Microsoft shrugs off PlayStation 2 price cut

el serpiente, I forgot to undo replying to.

Joystiq readers shrug off obvious flame bait.

Given that a 360 can be purchased for only a bit more than a PS2 here they have every right to shrug it off.

Troll bait post

Yoshinori Kitase has declared that Final Fantasy XIII will use 100 percent of power of the Playstation 3.

Cheers to that.


DA POWER OF THA CELL!!

Well said Serp and it's exactly what I was coming here to mention. For the poorer countries the PS2 will be a great platform to get affordable games in peoples homes. To think that you can get a PS2 for $100 is a pretty cool thing in itself. I might pick one up for the kids bedroom which currently houses our now defunct HD-DVD player which functions as a DVD player. We'll move the HD-DVD back into our bedroom (Planet Earth FTW) and drop a PS2 in there. If the darn Wii had DVD Playback we would have left it in there full time.

360 is the best current option for gaming and MS knows that. Actually, pretty everyone this side of the Wii knows it, or else PS3 would sell much better.

It's actually said to see Sony dropping from #1 in the last generation to #3 (a.k.a last) in the current one in sales. Even sadder is seeing how some still thinks the PS3 is not a complete disaster from Sony's part.

Think about it, I mean, just give it a quick thought: when you are the leading platform for 7 years, selling 4 times the competition combined, you expect your new platform to perform better than last place comercially.

Actually, for Sony, being the most sold console in the current gen would be bad if the gap to the competition was closing, seeing how last generation was such an easy win and money was aplenty. But to actually sell less than both your competitors, after such a huge worldwide phenomenon that was the PS2, that is a comercial tragedy in anyone's eyes. I simply can not understand how some people still think that Sony is not that desperate. True.

"Why wouldn't it be awesome?"

Cause that's pretty sad, a nearly 10 year old console outselling a far superior less than 3 year old one.

Pretty amazing that it still gets so much news coverage, and still sells so well, one hell of a system.
Interesting point about Microsoft having no other horse to back but their next-gen one (which is starting to already show its age), Ninty doesn't either (Gamecube still sell, anywhere?), Sony would indeed be completely insane to stop making the PS2.

Why can't microsoft just stop disregarding sony. It's just immature. This is the reason why I won't buy their product.