PS2 is still console king

That's probably 'cause those poor saps w/there PSTribles are stuck wanting and waiting for S0NY to deliver the goods.

As a PSP Owner I kinda feel for 'em, that was my first clue to stick w/Microsoft and get the 360. My Stepbrother has a PSTribble and I have fun ragging him about it, I think he secretly hates the decision he made.

Well the PS3 certainly is no PS2 that's or sure!!

I really wonder were they got this horrible information. Obviously they only poled adults and likely only poor ones that only have one game for there system. I know lots of people with Wiis and several XBOX360.... and even a few PS3 and most of them still have their older systems... that they do not play... ever. The only people that play them now are people that can not afford anything else, mostly buy them used and do not buy new games. You can get a PS2 with an extra controller and 10 games off E-bay for $50. Can you get a Wii for that? NO. Why... because the Wii is what people want to play. My kids do not touch their XBOX or PS2 any more and I finally got rid of the NES and Sega. They play the Wii with the 17 games they have or their DS.

This is very untrue. I havent touched my ps2 since the 360 launch let anlone the ps3. I have a ps3 and an xbox 360 and i dont play old systems. Everyone i know is the same way as me so this little paper written here must be misinformed, done by poor adults who cant by a new system, crazy internet rumor to make people mad or is just a case of misinformation. No ps2 games got game of the year let alone the launch title like the 360 and ps3.

I believe that this poll was inherently flawed. I suspect that it was based on raw numbers rather than adjusted for the number of minutes played on a particular console. A more accurate way of measuring the actual use is to provide the statistics on how many minutes were played per 100 consoles. The interesting thing about statistics is that they can be manipulated to yield the desired results, thus providing headlines that are unexpected and drive higher readership. This is just crappy journalism that gets the fanboys all lathered up.

I can certainly afford all the current consoles and games and can confirm the PS2 and Gamecube were the most used consoles in our household.

The Wii is fun but we opted for an Eye Toy recently and have been playing PS2 EyeToy games quite a bit making the PS2 our most used console in the house. The gamecube second because they are in the kids rooms when I am watching football on the main TV. The Wii/360 is on the main TV also however the kids have more fun with the PS2 with EyeToy than the Wii. The 360 is mainly for me and lacks kids games. If there is a third I would put the PC gaming third followed by the original X-Box1.

It takes more than eye candy to make a game fun and worth playing.

This is interesting.

My 16 year old has an XBox360 and while he and my 9 year old play that more than the PS2, the PS2 still get's plenty of use. The original X Box we have is used more for playing DVD's than games. Don't have a PS3, as I'm not rich and have no interest in the Wii.

This is where Sony and Nintendo have failed in my eyes, PS3 fails in that it can't play PS2 games, if it did this article would be very different I reckon. On the other side of the bridge is the Wii, it managed to capture backwards compatibility perfectly yet the machine it was compatible with only had a low popularity as your article has shown. Lastly I will say that the other category got 16% because of retro consoles and hardcore gamers still have a SNES and a megadrive. Nintendo lost this backbone with the Gamecube, whereas Sony didn't.

PS3 - Expensive, but looks like the most powerful console out there. When you look the games you see that 360 ones are a bit better. Blue-ray doesn't help as much. Also, its sales aren't boosted by piracy.

Wii - Cheap and family friendly, but soon one member of this family will envy the neighbor's 360. "Fun" is not the only needed ingredient.

PS2 - Cheap console, cheap games, cheap accessories. Solid hardware. You can live with its not-so-beautiful games, and there's thousands of them, mostly good. And you have a good deal of piracy too.

360 - Expensive, expensive games, and the first impression is not so good. Plagued by hardware failures. But possibly the best performing hardware in market. When your Wii/PS3 friends begin visiting you every weekend, you know that you made a good choice.

The problem with this study is that the PS2 still has a much larger install base than any console on Earth. The Wii certainly sells more consoles now, but has a long way to go before it reaches the total number of sales achieved by the PS2 during its lifetime.

This study would only really work if the people who were polled are only the ones who own a PS2 as well as the current generation systems. It seems to me like it was done on a more general basis without determining what consoles people own in addition to which consoles they play.

People who have not yet bought one of the newer consoles and still own a PS2 would naturally answer that they play the PS2 as they don't have anything else yet to play with. Also, the fact remains that there are fewer games available for the current consoles and people may not have built up their libraries as much as what they might still have for the PS2.

I have the ps3 and plus every other system out there and me and the kids still have more dun on the SNES then any other system hands down. Sony big mistake not supporting ps2 games on the ps3 console considering there is such a slim choice of GOOD games out there for the system. I don't care if I have the money I am not putting out $60.00 on a pos game. What helped Sony on all its previous consoles was game selection and variety. Go into and used game store and you will find games you never knew existed on the ps2 and you could find games for $20.00 that were good. On the ps3 everything is a "blockbuster" and has to be $60.00 and above. I can see the power harnessed in the ps3 but either release something worth $60.00 dollars or go back to your roots and release everything and anything. I still find myself playing shadow of the colossus and god war on my ps2 I would be much happier with the $400.00 I spent on the ps3 if I could play those games on it. Sony get you head out. As far as the xbox IMO anything running on a windows os is failure waiting to happen. But it still as decent box and does currently have better game selection then ps3 and wii will that a whole other category.

There are plenty of PS2 consoles and games around. I still use my PS2 console. I can afford the PS3 or XBOX but I don't have all the time in the world to play games any more.
I still have 6-7 games I've not had time to play through.
The PS3 will be around for many years to come. When I have time to play more - I'll buy a PS3. Hopefully it will be cheaper and smaller by then as well.
They still sell new PS2 consoles!!!
Many families buy a PS3 for the main TV in the living room, and give the kids a PS2 each - to play in their rooms.
If the PS3 was PS2 compatible I would most likely have bought it by now.
But a new smaller PS3 is maybe worth waiting for as well. I am still designing my game room at the moment. Where the kids have no access :-)

The PS4 will probably not come before 2012-2014 anyway? A PS3 for $200 would suit me fine. I'd rather spent my money on the games. I have about 25 games for the PS2.

The PS3 DOES play PS2 games!!! If you bought the more expensive version of it that is. It is so annoying reading that!! YOU PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHAT THE @#$% YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!! And why is it people FAIL TO COMPREHEND the advantages of a PS3???? YOU GET A FREAKING BLU-RAY PLAYER and you can use it to play STREAMING MEDIA (PICTURES, VIDEOS, MUSIC) off of your network. Oh yeah, thats right, people don't really f***ing understand the benefits of technology cuz they're too stupid to even know how to work their DVRs. They can barely surf the "interwebs".

Only the 60gb version. Dimwit.