Yeah. They've stopped production for the PS2.

It was the console that defined an era – but now Sony's PlayStation 2 has finally reached game over. The company has confirmed to the Guardian that after 12 years and 150m units sold worldwide, making it the most successful home games machine of all time, all PS2 production has ended worldwide.

Launched in 2000, the successor to the original PlayStation ended up with a library of more than 10,000 games titles by 2011, with 1.52bn individual games sold since launch. "At the height of the PlayStation 2's success, the word effectively came to mean video games for a lot of people," said Anna Marsh, a game designer who worked on Tomb Raider and Hitman.

Its success was down to three factors: cunning design, excellent games and great timing. Sony's decision to include a DVD player meant the machine found its way into living rooms, exposing many more to gaming. It trounced its underpowered rivals, the Nintendo GameCube and Sega Dreamcast, and became the exclusive home of must-have games such as Grand Theft Auto III, Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid – dominating an era in which developers were changing the rules of game design, crafting ambitious cinematic experiences and vast open-world adventures.

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Fuck this, I'm gonna keep mine.





Based on the Japanese comic, you play as a childhood friend of Nobue Itou, one of the comic's five heroines. It's summer vacation, and the girls have come to your home town, giving you a chance to get to know them better. Outside of Itou, you'll also meet Miu Matsuoka, Chjika Itou, Matsuri Sakuragi and Anna Coppola -- all college students(right). The game takes place over a one month period. Every day, you can perform two actions, including shopping, meeting with a girl, and even going out on dates. Prior to going to bed, you can exchange e-mails with the girls in order to better your relationship. As you play, the game displays a map of your home town, showing where the girls are at any given time(how the fuck does the game know that?).

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do you get teh ezsecks?

Do I look like I care about something as transient as ezsecks?

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then... do you get teh doki doki lavu lavu?

All I wanted was the brownies that open the way to the shimmering adamantium pits.

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i still have my ps2, and a shitlaod of games for it

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Just in time for the new XBox I hear.

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Xbox can go rape itself.

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lol.

PS2 had a shitload of JRPGS that I never got to play...

YOU TOLD ME YOU PLAYED THEM ALL!

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lol naw. I'd have to fill my entire wall with JRPGS

Let's finish this.

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