Do you remember the days of the 8MB memory card, wired controllers, and graphics so beautiful you wept at the sight of them?<\/p>\n
Those were the days of the PlayStation 2, and it was a grand time.<\/p>\n
The sliding DVD tray, the power brick, Kratos and TimeSplitters. The era of DLC-less titles, the era when you had to buy a special adapter to play 4-players games, and\u00a0you had get to a save point before you could go to bed.<\/p>\n
A time when you packed your memory card in the allocated PS2 box once you had switched off your console.<\/p>\n
It was a period in our lives most\u00a0of us will never forget, and do not want to.<\/p>\n
To pay tribute to the days of the PS2, let us take a look back at what made the console great.<\/p>\n
On 4 March 2000, the PS2 was unleashed\u00a0upon the world. Since then, it has sold over 155 million units, 1.5 billion games have been bought, and\u00a03,780 games have been developed for it. Sony also redesigned the console, as they usually do with their products, so it did not look dated.<\/p>\n
The PS1 was undoubtedly\u00a0a hard act to follow, but the PlayStation 2 become an icon in its own right. It changed gamer’s expectations, franchises were born, studios were opened, and we experienced interactive titles on a new level.<\/p>\n
12 years on, late in 2012, Sony announced they had ceased production of the console.<\/p>\n