PlayStation 2: Still Worth The Money
I have to admit it… I couldn’t wait.
I bought a Playstation 2 over the weekend. I was a diehard Xbox fan for years, but when Microsoft skipped the backwards compatibility, I took XBox 360 off the list. I thought my only other option was Playstation 3 that was coming out in November, but I seriously couldn’t wait. Too many really fun games were coming out for Playstation 2 that I wanted to play NOW.
When I saw that FYE had the console available with a $30 rebate, I jumped in with both feet.
Want to know the first game I bought?
Dance Factory by Codemasters: It’s a DDR clone that lets you dance to ANY music CD! It creates the dance moves for you. I’ll have a review of it later this week!
Want to know what pushed me over the edge to finally buy a Playstation 2 only two months before the release of the Playstation 3? There were several reasons:
Playstation 3 is going to cost at least 500-600 bucks! I’m not willing to pay that price in November. I’m sure the price will go down later, but then I’d have to wait even LONGER. Why not just buy the PS2 now?
All my PS2 games will work on the PS3 when I finally DO buy one. The true money in this is the games, not the console. Spending $100 on a console now means I can play all those games now without waiting.
When the PS3 finally does come out, there will only be a couple games for it. I’m only missing out on a few games by choosing the older system.
DDR SuperNova is coming out in a couple of days. Yet ANOTHER game that I can’t play on my Xbox.
All these factors made shelling out the 100 bucks for an almost obsolete console worth it to me.
Funny thing?
I’m so happy with it! It’s so tiny that it slid into the television stand right next to the Xbox. I don’t have to sacrifice Project Gotham. I can have both of them alongside each other living happily in my house. I really thought I had to have one or the other, but now that I have both on the same television, I’m just pleased as punch.
PS3? Yeah, I’ll probably get one eventually, but for now, I’m stoked about all the games I can now play on PS2 that I could never play on the Xbox.
Gran Tourismo, anyone?