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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shapermc" data-source="post: 532132" data-attributes="member: 9007">All valid points.  All good points.  PS2 is the system for the person on a budget (if the Dreamcast is not you "cup of hot blood") and I just picked up Resident Evil Code Veronica for $10 used on sat.  I am not saying that it is a bad system.  It has a huge library and most of the good classics are $20 - $35 new.  I give the system all this.  But I know that the PS2 has the HIGHEST rate of malfunctions in any system ever to hit the market (this is system stuff not games crashing) and most of it revolves around the DVD player.  I have more PS2 titles in my gaming library than any of the other nextgen consoles in production (no where near the 60+ that I have for the DC).  But I have spent 2x as much time on my Xbox gaming than my PS2 and that Is what it boils down to for me.  I was disapointed with the probems in the PS2 dvd playback and it was always with brand new movies.  When I bought Kiss of the Dragon (Jet Li and Bridget Fonda) I poped it in with out ever having been viewed befor.  It hit the halfway point and tried to swithc layers.  It could not.  I thought that it was a bad batch of DVD burnings (I refused to think that it was the PS2) so I took it back and got a new one.   Same problem.  I tryed another DVD player and had no problems <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  I took it to my friends PS2. No problems <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />.  Now I would not want this to happen to someone who is looking for a DVD player that plays games, and I can think of 5 other movies that this happen to in the PS2.  If that is what you want go with the Xbox (a DVD player that plays games).  It is the best bang for your buck right now.  Like I said for your first system unless there are some die hard games that you must have for it I would recomend avoiding the risk of a PS2 malfunction.  Also Xbox has Higher DVD playback resolution <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.I hope that that clerifies my point.  I was not saying that PS2 was bad if you are a gamer, but if your looking for a DVD player that plays games go with the Xbox (it is also my fav system at the moment).</blockquote>

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