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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Firevalkyrie" data-source="post: 3957359" data-attributes="member: 57371">Which is actually not true. PS2 games still outsell PS3 games. But that's because there are far more PS2 consoles out there (on the order of 120 million units, compared to about 5.5 million PS3 units) than PS3. It's a larger market to begin with, by an order of magnitude. But after the PS3 launched, PS2 console sales fell away to a tiny fraction of their pre-launch levels. And even the best-selling post-PS3 launch games are selling at a much slower pace than their pre-PS3 launch counterparts. It's not going to be terribly long before companies stop making PS2 back-ports of their PS3-compatible games.The comparison is also not terribly valid, because the buy-in for the PS3 is so ridiculous (I can buy a laptop computer for the $500 it would cost to buy a 60gb PS3), and other next-gen consoles are doing much better relative to their previous-gen counterparts - The Wii all but stopped sales of GameCube consoles and games, likewise with the Xbox 360 (I went to GameStop at Mall of America yesterday and saw a huge pile of unloved GameCubes and Xboxen selling for $29.99 each).</blockquote>