Schizophrenic Sony Schedules Slim PS2
By Luke McKinney
In a move which proves that their different departments don’t even have each others phone numbers, Sony has announced plans to release a compact cut-price PS2 in 2008.
The new model, reported by MCV, will boast an integrated power supply and a twenty percent drop in price – thereby making it the exact opposite of the Playstation 3.
The news comes hot on the heels of the announcement that the new PS3 model will not support PS2 games (as we reported earlier). This makes it pretty clear that Sony don’t have a clue what they hell they’re doing, or that if they do have an overall strategy then it’s "suck as much money out of our loyal fans as humanly possible".
The non-backwards compatible PS3 is clearly designed to boost the dismal sales of titles exclusive to the system, despite that having to force your customers to buy the games indicates a deeper problem. When that means preventing them from accessing the huge and well respected PS2 games library, that’s bad. When you then release another product depending exclusively on the same library, that’s downright psychotic.
This puts developers in an awkward position – does Sony support PS2 games at all? Will Sony create further obstacles for those whose only crime is wanting to make games for a system people love, instead of the incredibly labour-intensive one that not many people have?
Any business can fail if it treats its customers with disrespect, especially an entertainment company, and double-especially when they shoot past ‘disrespect’ and into "We’ve crippled our expensive new product, and released a new separate product that you have to buy as well!"
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November 3rd, 2007
I swear you people dont have a clue what you are talking about. Its like you find a piece of news and do whatever you can to make it look bad for the PS3 even if it makes the entire piece (AND YOU) look retarded.
They have said for years they intend to sell the PS2 for around 10 years. You appear to be the only people on earth who aren’t aware of that.
November 3rd, 2007
They intend to sell the PS2 for ten years, and then purposefully deny later PS3 customers access to that market. That doesn’t just look bad, that is bad.
November 3rd, 2007
The only MENTAL here is you, Luke McKinney.
November 4th, 2007
The autor of this “article” is the only psychotic here.
November 4th, 2007
who’s coming up with these stupid ideas……did the xbox 360 have backward compatibillity……NO!!!!. so i dont see what the big deal is with the ps3 not having it. if you really want bad marketing look at microsoft.
unlike microsoft, sony didnt abandon its last gen console. there are still titles coming out for the ps2. like fifa 08 which sold more copies on th ps2 then it did for the 360.
dont try to make one console look worse off then the other, when the console your trying to make look good did almost the exact same thing. (retard)
November 4th, 2007
Another mindless price drop after the iPhone :O
November 4th, 2007
Sure, the logic may seem wrong but one has to wonder how much xbox360 sales were helped because for people buying it, backward compatibility wasn’t an issue. I have a ton of PS2 games for my old PS2. But if buying a PS3 doesn’t allow me to play them, way not just buy a xbox 360?
As for PS2 games… am I the only that seems to have noticed that Best Buy and Target seem to be on the verge of ending them?