After over 10 years of huge well earned success i think that Sony might officially discontinue the
PlayStation 2 this or next year maximum.
The reason is simple no more games per year and sales drastically decreasing into a near stall. Some gaming sites removed it from its homepage UI like GameSpot and most importantly at E3 during Sony's press conference this year, they didn't even mention the
PS2 while in 2009 Jack Tretton talked about the games to be released in 2009-2010 for it.
Plummeting PS2 and PSP sales shrunk Sony's market share in 2009 (
Via Joystiq)
Sony Expects Higher PlayStation 3 Sales in 2010 (
Via IGN)
NPD: Behind the Numbers, November 2010 (
Via Gamesutra)
Nevertheless the
PS2 had and still has one of the best Libraries in gaming and through my browsing of these forums digging up the olds topics in the Gaming forums i have found out that most of the now
veterans of the website used to play
PS2.
Like the MGS series earned its rest the
PS2 should too given that the PS3 is making profits for Sony.
Any comments/ranting to my opinion is accepted but please abide by the rules.
P.S:This is pure speculation from my own analysis and the website Administrators are in no way related to this.