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Its because:
a)The PS2 is expensive to develop for. Sqaure announced that to break even with new Final Fantasy games they would have to sell 1.6million units!!! With FF7&8 they only had to sell 1.2million units to make a HUGE profit! see the difference?
b)The PS2 has awkward, closed and difficult hardware. One of the main downfalls of the Saturn was that it was difficult to develop for due to its awkward and very closed hardware. The year Tomb Raider 2 was due to be released on the PS and saturn Eidos announced that the saturn wouldn't get its version due to complication with the Saturns hardware setup.
There quite a few more reasons for the comparison to the now deceased console, one of the more sinister ones is that its comparable due to the fact that a lot of industry insiders have prophecised a similar demise to the PS2 that the Saturn endured. Maybe you'll think twice before being sucked in by Sony hype. Me? I'm not gonna buy a PS2, I'm gonna wait and see how the X-Box and Gamecube come out fighting.
M.
Me? I've not bought it because I played Goldeneye a few months before the DC release and bought an N64 instead, I haven't got enough to buy them both and...
... (hanging my head in shame)... I've been completely brainwashed by the Gamecube hype...
M has a point. Everything the Saturn did wrong, the PS2 has done wrong too.
This doesn't mean that the PS2 WILL go the same way as the Saturn but it COULD do.
Games in those days were stipped down to their bare, and were just simple gameplay at its best.
Its a shame gameplay isn't the highest factor on most peoples minds these days...