Best games consoles: PlayStation 2, the console that made Nintendo and Sega weep

By Patrick Goss

Rarely does an Editor take issue with their audience, but when the votes of the best console of all time were counted I was genuinely gobsmacked that Sony’s impeccable PlayStation 2 was not the runaway winner.

Consoles are still in their infancy, and yet in hundreds of years’ time people will look back and pick out the PlayStation 2 as a console that changed the very face of gaming; at the heart of dragging an industry out of the basement and into the mainstream.

This was a console that served as a platform to some of the most iconic games of all time: the breakthrough versions of names such as Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo and God of War.

Best seller

This was and is, for good reason, the biggest selling console of all time, shipping an astonishing 155 million units.

This was the console that propped up the proud old Sony corporation, rattled Nintendo to its core and played a big part in finally sinking Sega.

Few could have imagined that the PS2 would become such a hero product for Sony – a company that was better known even then for televisions and audio.

But clever decisions (backwards compatibility with …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming