Ben D.

dillon: I certainly agree the PS2 was much better than the Xbox. Here's how I look at it-

1. Reliability. Both were terrible at launch, yes, but the PS2 lasted me five years and I had to replace the Xbox three times in that same span of time. My friends were all the same way. One PS2, multiple Xboxes. Furthermore, I never even knew what a "DRE" was until I got an Xbox. After 6+ years with the PS2, I never saw that message ONCE. I saw it like 20% of the time I'd put a game into the Xbox.

2. More genres represented with quality titles. If you wanted a strategy game, the Xbox gave you nil while PS2 gave you Dynasty Tactics, Ring of Red, Front Mission 4, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Kessen series, Disgaea, Phantom Brave, etc, etc, etc. The Xbox had crappy platformers while the PS2 had the two best series in the industry in Ratchet and Clank and Jak, not to mention the lesser-known yet still well-received titles like Sly Cooper, Kya: Dark Lineage, Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, etc. If you wanted a Japanese RPG, you were SOL with the Xbox, and we all know how many of THOSE the PS2 had. Rhythm/dance? Nothing on the Xbox until DDR late in its lifespan while the PS2 offered all the DDRs, Guitar Hero, Gitaroo-Man, Mad Maestro, Frequency, Amplitude, etc. In the fighting category, the Xbox had Dead or Alive while the PS2 had Tekken and Virtua Fighter.

See what I mean? Just for more diversity on the PS2. It's true that FPSs were always better on the Xbox, and the console usually had the best version of multiplatform titles, but that's about where it ended for me.

3. The PS2 had more top-notch exclusives. I think I can count Halo/Halo 2, Crimson Skies, Ninja Gaiden, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Jade Empire, Deathrow, Otogi/Otogi 2, and Fable. The PS2 had FF X and FF XII, GT 3 and 4, God of War I/II, the aforementioned R&C and Jak games, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, Kingdom Hearts 1/2, TM: Black, and several more titles from each of those genres that go mostly unrepresented on the Xbox.

I mean, Live was certainly superior to the Network and (as I said earlier), multiplatform games were almost always better on the Xbox, and there were several titles I'm damn glad I had a Xbox for. But all in all, I think it's very clear the PS2 was a much better system overall, IMO.

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