you won't be able to see you Great grand son be born soon.
No matter how long the timeline, at some point, any given thing comes to a stop.
The sony playstation 2 was, and probably always will be the best console I've ever owned. I'm proud to have been a part of the greatest gaming legacy of all time.
Done so much right for so many years. Rest now big guy.