Sony lightens PS2 components by almost a third
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted July 8th 2007 3:07PM
posted July 8th 2007 3:07PM
Unlike Microsoft, which dropped the original Xbox in favor of the Xbox 360 in manner similar to Paris Hilton dropping her old cellphone, Sony has continued to maintain the PlayStation 2. Somehow, Sony has managed to make a new iteration of the PS2 that decreases the console's weight by almost a third: they've trimmed the console itself down to 600 grams from 900 grams, and the power adapter to 250 grams from 350 grams. The external design of the console is unchanged, but the lower weight and the new components should decrease production and shipping costs. Not bad for an old console that continues to sell well (and sell for more than the value of its components, at that).
"and sell for more than the value of its components, at that".
Yeah, cause it's so dang easy to build your own ps2 using off the shelf parts. And the idea of a company selling hardware to make a profit? Bizarre.
It's somewhat disingenuous to say that Microsoft dropped the Xbox "like a hot potato". They didn't exactly have any choice. When they got into a pissing match with NVidia over the graphics processing unit then gave the 360 contract to ATI, NVidia turned around and killed future production on the Xbox GPU.
You can't keep making a console without a Graphics Processing Unit. So the Xbox was shelved and 360 production ramped up.
Yeah but did they have to stop making the controllers as well. It's almost impossible to find a new controller s.