Yep, mine too when I was a kid. We wanted a PS2 and parents wanted a DVD player. Mom went to the store and ended up buying the PS2 because it was cheaper and covered everything we wanted.
@@ggggggg681 9? I was 8 in 2000 when my parents bought me a ps2 for Christmas with tekken tag tournament and Time splitters was a great time :D plus i could still play all my ps1 games and watch movies 😆
@@HollowRickbro I love time splitters my dad was born early to mid eighty's and he had a PS2 he gave it to me time splitters is one of my favorite games on it right next to resident evil 4
DVD players became a rounder under 100 bucks in the year 2000 soooooo your kinda wrong there my man, do your research First they use to in the 90s but once 2000 hit it changed take a look
@@zelo4744 more like after the PlayStation 2 became successful even after that they were still expensive, I don't know where the hell you're getting $100 DVD player from back in 2000 unless it's some shady back alley van that you get ripped off from or they're stolen.
My first "adult" purchase was a PS2 slim and Kingdom Hearts when I was 7. I did chores and yard work for eight months to save up for it and even though it's dead, I still have it🥺
my old ps2 cords were slightly bent so we had a little wooden block holding the cables in place and i vividly remember that bright orange block holding the things in place and when you turned it on and realized the block wad like a millimeter in the wrong place it made the ps2 startup but like twice as loud and it busted our speakers once LMFAO edit: this is such an oddly specific story i just realized no one is gonna get what i’m saying but basically
@@january._. no worries. Oddly specific stories are my modus operandi of my life. I don't entirely relate to an orange block, however, I do know what you mean about PS1 & PS2 controller cords getting that weird kink in them that couldn't get untangled. It was sooooo annoying.
I'm a 90s baby and I love the fact that I grew up playing all these systems and got to experience the improving of graphics and stuff. Ps2 had so many good memories!!
you missed out on the real fun if watching things advance is of interest to you. Watching things go from atari 2600 to nes to Amiga (released in '85 and on par with megadrive and snes, so they werent really anything fancy for the time,... kind of late to the party really, albeit successful) to ps1/saturn were all the real jumps. Saw things that had never been done. From ps2 onwards everything was just a gradual evolution. Nothing really new.
@@beezle1976 I remember being five-six years old when Nintendo 64 came out and I had went from playing Sega Genesis to that and my mind was blown seeing the 3D graphics at that time! Holy moly!! 😆
@@beezle1976 im a 90s baby too but i was lucky to grow up with the nintendo first missed atari and sega xbox consoles but played abit of xbox360. I played none of the latest consoles as well.
I remember when the PS3 came out and it was crazy expensive but still justifiable when compared to how much Blu-ray players were selling for back then.
There wasn't a single thing to justify the price of that console when it released. Sony blundered the release of the ps3 and making it like 700$ was one of the blunders for sure
Yep! That was one of the main reasons I got a PS3 and even better if you had the fat piano black version that played both PS2 & PS1 games on top of the rest. Combine that with a PS5 and you’ve got the ultimate gaming/media combo
Yeah it's because Sony let any old company produce ps2s so there was enough for the launch not taking into account of some of the factorys not caring about quality
@@Burog1 most gaming consoles are sold for little to no profit. They make their money on the back end. From games and subscriptions. Even more so now with so many downloading games directly to their consoles.
I'm going to be a nerd but... when the Gamecube came out 1.5 years after the PS2, most people already had a DVD player or PS2 already. And DVD players had dropped in prices with many $100-$200 players being available. Basically, the DVD player was a huge selling point when the PS2 first came out but less so when the Gamecube came out.
@@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000in what way? I've never used a ps2 so i'm just curious, but i know the gamecube has a really good 480p signal, especially for the time
It absolutely CAN play DVD's. Only just 1.4Gb of them. ;-) GC's can play Xvid's too if hacked. I watched American Beauty on my GC with a buddy back in the day.
@@shomoy7396 Movie lovers buy blu ray discs because they arent compressed like streaming services and have higher sound quality and they also look cool on a shelf
And get this, you could walk right into a store any time you want and just buy one. No scalpers, lotteries, signing up for alerts, clicking press & hold buttons for 15 minutes, waiting in virtual lines. Ahh the good ol' days
That's what the analog/digital button was for, switching between on/off buttons and pressure sensitivity. Did ya'll know that if you use a ps2 controller on a ps1, the pressure sensitivity does work on some games!
This even kind of applies today with the PS5 for 4K discs. $500 retail for a PS5 that plays PS4 games, 4K blu ray, and PS5 games vs a $300 4K disc player (although it looks better on a dedicated 4K player). Same with the PS3 and especially the fat piano black PS3 that played PS1/2. That + the PS5 and it’s the ultimate gaming/media combo
Well PlayStation actually loses money on their consoles. But that’s the point because now you have a ps5 that has ps5 controller and games for that ps5 so in the long run Sony makes its money on everything but the console. Very smart marketing strategy
Even truer to the Xbox One S which you can gdt for like 100$ used and it plays 4K blurays :P (Though you can get a LibreDrive for PC for 50$ and use MakeMKV)
@@itsTyrion Ya, I'm not arguing against PS. I'm just saying when PS2 implemented Blue Ray and DVD player, it was a game changer. Not only did Xbox do the same shortly after, but it surged sales for DVD players too.
@@GALLXEY_LOVER yes, it was the same case with the PS3. A PS3 launch model costed around 599 Dollars, while a dedicated blue-ray player costed something around the order of thousands.
Narrr by the time the ps2 came out stores were selling cheap crap dvd players for like $30.. ...people see a vid on youtube and all of a sudden suffer from memory loss..
@@letsbehonest4221 i kinda get where you were coming from, but if we are to count in craigslists of 2nd hand Markets, we could also get PS2s for 30 Dollars. In 2000, the cheapest DVD Players were around 300 Dollars, going out in the range of 1200 to 2000 Dollars, to it really depends on what You are looking for, since yes, some DVD players were available for cheap, but were they massively available for every one to purchase? No, i dont think so. Also, LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!!
@@yurisv7315 the cheapest dvd players definitely wernt 300...lol.. .. you serious just said the opposite of what i just said.. ...heck even those little dvd player had been selling for $30 brand new ew at kmart by then...
Sure, that contributed, but the reason in the video was a major contribution as well, the only reason I ever (and a lot of people around me) had access to a PS2 was the reason in the video, it was an objectively better value than what was available from competitors at the time. Sony ran with this up until late PS3, marketing their consoles at "It does DVD, Blu ray, games, etc" in advertising. It was usually an objectively better value to buy a PS3 than another system, AND a Blu Ray player. In a lot of homes, these products were multimedia devices that had the ability to play video games, and in many homes still are.
I was there gandalf, all those years. I remember that this was the main reason for the PS2. PlayStation tried the same thing with the PS3, and it worked but not at the same scale. It was to damn expensive.
I was 14 in 2001, and my parents got us a PS2 for $249.99. I'll never forget that experience was like opening a new PS5 today's time. I'm a 35 yr old now without a 2nd thought. I got them a 4k Oled TV because I remember the sacrifices parent's made us then kids 😅😂
I still own mine from 2000. Still works only thing is that the sound isn’t the best anymore but after 22 years that being it’s only problem is pretty dope.
@@redey1290 nope still reads them all! Unless the disc’s themselves are scratched up. But I can still play a pretty beat up demo from 2002 on it. Only sound has *seen* better days.
I love wii, don’t you love wii? Everyone should have a taste of wii in their life every now and then. I bet you my wii performs better than your wii. Want to try out my wii? Wii wii wii wii wiii
PS2 graphics were ahead of their time... when madden first came out and you would slow mo a replay..you could see the seems on the football.. this was mind blowing from what we were used to on ps1 madden
PS3 is still to this day a highly respected bluray player. I've seen demo rooms using one as their player. And at the time of release it was the same case where a decent dedicated bluray player was more than a PS3. Sony knew exactly what they were doing.
I had the original xbox with the dongle that was 30 bucks. Not to mention the game titles were soooooooo much better. Even now playstation games as a whole are meh.
My dad who has never touched a video game bought a ps3 for the DVD player but when me and my brother were old enough we had a gaming console sitting right there
@@dogwater1089 Mine was after about 4 years of use, then I cleaned it out and replaced the old cheap thermal paste with graphite foil and replaced the cheap fan for one with more blades, it's been super quite ever since.
I'm currently looking at soft modding mine so I can save and play games from a HDD. Waiting on mine to show up so I can see what model (fat) so I know what I need
@@Buckincrazy I'm talking initial release dates here not us and Europe only release dates. Ps2 initially launched in March 2000. It was October for us and europe
I just got a PS2 as well. Time to relive my 2002 childhood era of the PS2 I am so glad that I got it. It is the PS2 slim model I am missing just the PS2 memory card
Definitely a big contributor but not the only one. At this point PlayStation was a widely beloved brand so there was a ton of hype surrounding the console. It being able to be a DVD player at the same price and a DVD player was just icing on the cake
Same reason my family got a PS3. I was born in 03' but I grew up playing my dad's old N64 and OG Xbox, then in like 09'-10' we got a PS3 as an all in one thing as a gift. Ended up getting buying a second one just for me to play games on and I still have both of them working to this day.
Born in '95 I remember the ps2 being able to watch DVDs was huge. But the backwards compatibility is what sticks with me because I was pissed that I couldn't play ps3 games on my PS4
I had the ps2 and og xbox at the time. For sum reason our PS2 had hard times reading DVD format discs but can play any game correctly. So we used our OG Xbox for games/DVDs. It was so cool at the time. We had like one dvd player but after the xbox and PS2, we preferred the consoles
remember how PS1 you put a CD in and hit select and all these colors popped up you could change colors and the way the lines moved, I wish PS 2 and PS 3 did that too
The original Xbox also played dvds… albeit you have to use the sensor and remote. In fact arguably it was better in terms of other features as well. For example ripping music cds to the hard drive and certain games allowed that music to be played in game.
Oh man I remember growing up with a PS2. I loved playing Spyro and DragonBall. I also remember my older sisters raging at Final Fantasy 10 and Kingdom Hearts. I also remember playing Lego Star Wars with my old friend. Good times.
As a Dreamcast owner who worked at bestbuy during this period.. i tried my hardest to steer customers towards the Dreamcast but that DVD player in the ps2 was impossible for many customers to ignore. RIP SEGA!!
You forget the old dvd/ blu-ray player full surround system plug ins in the back. I still use one since it has optical for sound and sounds better than any build in tv speakers so I just have the optical going to my TV so all my consoles and TV sticks use it for sound.
The PlayStation1 was a huge success so when they announced a new consol that could play all your old ps1 games and the new ones which were a huge advancement in technology and play fancy new dvds it was a no brainer
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This was the EXACT conversation my mom had with the circuit city salesman when it came out. crazy
I actually beleave you. Most kids who say this are like 9 years old.
Yep, mine too when I was a kid. We wanted a PS2 and parents wanted a DVD player. Mom went to the store and ended up buying the PS2 because it was cheaper and covered everything we wanted.
Circuit city....haven't heard that name in a long time. Was right next to a radio shack, pic n save and a blockbuster.
@@ggggggg681 9? I was 8 in 2000 when my parents bought me a ps2 for Christmas with tekken tag tournament and Time splitters was a great time :D plus i could still play all my ps1 games and watch movies 😆
@@HollowRickbro I love time splitters my dad was born early to mid eighty's and he had a PS2 he gave it to me time splitters is one of my favorite games on it right next to resident evil 4
More like, the PS2 was $300 and a normal dvd player was likd $500
DVD players became a rounder under 100 bucks in the year 2000 soooooo your kinda wrong there my man, do your research First they use to in the 90s but once 2000 hit it changed take a look
@@zelo4744 more like after the PlayStation 2 became successful even after that they were still expensive, I don't know where the hell you're getting $100 DVD player from back in 2000 unless it's some shady back alley van that you get ripped off from or they're stolen.
@@zelo4744 that happened after the ps2 came out and annihilated the competing DVD players and they had no choice but to lower prices
@@zelo4744 Well not in my country. Ps2 almost always were the best choice during its lifetime
In 2002 a brand name dvd player was more than $700
My first "adult" purchase was a PS2 slim and Kingdom Hearts when I was 7. I did chores and yard work for eight months to save up for it and even though it's dead, I still have it🥺
My playstation from 2004 still works! I was able to play Ace Combat 5 and Gran Turismo 4 on it!
Whats wrong with it? Did you try to fix it
What’s the issue? I recently took apart my PS3 and fixed an issue with the optical drive, i might be able to help
That's so cool my first adult purchase was FFXI for PC I worked with my Dad doing contractor work at 11
Bring it back to life!!! Bring back those good memories
The ps2 was amazing until you forgot to turn the TV volume down when you restarted it.
PTSD flashbacks
my old ps2 cords were slightly bent so we had a little wooden block holding the cables in place and i vividly remember that bright orange block holding the things in place and when you turned it on and realized the block wad like a millimeter in the wrong place it made the ps2 startup but like twice as loud and it busted our speakers once LMFAO
edit: this is such an oddly specific story i just realized no one is gonna get what i’m saying but basically
@@january._. no worries. Oddly specific stories are my modus operandi of my life. I don't entirely relate to an orange block, however, I do know what you mean about PS1 & PS2 controller cords getting that weird kink in them that couldn't get untangled. It was sooooo annoying.
Hahaha. This exactly!
@@january._. yytdty
I'm a 90s baby and I love the fact that I grew up playing all these systems and got to experience the improving of graphics and stuff. Ps2 had so many good memories!!
you missed out on the real fun if watching things advance is of interest to you.
Watching things go from atari 2600 to nes to Amiga (released in '85 and on par with megadrive and snes, so they werent really anything fancy for the time,... kind of late to the party really, albeit successful) to ps1/saturn were all the real jumps.
Saw things that had never been done.
From ps2 onwards everything was just a gradual evolution. Nothing really new.
@@beezle1976 I remember being five-six years old when Nintendo 64 came out and I had went from playing Sega Genesis to that and my mind was blown seeing the 3D graphics at that time! Holy moly!! 😆
@@beezle1976 im a 90s baby too but i was lucky to grow up with the nintendo first missed atari and sega xbox consoles but played abit of xbox360. I played none of the latest consoles as well.
I was born in 79 so I’ve seen every console come out from the nes to the ps5
I remember when the PS3 came out and it was crazy expensive but still justifiable when compared to how much Blu-ray players were selling for back then.
$600 at launch. Compared to the $250 for the Wii and about $300 for a 360
Still have my ps3 60gb launch day still works to this day.
There wasn't a single thing to justify the price of that console when it released. Sony blundered the release of the ps3 and making it like 700$ was one of the blunders for sure
@@theshield1613 noice... What is your routine for maintaining it for so long.
Yep! That was one of the main reasons I got a PS3 and even better if you had the fat piano black version that played both PS2 & PS1 games on top of the rest. Combine that with a PS5 and you’ve got the ultimate gaming/media combo
I bought 3 of them cause they quit reading disks 😂
Ding ding! Someone else finally remembers the launch ps2 had terrible lasers that died on everyone.
The ps3 did the same or it got jamed
Honestly the fixes were easy though
My original Xbox’s disk tray won’t open lol
Yeah it's because Sony let any old company produce ps2s so there was enough for the launch not taking into account of some of the factorys not caring about quality
That’s literally why I bought my PS3. I wanted a blue ray player and the PS3 was about the same price. 😃
Same lol
Crazy how they actually lost money on the first ps3 model release, system cost something like 800$ to make and they sold it for 600$.
@@Burog1 most gaming consoles are sold for little to no profit. They make their money on the back end. From games and subscriptions. Even more so now with so many downloading games directly to their consoles.
@@nocturnechanson yup first model was the best though after that one they started going downhill, other than adding more gigabyte storage for cheaper.
Ditto. I had movies before I bought any games.
Back in the day when Salespeople were honest and gave you right information, God I miss them.
When he picked up the GameCube and said can this do it too I cried 😂
Nope only the PS2 can play movies 😆🤣
Well some GameCubes can play dvd’s
It technically can with a case mod I did it 🤷♂️
I'm going to be a nerd but... when the Gamecube came out 1.5 years after the PS2, most people already had a DVD player or PS2 already. And DVD players had dropped in prices with many $100-$200 players being available.
Basically, the DVD player was a huge selling point when the PS2 first came out but less so when the Gamecube came out.
Love how there’s no punchline lol
Just an educational video
Meme brain
The punchline is, other companies couldn't keep up.
it's not even... it's not even supposed to be a joke what are you in about?
Because it’s not a joke
Man, the PS2 holds a special place in my heart.
Me too Night Silent me too…
Bruh playstation was so lit we had three bookshelves full of games the library was nuts
I pirated everything
@@maxderholzrusse7301 yeah? I bet you also cross the road without looking both ways...
tsk, criminals these days I tell ya.
@@maxderholzrusse7301 *You wouldn't download a car*
@@ju2tunknown laughs in tesla
@@attari56 laughs in suv because I’m grateful.
The PS2 tecnology was so advanced during his time.
No xbox was
@@justthisguy1948 xbox only had handful of exclusives tho
The only probelm, the image quality isnt as good like the GameCube or the Xbox or the Dreamcast
Nope dreamcast and xbox!
@@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000in what way? I've never used a ps2 so i'm just curious, but i know the gamecube has a really good 480p signal, especially for the time
I remember we had a dvd player but it ended up having reading problems. The PS2 never let us down and always played the movies smoothly.
We had the PS2 TV remote with the Sony TV and that was the family DVD player
I still have my remote for my ps2
My only console besides PC is a PS2 - sitting 3 ft from it right now, lol.
If only the GameCube could play DVD’s, I would’ve gotten a GameCube instead of a PS2, but Sony’s exclusive library also kept me with PlayStation
You do know there’s another version of the gamecube that can play dvds
@@colamations5066 yeah but ps2 was actually affordable and easily accessible
Nintendo shot themselves in the foot by having the gamecube only compatible with Mini-DVDs...
@@colamations5066 True, the Panasonic Q could play DVD’s and GameCube games, but it only came out in Japan and it was way too expensive
It absolutely CAN play DVD's.
Only just 1.4Gb of them. ;-)
GC's can play Xvid's too if hacked. I watched American Beauty on my GC with a buddy back in the day.
This philosophy holds true today even. I really appreciate my ps5 being able to play 4k blu rays, beats paying 300$ for a player
I agree on half of what you said because I wish I had one 😞
You still buy movie discs ?
@@shomoy7396 Movie lovers buy blu ray discs because they arent compressed like streaming services and have higher sound quality and they also look cool on a shelf
Only reason why I keep my Xbox One X...
@@shomoy7396 The quality is VASTLY superior.
So much so that I'd rather watch a 1080P Blu Ray over a 4K Netflix copy, bar none.
This really was a game changer. Just the fact that you basically got a DVD player and Game console for 150 each was too good to pass up.
And get this, you could walk right into a store any time you want and just buy one. No scalpers, lotteries, signing up for alerts, clicking press & hold buttons for 15 minutes, waiting in virtual lines. Ahh the good ol' days
The ps2 has pressure sensitivity in the buttons too. (warning: it needs to be a specific ps2 controller i guess)
PS2 and PS3 has pressure sensitive buttons
That's what the analog/digital button was for, switching between on/off buttons and pressure sensitivity. Did ya'll know that if you use a ps2 controller on a ps1, the pressure sensitivity does work on some games!
@@Ieatpeople2 WHAT
Nope, I probed it and can be another generic emulator of a ps2 controller. Also, this emulators (and the sensibility) can work in another devices
@@Ieatpeople2 u feel that is fake, I can still use the button sensibility even when I have pressed the analog
This even kind of applies today with the PS5 for 4K discs. $500 retail for a PS5 that plays PS4 games, 4K blu ray, and PS5 games vs a $300 4K disc player (although it looks better on a dedicated 4K player). Same with the PS3 and especially the fat piano black PS3 that played PS1/2. That + the PS5 and it’s the ultimate gaming/media combo
Lol 500 dollars they said, affordable they said
An extra 500 to the 500 later
Well PlayStation actually loses money on their consoles. But that’s the point because now you have a ps5 that has ps5 controller and games for that ps5 so in the long run Sony makes its money on everything but the console. Very smart marketing strategy
The ultimate gaming/media combo is called PC.
You are right about the rest tho.
Even truer to the Xbox One S which you can gdt for like 100$ used and it plays 4K blurays :P (Though you can get a LibreDrive for PC for 50$ and use MakeMKV)
And you can access the internet on ps2, plus plays your music CD’s
Most consoles played cds, even the original Xbox did that. Movies and blue ray were ground breaking for PS.
@@SauceOnChickenBall even the PS1 did that IIRC
@@itsTyrion Ya, I'm not arguing against PS. I'm just saying when PS2 implemented Blue Ray and DVD player, it was a game changer.
Not only did Xbox do the same shortly after, but it surged sales for DVD players too.
@@itsTyrion yeah they were used for that
@@SauceOnChickenBall ps2 did DVD ps3 did Blu-ray I believe
This makes so much SENSE!!!! Never thought of that
We will never have it so good ever again!
Also the fact that most DVD Players back then made you break the bank if you Wanted to buy a new one, the only exception being the PS2.
Wasn’t that the case with Blu-ray too
@@GALLXEY_LOVER yes, it was the same case with the PS3. A PS3 launch model costed around 599 Dollars, while a dedicated blue-ray player costed something around the order of thousands.
Narrr by the time the ps2 came out stores were selling cheap crap dvd players for like $30..
...people see a vid on youtube and all of a sudden suffer from memory loss..
@@letsbehonest4221 i kinda get where you were coming from, but if we are to count in craigslists of 2nd hand Markets, we could also get PS2s for 30 Dollars. In 2000, the cheapest DVD Players were around 300 Dollars, going out in the range of 1200 to 2000 Dollars, to it really depends on what You are looking for, since yes, some DVD players were available for cheap, but were they massively available for every one to purchase? No, i dont think so. Also, LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!!
@@yurisv7315 the cheapest dvd players definitely wernt 300...lol.. .. you serious just said the opposite of what i just said..
...heck even those little dvd player had been selling for $30 brand new ew at kmart by then...
In reality, people knew what a playstation was. And when they saw they made a 2, the audience went wild
"Cough ps5 cough"
Is that how u spell that?
@@onlygaming69 ??
@@onlygaming69 ??
Sure, that contributed, but the reason in the video was a major contribution as well, the only reason I ever (and a lot of people around me) had access to a PS2 was the reason in the video, it was an objectively better value than what was available from competitors at the time.
Sony ran with this up until late PS3, marketing their consoles at "It does DVD, Blu ray, games, etc" in advertising. It was usually an objectively better value to buy a PS3 than another system, AND a Blu Ray player.
In a lot of homes, these products were multimedia devices that had the ability to play video games, and in many homes still are.
Not only that, many dvd players were expensive at the time
I was there gandalf, all those years. I remember that this was the main reason for the PS2. PlayStation tried the same thing with the PS3, and it worked but not at the same scale. It was to damn expensive.
Watching movies and listening to movies on the ps2 /ps3 was the best memories ever ❤
It’s disturbing that I remember this like it was yesterday. Man I’m old
I was 14 in 2001, and my parents got us a PS2 for $249.99. I'll never forget that experience was like opening a new PS5 today's time.
I'm a 35 yr old now without a 2nd thought. I got them a 4k Oled TV because I remember the sacrifices parent's made us then kids 😅😂
I still own mine from 2000. Still works only thing is that the sound isn’t the best anymore but after 22 years that being it’s only problem is pretty dope.
Any issues with reading discs after all that time?
@@redey1290 nope still reads them all! Unless the disc’s themselves are scratched up. But I can still play a pretty beat up demo from 2002 on it. Only sound has *seen* better days.
Mine still runs like a charm! Sound reading and all!
Get this man an oscar
The original xbox can play movies though all you need is a little thing that plugs into the controller port
Or you can play movies on modden Xbox without this.
It just came perfectly when dvds were new
Yeah I remember my family watching movies on it while on vacation
Ah yes dvds I remember when people used those
Lots of people still prefer to own physical media.
Exactly.. but I still always loved Nintendo too
Same the GameCube is the best
I love wii, don’t you love wii? Everyone should have a taste of wii in their life every now and then. I bet you my wii performs better than your wii. Want to try out my wii? Wii wii wii wii wiii
PS2 graphics were ahead of their time... when madden first came out and you would slow mo a replay..you could see the seems on the football.. this was mind blowing from what we were used to on ps1 madden
PS3 is still to this day a highly respected bluray player. I've seen demo rooms using one as their player. And at the time of release it was the same case where a decent dedicated bluray player was more than a PS3. Sony knew exactly what they were doing.
Oh you know. The logo flips when you put it that way
"Yes, can you help me find an acting coach? Please?"
Literally
Meanwhile the Xbox 360 comes out 4 years later “ DANG IT!”
The original Xbox could play DVD disc's and you could rip your audio cds to the system since it had an internal hard drive
@@alexmulder1145 yeah but you still needed to buy the remote with the dongle. Adding to the price while already being more expensive than the PS2.
I had the original xbox with the dongle that was 30 bucks. Not to mention the game titles were soooooooo much better. Even now playstation games as a whole are meh.
@@Dirtilike1 what playstation games are '''''''meh'''''''''
@@Dirtilike1 all Xbox has is halo and Forza, they are not better than PlayStation,
Great sales pitch my goodness. Just learned more about sales from this clip
My dad who has never touched a video game bought a ps3 for the DVD player but when me and my brother were old enough we had a gaming console sitting right there
"Ps WaS a Cd PlAyEr"
"Ps2 WaS a DvD pLaYeR"
"Ps3 WaS a BlU rAy PlAyEr"
"The ps4 was a jet engine 💀"
@@dogwater1089
Mine was after about 4 years of use, then I cleaned it out and replaced the old cheap thermal paste with graphite foil and replaced the cheap fan for one with more blades, it's been super quite ever since.
@@dogwater1089 stop smoking...
@@dogwater1089 My slim was, my pro isn't.
Yeah pretty much. I used the PS2 for mostly movies.
I miss my ps2. As soon as it stopped reading my disks. my days of fun were over
Buy another they are cheap!
I'm currently looking at soft modding mine so I can save and play games from a HDD. Waiting on mine to show up so I can see what model (fat) so I know what I need
Then you realize that you need a memory card and have to leave the console on for days
The Xbox required a little infrared reciever in one of the controller ports to use the DVD feature on the OG Xbox...
One of my fav games I love playing on Ps2 is either Guitar hero 1 to 3 or San Andreas
I rarely game anymore, but I still use my old ps2 as a dvd player. Bought it 17 years ago and it still works great
I know some games seemed good and we're but most were uh..
Interesting to say the least...
WDYM? PS2 had 100+ near "Flawless" titles RPGs, Hack-N-Slash (Devil May Cry, God of War), etc
That's goes for every game system, just look at the switch library for example
Looks at my original Xbox playing DVD movies… (lol nope only the PS2 plays movies)
That's a year and a half of ps2 building it's rep before xbox released
@@PremixedDoge Xbox released 13 months after PS2, not a year and a half.
Further more the codec in the Xbox was actually better for DVD playback.
@@Buckincrazy I'm talking initial release dates here not us and Europe only release dates. Ps2 initially launched in March 2000. It was October for us and europe
@@PremixedDoge Still doesn't change the fact that the Xbox did indeed play DVD movies lol.
@@Buckincrazy back to the initial comment
Well that and star ocean: till the end of the
I just got a PS2 as well. Time to relive my 2002 childhood era of the PS2 I am so glad that I got it. It is the PS2 slim model I am missing just the PS2 memory card
Definitely a big contributor but not the only one. At this point PlayStation was a widely beloved brand so there was a ton of hype surrounding the console. It being able to be a DVD player at the same price and a DVD player was just icing on the cake
These aint popped up 4 ages love these shorts
My mom likes dvd and the ps2 was her pick and gave it to me, love you mom.
Bruh the late 90s early 2000s were the best of times
I was born in 2007 but I grew up with the ps2, PSP, and the NES and It was amazing
Same reason my family got a PS3. I was born in 03' but I grew up playing my dad's old N64 and OG Xbox, then in like 09'-10' we got a PS3 as an all in one thing as a gift. Ended up getting buying a second one just for me to play games on and I still have both of them working to this day.
That Zelda hat was amazing 🤩
Ps2 was crazy back in the day. Everyone I know had one. There are so many great games, too.
I remember playing Stewart little movie in the ps2 Ahhh memories
Didn't know how it was working
😅😂 you had me rollin this exactly how it was ....this why regular dvds got bumped out of the stores singal handedly...
Born in '95 I remember the ps2 being able to watch DVDs was huge. But the backwards compatibility is what sticks with me because I was pissed that I couldn't play ps3 games on my PS4
So accurate. I worked at Best buy during the early Blu-ray days, I sold so many PS3s to Elderly couples lol
This video is so nostalgic it even has the max resolution available back then.
Don’t forget the PS2 also works as a CD player
"The gamecube can't play movies"
*Sands down disc to fit in gamecube*
I had the ps2 and og xbox at the time. For sum reason our PS2 had hard times reading DVD format discs but can play any game correctly. So we used our OG Xbox for games/DVDs. It was so cool at the time. We had like one dvd player but after the xbox and PS2, we preferred the consoles
Still loved that GameCube though. Windwaker was amazing.
It was also the best DVD player. The fast components inside meant the read time of disks were muuuuuch faster.
So true, but the same thing also happened with the PS3 as a Blu-ray player.
Remember seeing the PS2 standing up tall like that for the first time😅 it really made it stand out from the other consoles.
So true the amount of people I knew using those as dvd players
remember how PS1 you put a CD in and hit select and all these colors popped up you could change colors and the way the lines moved, I wish PS 2 and PS 3 did that too
One of the reasons I bought it, DVD players were mad expensive back then.
That was great. I bought it for the games of course but the DVD player was nice.
And music CD’s. Legendary!
The original Xbox also played dvds… albeit you have to use the sensor and remote. In fact arguably it was better in terms of other features as well. For example ripping music cds to the hard drive and certain games allowed that music to be played in game.
I Wanna go back to those days.
Actually you could play dvds on the og xbox but you needed the remote accersory
Oh man I remember growing up with a PS2. I loved playing Spyro and DragonBall. I also remember my older sisters raging at Final Fantasy 10 and Kingdom Hearts. I also remember playing Lego Star Wars with my old friend. Good times.
Pretty Much……………
It also KILLED the Dreamcast and SEGA even on paper, before it’s release.
Bro this guys whole channel is making ads for old consoles 💀
As a Dreamcast owner who worked at bestbuy during this period.. i tried my hardest to steer customers towards the Dreamcast but that DVD player in the ps2 was impossible for many customers to ignore. RIP SEGA!!
Dreamcast4life!!
Real ogs knew that DVD players coated like 1k ps2 was a steal
This is so true, I loved playing games in the PS2 console and being able to pop in a movie disk to enjoy and relax afterwards.
OG Xbox could play DVD’s as well if you had the accessory
I just got a ps2 for Christmas and this is how I was when I played bully and gta vice city 😊
Only ppl who never own a saturn was impressed by a ps2 that played movies.
When the DVD player first dropped it was litterally $1000
Same happened at ps3 launch back in 07, except Blu-rays' were quite fewer popular than DVD
Was even better in that golden period of ps2’s being only £50 used but a new DVD player costing £100
When Blu Ray players came out and were like 1k+. What a time to be alive.
DVD players were way more expensive. That’s why the PS2 sold so well 👍🏽
You forget the old dvd/ blu-ray player full surround system plug ins in the back. I still use one since it has optical for sound and sounds better than any build in tv speakers so I just have the optical going to my TV so all my consoles and TV sticks use it for sound.
Dude looks like Caillou but he lived
PS2 was my first dvd player, even got the remote for it
The PlayStation1 was a huge success so when they announced a new consol that could play all your old ps1 games and the new ones which were a huge advancement in technology and play fancy new dvds it was a no brainer