We are now near the one year mark of PlayStation 3 existence and we must say that things did not go as Sony pictured it. The highly popular PlayStation 2 is still leading in sales for the company and it is not the PSP or the PS3 as many did expect. We saw that last month there were 215 thousand PS2 sold. Only 119,400 PlayStation 3 game consoles were sold. Why is this happening? Well, the answer is obvious. For the regular gamer, the low price of the PS2 and the many games available are the two reasons why it is still preferred. On the other hand, the PlayStation 3 video game console is not cheap and does not come with many available titles to showcase.

This is the seventh year of existence for the PlayStation 2 and it still has incredible market strength. On the other hand, this is quite good for Sony as they do claim their video game consoles come with a 10 year life cycle when planned. We are still 3 years away from this mark though and it is hard to imagine that the PS2 will still hold on when compared with the PS3 until that mark. This video game console will eventually be left out but we are soon getting into the holiday season and Sony still wants to profit from the PlayStation 2 video game console. The company will be launching a special edition Ceramic White PlayStation 2 console that will come with 2 microphones and SingStarPro included. We can also see that Rock Band and Guitar Hero 3 will be launched for PS2 soon so we must think that the console is still important for Sony.