Sony Playstation 2 - Sixth VideoGame Generation Recap - Adam Koralik 

Yep the PS2 didn't kill Dreamcast it but it definitely buried it.

Comrade Stalin!!!

The first year of Dremacast was far superior to the first year of the ps2. But marketing and the DVD player. To be fair a couple of years in it really did pick up. GTA II and Metal Gear II.

Sega made mistakes with their decision with the Saturn, which in turn, affect the Dreamcast. But PS2 is still responsible unintentially to murder majority of the sales of the GameCube and bury Dreamcast even further down the line. Sony's inclusion of a built in DVD and playing playing the games is what made lot of consumers give attention to PS2 the most, especially with the affordable price. It's a brilliant strategy for lot of people prefering to buy PS2 over its competitors and the fact that Sega made mistakes that made people not trust them in a long run is the extra kicker to bury Sega in terms of console hardware after the early discontinuation of the Dreamcast. Sega made mistakes that affect their hardware business, but PS2 gave the final blow.

Thank you sir.

@@AdamKoralik Yeah, you can express yourself in a good manor even if you rip some of my heart. I understand that you are not a big fan of the PS2 and I respect that. You have an opinion and that is grate. You are a good content creator, you should do more videos. (Especially on the PS2, can you do a accessories recap, why, because I sadly never owned the multitap for any PlayStations. I know how it works but I would like to know more pls.)

@Hendrou Bilo PS3 controller compared to ps4 controller hurts my hands

something like a historical fact that PS2 was presented more as a dvd player than an actual gaming machine which it was supposed to be, how tf it is an opinion??

Greg Lytle hey it was

your so true adam awesome reviews on the consoles, i love your review on n64, xbox 360 and the wii u, im an xbox gamer myself but im saving my money up for next gen and the wii u does look cool

tom newbon Thanks for watching!

I do argee with you,but that's how I always thought.I don't actually hate,but I flipping did love the backwards compatible with PS1 games since I played more PS1 games and.CDs then PS2 games and DVDs.I still buy games for the consoles,a lot of mature and Sega related games as I do not mean to give the Playstation 2 'backslash',but really loved the Playstation 1,had a lot of great memories especially with Toy Story Racer.

I still love my PS2. i had mine since 2008.

I have had my Playstation 2 since 2005,the slimline model.

Wish more people did that. DC had well over 200 games out by Christmas of 200, and I can say with confidence that at least 75 percent of them were worth playing. However, everyone's got to ride the hype train, just so they don't feel left out.

2000/2001 (first half) was fascinating. Dreamcast gamers were definitely having more fun, until they were forced to move on.

MrDeathSmiles We've all been there. I sold a bunch of consoles and games to a Funcoland when I was a kid to buy some new games for my Dreamcast, I later came to regret it.

I do appreciate that.

I’m the same, he has good charisma

Take your meds kid.LOL....

@@ModernClassicWorld How about you take yours?

Appreciated, but there are 12 people who definitely wouldn't agree with you sir.

AdamKoralik real world teachers I suppose! haha

Trip Hawkins founder of EA Games and the 3DO company is a professor at my brothers university, UCSB.

Yea

They all introduced something: PS1- CD, PS2- DVD, PS3- Blu-Ray, PS4- shitty game streaming.

KILLIE1869 The PS1 introduced CDs to game consoles in absolutely no way.

Ps2 was an amazing console, just cause it promoted DVD it doesn’t mean it was bad in any way

KILLIE1869 Ummm SEGA CD did that.

XAVIER1992 that's an add on,NOT a solo dedicated console itself.

downphoenix also MGS 2

Nick that wasn't a launch game lol...

Wasn't Zone of the Enders a launch title?

Tekken Tag Tournament 1 was the only one worth playing at launch. That's all I remember playing til next year in 2001 when they finally got games. Hehe. Good times

If ps2 had Need For Speed underground at release..

ps2 didn't really have any great fps games though, that's what Xbox caught on with, and that's the direction that 360 went in to win last gen. oh wait Wii won last gen didn't it? but yeah ps2 probably has the best game library of any system ever, shadow of the Collossus, gta, final fantasy. the ps2 did rpg games well and perfected what I call "the movie style game." the best ps2 games were 3rd person rpgs with cuts scenes that made you feel like you were playing through a movie, either rendered in real time, or pre recorded on the dvd, or a mix of both.

You seem to have confused the ps2 library with that of the dreamcast's

Kelly Kapowski Well I can see you are a dude bro gamer. Sadly, those group of gamers are known as a poison to gaming. That's why the PS2 outsold the OG Empty Box, despite it looking better.

halo3odst Dreamcast Had some great games like Shenmue. But keyword here, SOME. PS2 Had many great games that at that time, no other series could beat in story, graphics and sometimes gameplay. Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons Of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater, Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2, Soul Calibur 3, Final Fantasy X and many other classics that MOST people remembered and enjoyed for years and years and even now. Meanwhile, lets look at the other consoles. The Dreamcast has some memorable games, again, Shenmue, Shenmue 2 Sonic Adventure 1, Sonic Adventure 2 and Virua Fighter. Those games are good and even great, but honestly, do people remember those games more than the PS2 games I mentioned? The games I named out lived for a very long time. Meanwhile, Shenmue is just getting its third game, and at the time it gets it, Metal Gear Solid would have been at its 5th game by game (Though that one kinda sucks). Alright! Onto GameCube. I actually have no beef with the GameCube. It has great games itself. I loved playing Zelda end of end. Thing is though, Nintendo has a third party issue and has it to this day. They still couldn't get classics like Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater or even Kingdom Hearts. The only Nintendo platforms Kingdom Hearts ever came on was handhelds. Again, GameCube? Great exclusives, but shit third party support. Now (Sigh) we talk about the OG Xbox. Oh God! The dude bro console. First off, let me say this, the OG Xbox had a lot of great ideas. Xbox Live Was a great service and it paved the way for service based online services, it had more content in multiplats and yeah, the graphics on its console was the BEST out of all consoles. Sadly, those were the only good things the OG Xbox did well. Lets break down why I think it's the WORST out of the 6th generation. Games are the biggest reason. Really now? Who the fuck talked about Halo like that? Yeah I'm sure it was pretty popular, but not compared to anything on PS2. All it did was start an online multiplayer dude bro crowd. (Claps hands) congrats Failsoft! You guys basically started the cancer tread of gaming from 2004 and onward. No one talks about the fucking horrible story of Halo and the horrible main character of Master Chief. He is no Solid Snake or Sora. He has no depth to him. He is just a wanna bad ass space marine with a horrible voice. Give me a break. They had no other big memorable title on the OG Xbox either. In conclusion, the PS2 wasn't a perfect console, but the console or its power is irrelevant. It had great games on It that was remembered for a reason. That alone is why people love the PS2, myself included.

At launch PS2 didn't have much true, but that changed and very quickly. It wasn't just the DVD player that made it sell so much unlike what some people say. Was a factor sure but not the sole reason.

I'm glad you enjoyed it sir.

The PlayStation brand is the "Jack of all,Master of none"My first system was the N64 then PSone,Gamecube,PS2,Wii,XBox 360,PS3,Wii U,PS4 and XBox One.Never got a dreamcast because it was discontinued by the time my mum was going to get it for Christmas and never got an OG XBox because after the DUALSHOCK 2 I hated the original XBox controller and not many of the exclusives appealed to my gaming taste and you needed to buy an extra remote and dongle to watch DVDs

Personally, I've always loved the name, PS2. It speaks to a level of minimalism and continued line of success. The name, like the famous "299" speech epitomizes the personality of Sony. They didn't try to win people over with elaborate names based on planets or cats. Their surgical prose is clear, concise, and speaks volumes greater than the sum of its parts. Ever since the Nintendo CD fiasco, they've always been the gaming company with a vengeance, and for that, I find their straight-to-business attitude badass.

Some bloke here in Britain back in 2000/2001 legally changed his name to PlayStation 2 LOL

Nintendo always changes their name except for the Wii U and SNES. (Not counting portables). And guess what the Wii U was a fail because of its name. Nintendo changed the name for the Wii and DS and look those are Nintendo’s most successful consoles

That’s literally what he said in the video

@@MalarkeyMan the DS was successful because Nintendo dominated the portable gaming scene and everyone knew how good Nintendo was in handleds the wii was successful because of their marketing strategy by targeting casuals the Wii U failed because of their target audience and bad marketing casuals don’t care about upgrading to the next generation console and the bad marketing didn’t help people thought it was a tablet add on

(I know this comment is old but still) Even with the fantastic GTA III, Sega could not make a comeback, one of the main reasons PS2 did so well at launch was not only the brand itself (With the PS1 being the third best selling console of all time) but the fact that it could play DVDs out of the box in the early 2000s, keep in mind, it's like getting a budget DVD player with an extra system attached to play games. It appealed to casuals even before the Wii hit.

Yeah sounded like Cartman

Unique Games PS2 - Excellent Library, PS3 - Great Library, PS4 - Amazing Potential Library N64 - Excellent Library, NGameCube - Good Library, NWii - Okay Library, NWiiU - Good Library, NNext - ? Xbox 360 - Good Library, Xbox One - Great Potential Library

The Rational Man The GameCube had an absolute excellent library along with the Wii U

xbone is fine. at the moment it has more good games than ps4 (though 2015 is gonna be awesome for ps4)

Sergey Abdulov That has nothing at all to do with the name. XBone is also not its name, it's actually a derogatory term for it.

Ah you are talking about its name, sorry

Sergey Abdulov All good.

No. The worst console is the Saturn. Also, Xbone isn't a derogatory term. It's a term that's been used to shorten the name of the console ever since E3 2013, like PS4 is a shortened name for Playstation 4.

Gray FOX Come on dude, I obviously have more than the games I showed in the video. I can't do the whole collection or we'd be here all day. What you're not getting is my issue isn't with the games, it's with the console themselves, what they represent, and how poorly they were made.

***** It goes beyond that. Most fanboys are general to a group. "Nintendo 4 life" "XBox Supreme!" "Playstation Nation!' "Sega Forever!" These guys are hyper focused on an obsession with the PS2 that is obscene. Coming from a guy so in love with one console (the Dreamcast) that I took the time to get a complete set for it, that says a lot.

***** You get used to it. The people I feel bad for are the ones who have legitimate reasons to love that console, but they get lumped in with the insane. Though that happens in many aspects of life, nothing new there.

Va de gustos pues?!!! Para mi ps2 es lo mejor y la sega dreamcast fue muy limitada . Pero es por gustos y es respetable. Saludos

My favorite game of all time was on ps2 the cult followed gauntlet 7 sorrows. Followed by twisted metal black

Not always. It makes aliasing worse in many instances by making the image look too sharp. Very obvious on Resident Evil 4 or Final Fantasy XII. I like S-Video better, it's really smooth (you mean the Japanese / european SCART/ RGB system right ?)

I agree with you at the begning of the video its not my favorite it a most sucks Xbox was my favorite I'm no fan boy but the ps2 almost had ps1 grafiics

I did turn it down, i had to. Results vary depending on the game. F-Zero GX is stellar.

It does blur things up a bit, which hides a lot of the ugly stuff, but the result is not as good as playing on a CRT. But all i had to do was remove my glasses...

RGB smoothens aliasing a little bit, i mean true rgb not composite. Composite gives you bad colors, horrible contour and blurry images. I have never been able to stand it ever since it appeared on the PS1/N64, i bought a RGB cable for all my consoles. I believe myTV has a pretty decent upscaler, and most of the sources i use are not Full HD. Even my computer is set to 780 because in full HD the letters are too small i hate it. The upscaler has a lot to do with the final result. My TV is from sharp, made in japan, which i believe is the most serious manufacturer along with panasonic. (They basically make the retina screens for the ipads). I play PS2 with RGB and it looks pretty good (i mean for a ps2). The gamecube games i play in Composite using my WII and most of them look better than with RGB, but also sharper which in some cases makes defaults very visible, but i don't like using the sharpness control of the TV because it just makes the image blurry. SO all i have to do is play far from the TV and forget to wear my glasses.

Thanks!

At least the PS2 had a better launch than the Dreamcast in Japan.

That's a good point, I never really thought about that.

I feel like the ps1 also had this issue. Always having to look through shovel wear just to find something decent.

Yeah PS1 was the same in many ways.

Thanks!

I....didn't knock the games dude.

yes I know and you told us that, thats was I gave you the point that in fact ps2 is the worst console on that generation comparing on graphics etc, but the games was the only thing that for me make it the best console because have everything to choose, and well have a lot of rpg and horror games that is my fav type of game. Also I think the ps2 is the console with most official game releases I think again, have over 2000, again I think

lol

My ps3 plays the ps2 library, making it the best game console of all time by your logic.

halo3odst Well PS3 was better than Xbox 360. The failure gap of the Xbox 360 and PS3 shows that. (Cough) RROD (Cough).

+Sheldon Murphy Thanks!

The ps2 would still be very successful even if it didn’t have dvd

@@AdrianL2805 nah ps1 was very successful so ps2 would still be more plus most of you don’t realize it wasn’t just old people buying it for dvds if your a kid you can make the excuse of buying ps2 to your parents so then they could enjoy dvd on it and then you as a kid could play games so ps2 was also a chance for kids to make the excuse to get a gaming console because of the dvd plus ps2 has 453 exclusives Xbox only had 95 plus 25 percent of them are probably on pc so there fake exclusives whenever I say onimusha 3 is ps2 exclusives people bring up the pc port wich ya onimusha 2 and 4 are the only real ps2 exclusives in onimusha series but the thing is how can Xbox players say elder scrolls morriwind is og Xbox exclusives when that’s on pc but apparently I’m not allowed to say onimusha 3 is ps2 exclusives wich is dumb to me. would PlayStation 2 go to the 100s if it didn’t have dvd no but I still think it would win but maybe not you know why because Xbox had a DVD player it was guilty of lt I remember this guy I know who owned a Xbox just for dvd you think I’m joking so Xbox also was guilty of it but PlayStation 2 was a better DVD player you didn’t need to use a remote even tho there was ps2 remote and the ps2 is smaller too so I can see some dvd guy getting ps2 for dvd over Xbox for dvd plus there are many times PlayStation 2 looked better true crime New York City looked way better on ps2 and had better fps then GameCube and Xbox did look a little better but the Xbox had a game breaking glitch that doesn’t let you finish the game there’s tons of other time PlayStation 2 beat GameCube that no one talks about but as for ps2 and Xbox Xbox multiplatform usually a little better or there even like burnout 3 takedown looks near identical to Xbox version plus ps2 was first console to have more than 4 players ya not much people know that smh it’s as if PlayStation 2 is overtalked about but underrated in the same time PlayStation 2 online was underrated games like monster hunter and resident evil outbreak online we’re revolutionary socom too I guess but socom a little bland to me I should try it it’s like tactical shooter and had online and was exclusives never even played ps2 online I wish I did

Yep, the age would definitely be a factor. Though to avoid being hypothetical, that's also why the NES for example doesn't mean much to me as it was mostly before my time.

they did make a gta game for dreamcast

BeastMaster69 what is it called please let me know

One Boy Many Memes Official it’s GTA 2

Yeah, tell me about it.

They should just respect your opinion.

LittlestObow Would be nice, but it's whatever.

True

+This no gay, this Wesley Thanks for watching.

AdamKoralik oh, it is my pleasure! Keep up the good work!

+AdamKoralik you forgot to mentioned the ps2 until 2012 was able to run NETFLIX. I think if the Ps2 had better image clarity you would love it. Also, have you ever tried to connect your "PS2 To HDMI" to your "Scart to HDMI" converter using the HDMI as input? I was wondering how it would look like

+Chuyi Vue the ps2 image clarity is not an issue, it has a video filter that makes jagged edges extremrly less noticible when using component cable. i played some ps2 on ps3 and the image looks inferior imo because that sprcial ps2 filter is gone and i can notice jagged edges even more.

I wasn't really including handhelds.

AdamKoralik My bad lol Still awesome Video I didn't know there was an Altered Beast on the PS2, I was like "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???" lol

I would dispute that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H0J3ERZ3nTk.html

Nuon Master Race.

Matthew Graey Use a component cable on your hdtv with the ps2 and it will look way better

It might help a little, but not much. The sad reality of the PS2 is that the video output is just...awful.

Hey I'm Milki ツ and Tekken Tag Tournament 1. How can you forget that?

uppermostking02 It was designed for newer TV, but the clarity sucks so it looks better on CRT. I don't have anything againts CRTs or PS2 (actually like CRTs because of high refresh rates and I had a PS2 [didn't liked it so well because of the controller]).

he preorder the ps2, so he played on old school crt...

Thank you sir.

i hate playstation controller, and was my first console.

The ps1/2/3 controller was always uncomfortable due to the analog sticks and the short handles

mrsiggia People don't like it because they think it's too small for their hands. I personally have small hands so It doesn't bother me but I understand where they're coming from. I don't like Xbox or the controller layout but I will admit it is very comfortable to hold.

mrsiggia So do I, Sony didnt change it much because people liked the design.

mrx same here

GrayWoIf I loved the GameCube controller. That was very comfortable to hold.

I really hated the button placement on the Xbox controller, even the S controller had the awkward black, white, start & select buttons. The analog sticks on the other hand were far better than the PS2 sticks imo, much more comfortable & precise.

136paul136 I completely agree. The original Duke was one of the worst controllers I have ever experienced. Even the European and Japanese S-version is horrible, with very strange button placements. It's also extremely bad for fighting games because some how with all the money Microsoft has they still don't know how to make a proper D-PAD. Good lucking trying to FADC in Street Fighter using Xbox D-PAD, lol.

To be fair, I think the PS2 controller is better than the Duke XBox controller....but I do like the XBox Controller S better than the PS2 controller.

PS2 was great, gamecube with its tiny disks was always strange because Nintendo was too cheap to licence DVD's from that strange copyright consortium. Never got into Xbox

Thanks for watching.

3,870 games total worldwide.

***** Also 750 PAL exclusives, most of which are crap.

I am also not saying that other 6th gen consoles had shitty games, because believe me they did have a handful of terrible games. But it was the PS2 that suffered a large selection of shitty games, which makes sense since every developer profited off the PS2's popularity by releasing whatever game they could make quick cash with. 

+almighty_luigi No, the Dreamcast had more shovelware games than the ps2

The ps2 is comparable to the NES IMO. People gloss over 1/3 of the PS2 library which had great exclusives but multiplats were better on the competition while the other 2/3rds of the library was shovelware . The NES suffers from the same issue. Blimey, How nostalgia blinds people. The SNES and mega drive are better consoles that will always be timeless unlike the PS2.

@Satoshi Matrix I agree completely.

MrMikehunt87 I'm not talking about the Duke, but rather the controller S originally designed for the Japanese market. I think that's one of the best controllers ever made, and I prefer it over the Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers.

all 3 consoles had completly different hardware, the ps2 had an emotion engine chip that had only 300 mhz and still could hold on to its competitor. Becuase it had a supirior graphicscard and its ram had hugher clockrate and was the fastest and had even more ram than the gamecube. The emotion chip could also kind of phsicis stuff etc. Yeah the gamecube got resi and xbox got doom but the ps2 got shadow of colosus and silent hill 3. Games like silent hill 3 and mgs 3 are exclusive for a reason because of its different architecture it wouldnt run on gamecube or the xbox

Aktuell Russland Yes, they all have different architecture, but that doesn't mean jack when it came to the possibility of enhanced, better ports on either GameCube or Xbox. There are many examples of games that were initially exclusive to one format and then ported to one or both of the other two, and speaking only of the Xbox, there are many examples of games that started off a PS2 exclusives and then were later ported to the Xbox with better graphics, better framerate and additional content. Metal Gear Solid 2, Fatal Frame, Tenchu Wrath of Heaven, Dead or Alive 2, Grand Theft Auto 3. The list goes on and on. An even bigger list than that are games that were developed for all three, or at least, PS2 and one of the other two at the same time. In almost every single case from any developer, the PS2 version was inferior by a good margin when compared to the version the developer was able to make on GameCube or Xbox. This is why I say I am disappointing whenever I learn that a great PS2 game is landlocked on the PS2 hardware and never had a chance to be superior on more powerful hardware. This is is why it's almost always a better idea to buy those HD collection versions of PS2 games on PS3 rather than play the original PS2 builds. The PS2 may have this legacy of having such an amazing and diverse game library, but to me and many others, games that were locked to the PS2 were doomed to suffer from the hardware itself, never having a chance to reach their true potential on either GameCube or Xbox.

Ya, he's gotta buffer his vids for stating his opinion so PS2 fanboys (like me) don't spam the comments section. Gamers, it's fair to say, are among the shittiest people when it comes to "criticism about things you may like". See gamergate.

I prefer the gc over the ps2 because I like their exclusives. As to your logic on cinematic and graphical capabilities, the Xbox is better handling these things. Meaning all around better gameplay quality. Even the gc does better hardware wise. And why would you play sixth(not fifth) gen games on hdtvs is to get great quality in the image quality and resolution. And playing on a crt gives you 480i which is a resolution

+who Knows esports Yeah the Cube's problem wasn't hardware it was Nintendo repeating their screw up with the N64 by using an inferior in terms of storage capacity media format compared to what their competitors used.

I must've too. I would run them so much they'd just burn out lol

That is one thing i hated about ps2's. Their lasers liked to burn out.

pichum4st3r all the fat models that I have are broken. Only one i have that works is the slim model

steve p AND SHITTTTY ANOLOG STICKS

*Analog

You are incredibility moronic.

steve p You must be moronic!

Idiot. -_-

Yeah, no, best selling yes, i would agree, but even if you are going by game library, the original PS3s were much MUCH better.

halo3odst yeah right

Replace console with PlayStation because it does not come even close to the GameCube, DS, and Xbox 360

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