Portgas D. Ace said:
Fanboy to the Xtreme!
Anywayz PS2 was released year 2000 and the Xbox Nov. 8, 2001 so thats just 1 year,
sure you think im a fanboy, do i care? no
the xbox was released in the u.s late 2001 yeah but the console was released much later to the rest of the world, all countries out side north america got the system a year or 2 later
The success of the PS2 is becouse of the Game libery it had, whice was off course more then the xbox, if the xbox was so much better then people would have bought it.
26 million xbox sold in 4 years, 90 million PS2 sold in 5 years, so unles xbox sells 64 million more in the following year you have nothing to say.
lol @ given credit to games for the success of the ps2, the success of the ps2 was because of the lack of competition at the time and the rediculous hype, selling more consoles does not whatsoever mean thats it is a better system, its all in the hype and popularity of the name.
1 - ps2 came out before xbox which leaves many owners not to go out and buy another gaming system
2 - xbox was microsofts debut console, many if not all had little or no knowledge of the system at all, many gamers already had the ps2 attached to their tv's when the xbox came out so going out and buying another system that they dont know nothing about is not likely.
3 - ps2 had obviously the support of ps1, thats a 5 year advantage of play station gaming around the world over microsoft, and that my friend is where the credit is due to the success of ps2. selling just under 30 million consoles worldwide for a debut console years after the release of the much much more popular ps2 is outstanding.
A list of PS2 game worth mentioning huh? okay, here they come
Devil May Cry 3 < KOTOR (best game of 2004)
Tekken 5 < DOA Ultimate
Onimusha 3 < Ninja Gaiden
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater < Splinter Cell Chaos theory
Gran Turismo 4 < Forza motorsport
Final Fantasy XII < Jade Empire
SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs < Halo 1
Kingdom Hearts II < Fable
Kill Zone < Halo 2 easily better
http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/bestworst.asp
- top 20 games of this year
xbox has 9 of the 20 > ps2 has only 5 (ps2 fanboy: "OMG PS2 is better because it has many more games" and yet the xbox has almost twice as many games among the 20 highest rated games of this year, not to mention that sony released 40% more games this year, go figure
- worst 20 games of 2005
ps2 has 9 of the 20 < xbox has only 5 (which again proves my point that ps2 releases crappy game after crappy game)
all time 20 highest rated games
xbox 4 ps2 4 , for a debut console that aint bad at all, if we look at sonys debut which is the ps1 it has only 1 game on the list so
sonys debut < microsofts debut
overall: ps2 is no match for the Xbox