User blog comment:Knuckleschaotix/R.I.P. PS2/@comment-1045899-20111001093557

I'll be honest. About time.

The PS2 itself was quite a poor console, and I do admire that Sony had actually managed to make it last over a decade, and had become iconic. But the console was easily the worst of it's generation (I believe even the Dreamcast had better specs, though don't quote me on that), it only got it's position in the 6th gen purely because of the DVD drive and cheapness. I think if Sony never added the DVD drive it would have been gone a long time ago. That and bad decisions by both SEGA (Obviously) and Nintendo (They weren't too keen on giving away the NGC's dev kit).