EDGE has made available this week a very interesting article on the origins of the original Sony PlayStation console which is a good read for fans of gaming, Sony, or history in general.
"This is a story that isn?t just about the design of an object made from silicon, plastic and metal. Nor is it just the story of the corporate politics that allowed the project to commence. It?s also ... [ read the full article ]
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You can't deny that the PS1 and PS2 were - and to a great extent, the latter still is - the rockstars of video games. To this day, I've put away my Wii and Xbox 360 just to be emersed in playing the PS2. I still consider it the best video game console ever, even beter than the Wii and 360.
People lament the poor graphics on the ps2..so i fire up the ps2 emulator everyone is raving about and set ff12 to 1920x1200. Wow..a feast for the eyes. ALmost looks next-gen and really is a completely different experience, provided you have a high end dual core for most games. The thing with the ps2 is..playability. God of War 2, Colossus, Ratchet, Dark Cloud 2..not really any comparisons to the pc market. Totally different beast, but at least the emulation scene is hoping to bring some of Sony's better titles to the PC crowd.
I actually didn't play on the PS2 all that much (which is blasphemy, I know. Especially when I played a lot on the PS1 before it). The game library is superb but mind you that I got the PS2 late and I use Swap Magic, which is quite irritating (having to boot it up and swap discs every time you want to play. Having a game disc stop spinning on you because the magic key for sensor A got loose. lol You really have to tape that thing down) and is probably the reason why I didn't invest much time in the PS2. DS Flash carts, however, are very convenient and the DS games are pick-up-and-play so the end result is, I ended up playing my DS way more than my PS2. And plus I now have a 360 so PS2 is like 3rd (4th when I'm playing a PC game) in the pecking order and is mostly used as a DVD/Xvid player now. Maybe if I used a more convenient alternative method to Swap Magic, I'd probably give my PS2 more time. Hopefully PS2 emulation (and Gamecube too!) improves so I don't have to worry about that. lol.
PS2 graphics were really swung buy the age of the game I was messin on some of the earlier games and they did nothing but blag my head whereas the newer games were pretty decent looking then I got to games like Sonic unleashed that had been made for the PS3/360 gen and they were worse then the very early games. Lazy porting is killing the PS2!
