DVD Player
This might seem like such a little issue these days, but VHS was still around and strong when the PS2 first launched. I feel so old typing that. I remember the first DVD player I ever bought, it was $200 from Sony and it wasn’t even the high end one. The PS2 at launch was $300, which was a bit ritzy at the time, but well worth it for a home entertainment device.
That’s what the DVD player actually did. It transformed the PS2 in to a device that didn’t just play games. Nintendo didn’t have that, Microsoft didn’t have that without an extra add-on, Sony had that built in. It made the PS2 a much better value because of it. With all the fancy consoles I have lying around these days, I still have my PS2 plugged in as a make shift DVD player.
Sony released the PS3 in late 2006, which is 6 years and a few months. People have been buying new PS2’s until 6 years after the PS2 was replaced. That is not a fluke and the DVD player had a lot to do with it.
