What went right?

What went right?

Was it just luck? Nintendo always had the most popular games.

DVDs

Barrage of quality games and the built in dvd player back when the format was just taking hold

Huge ass library.

In chronological order:
successor to the PS1, DVD player, high quality games, shit tons of games, cheap

Good games.

Marketing.

Sega died and the XBox was brand new. This meant one less established company to go against with the XBox having no established brand value beyond Microsoft's. This was especially important in Japan and Europe, Europe because Sega had typically dominated Nintendo there and Japan because they're a bunch of racist fucks who would never support an American console. The only real competition was Nintendo, and Sony won out by being cheaper, having more 3rd party support, and having DVD support.

TOO
MANY
GOAT
GAMES
literally impossible to list all the masterpieces released on that fucker

It had a shitload of quality games

Pretty much this. I didn't even play many PS2 games but the dvd player sold it for me.

While growing up I had the N64 and GC and my neighbor had the PS1 and PS2, it was truly the golden age of gaming. There was always something to get hyped about. The Xbox was shit though.

DEE
BUU
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It stayed on the market for like 30 years. It's still really popular in shithole nations.

DVD Player Included is what went right.
A cheap DVD player from sony that also is a game console? Yupp

I literally only bought one just to play GTA3.
When my brother sold my ps2 for crack, I had to buy another one. Then, when I was in the military and deployed, I bought another one just to play GTA3 in the tent with my platoon.

They didn't stop selling the Ps2 until about three years ago.

I had a shitload of quality games, backwards compatibility and a DVD player.

>implying
All those mech games man

DVDs, had all the multiplats (even if not the best versions) and tons of big name exclusives like Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy and MGS.
If you're were buying only 1 console it was the best option

DVD player

3rd world countries

DVD player. It's kinda ironic that Sony tried to do that with the PS3 and even having the cheapest BluRay player on the market (or awhile) didn't sell that shitpile.

>We will NEVER experience another golden age renaissance like the PS2

Granted, there was a lot of shovelware, but there were still way more classics on that black monolith than any other medium today.

In terms of why it sold: It was a DVD player, had good marketing, Sony was coming off the success of the PS2, and it had quality games games

In terms of why it had quality games: Industry was still led by Japanese devs, it wasn't dominated by shitty Western devs who raised the cost of game development to astronomical prices yet. Games didn't require all that many resources to make either since they weren't unnecessarily large-scale projects. These factors made for faster development times and lot more original and quality video games being produced, more than we'll ever see nowadays.

Name one

the PS3 sold the same ammount as the 360, retard.

By the end of the generation, yes. The PS3 only started selling around 2009/2010, it sold like shit and got dominated by the 360 for its first few years.

PS3 sales were trash until they rebranded and released the slim.

I find it a shame that the ps4 got popular for the wrong reasons, and it's got nothing on the ps2. I was hoping the ps4 would be the next ps2 but I guess it will never happen. Most of my weeb games are coming to pc anyways. Not trying to start console bullshit either, I had a ps2 and ps3 and at least the ps3 had some good games on it, but the ps4 has almost nothing.

Dreamcast died before the PS2 was an actual thing.

>Nintendo always had the most popular games.

They do, the best selling N64 game still sold more than the best selling PS1 game

DVD and widespread piracy.

True, but look at the dropoff on N64. Pic related, top ten bestsellers for each system.

The most popular game series are Nintendo's. That's fact, my ninja.

Every popular console was for the wrong reasons. NES became popular because it branded itself as a "family entertainment system" with stupid gimmicks. PlayStation family all became popular for reasons other than games (CD player, DVD player, Blu-Ray, online shit). Wii became popular because of stupid gimmicks targeted to stupid old people and children. Even the Genesis only became popular because of their "attitude"

>Games didn't require all that many resources to make either since they weren't unnecessarily large-scale projects.
Is that why 90% of its library is shovelware?

it was the cheapest dvd player

It's better than anything Nintendo, Microsoft or Sega ever released.

It's that easy.

That and the fact that it sold a shitton. Same thing with the Wii, sold a shitton and was cheap to produce for.

I don't really hate shovelware desu, it helps keeps some good companies afloat and a shitton of quality games still came out for the PS2 and Wii.

>What went right?

Saying it's 90% shovelware is irrelevant when it had so many games in general that the 10% non-shovelware is still more games than either of the other consoles.

it was a good and cheap dvd player

>Insane marketing budget, put to good use as well
>Insane amount of games
>Insane amount of tie ins and licensed games

Literally the cheapest DVD player on the market.

The failure rate was ridiculous and they had like 6 models

The only thing it matters is how many good games a console had. Nobody is forced to play shovelware.

>tfw I grew up on GC and XBox and only played most PS2 classics because of PSN and HD ports

So long as you still played and enjoyed them I don't see anything wrong with that.

because it's objectively the best console of all time
>dvd/cd player
>cheap
>huge library
>good games
>fully backwards compatible