Plenty of games are still coming out for the PS2 as Sony capitalizes on its leadership position as the company with the largest number of games consoles out there. This, of course, helps the PSP too, which has been compared to a PS2 shrunken to fit into the confines of the cool PSP casing.

Even the rumoured PSP ‘2’ is likely to still sport the same processing power so the same library of games is available for both the PSP and the PSP ‘2’, with the major differences slated to be the inclusion of a 60Gb hard drive, with the possibility of built-in web cams, GPS positioning and possibly telephony features included as well.

So there’s much life left in the PS2 architecture, and Sony no doubt wants to squeeze out every drop of profit to make up for the loss making PS3, the Blu-ray technology and of course the massively expensive battery catastrophe of 2006 that saw huge recalls but only a handful of actual exploded batteries.

We’ll no doubt see plenty of PS3 games appear this year that really start to take advantage of the PS3’s power, and this will have an effect of the popularity of the PS2, especially as the price of the PS3 falls to more realistic levels. It is, after all, only to be expected that a games console will drop in price. They always have in the past, and there’s no reason to suspect they won’t again in the future.

Especially if the PS3 doesn’t start making some serious inroads into the number of Wii’s and Xbox 360’s sold. But with the PS2 available for less than AUD A$200, and not much more than US $100, for now, it’s the console that everyone has to beat. Even Sony, as they profit from the continuing success that is the Playstation 2.
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