darn it! rental stores are selling out!!!

[daywane]

PS2 and Xbox games are $4.00 each also game qube 
glad to buy them cheep. hate I can no longer rent them
I hate it when a system is killed.
I guess my cosole days are numbered
I will not spend the funds on the newer systems.
cash is needed else were.

[AtomSmasher]

PS2 isn't quite dead yet.  According to Neilson it was the most played console last year by a large margin and new games are still occasionally being released for it (Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories was just released last month)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/156259/nielsens_top_10_pc_games_and_consoles_of_2008.html

[Blanka]

Strange your rental store stopped supporting the most popular console. I just buyed a PS2 friday. To roll up them Katamari balls. Hail the King of all Cosmos 

[Blanka]

Oh and the reason for the decline of PC gaming is very obvious:
The PC is accepted in the living room nowadays. We don't want to head for the attic any more to our Geforce 9800X2 tower. But only as long as it comes in the form of a laptop or as a gaming console. Guess which of the two sucks at gaming 
And the wide living room accepted iMac sucks at gaming too.

[DaveMMR]

Oh and the reason for the decline of PC gaming is very obvious:
The PC is accepted in the living room nowadays. We don't want to head for the attic any more to our Geforce 9800X2 tower. But only as long as it comes in the form of a laptop or as a gaming console. Guess which of the two sucks at gaming 
And the wide living room accepted iMac sucks at gaming too.

I don't know, I've seen PCs hanging out in living rooms since even before anyone knew what an "internet" was.  Conversely, I still prefer playing PC games in my room (not out in the open).  PC games, with few exceptions, aren't really social (with people in the same room).  I don't think the "decline" mentioned in the article was for any terribly significant reason other than some more-than-likely obvious catalyst for the decrease (e.g. lower 360 price, explosion of Wii, wife feeling amorous, etc. ).

[Mauzy]

Strange your rental store stopped supporting the most popular console. I just buyed a PS2 friday. To roll up them Katamari balls. Hail the King of all Cosmos 

The whole reason (and only new game I ever bought for it) I bought a PS2. What a crazy ass game...


ROYAL RAINBOW!!!

[SavannahLion]

Oh and the reason for the decline of PC gaming is very obvious:
The PC is accepted in the living room nowadays. We don't want to head for the attic any more to our Geforce 9800X2 tower. But only as long as it comes in the form of a laptop or as a gaming console. Guess which of the two sucks at gaming 
And the wide living room accepted iMac sucks at gaming too.

I don't know, I've seen PCs hanging out in living rooms since even before anyone knew what an "internet" was.  Conversely, I still prefer playing PC games in my room (not out in the open).  PC games, with few exceptions, aren't really social (with people in the same room).  I don't think the "decline" mentioned in the article was for any terribly significant reason other than some more-than-likely obvious catalyst for the decrease (e.g. lower 360 price, explosion of Wii, wife feeling amorous, etc. ).

Uh... most PCs in the living room are usually there for a technical reason. In ye' ol' days of dial-up, this was usually where the phone was located. Rather than just install more phone jacks throughout the house (my friends would express surprise at a phone in the bathroom... they didn't really understand my dad), most just put the computer nearer to the phone. Now, it's where the cable broadband would be located, same reasons. It's really strange to come across so many homes that don't have cable in nearly every room. The other reason is for parents to try and prevent their kids from looking at porn.

The "decline" is just a line of ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---. It's a pendulum. For a few years, everyone will say PCs will be on the decline when new consoles are introduced. Then people will say consoles are on the decline as consoles reaches the end of its useful life and new PC hardware is released. PCs have their place that can't be filled by consoles and vice versa. It'll be a long time yet before that gap between PC and console is fully closed, if it ever closes.

[DaveMMR]

The "decline" is just a line of ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---. It's a pendulum. For a few years, everyone will say PCs will be on the decline when new consoles are introduced. Then people will say consoles are on the decline as consoles reaches the end of its useful life and new PC hardware is released. PCs have their place that can't be filled by consoles and vice versa. It'll be a long time yet before that gap between PC and console is fully closed, if it ever closes.

You'll see the pendulum swinging the other way this year as Sims 3* will be coming out.  It's all in the timing of high profile releases. 

(*unless EA pulls that DRM crap again)

[Daniel270]

Pulls?   It's been doing it pretty much for the past 6 months to a year...  Sims 2, Spore and most PC games EA has produced has the DRM on it.  I've had to quit buying Sims 2 (much to the wife's dismay) and Spore (much to mine, after the Creature Creator came out) just because of the crappy way the DRM has been handled. 

EA's lost a faithful customer.

[SNAAKE]

cash is needed else were.

[northerngames]

soon eb and gamestop are going to stop buying the xbox's and when there stock runs out of what they currently have there no longer going to carry any original xbox stuff anymore either.

not sure if there doing the same to the ps2 stuff also but it may be why some of the rental store's are gettig rid of them also becuase there going to loose their source.

[SavannahLion]

soon eb and gamestop are going to stop buying the xbox's and when there stock runs out of what they currently have there no longer going to carry any original xbox stuff anymore either.

Didn't EB announce bankruptcy a few months ago? Right around the time Mervyns announced theirs?

[northerngames]

I have no clue I just seen it posted on another site.

[DaveMMR]

Pulls?   It's been doing it pretty much for the past 6 months to a year... 

Yeah, which is why I said "again".      And I was making reference specifically to Spore, whose DRM implementation led to a class-action suit, one-star reviews on Amazon, and the distinction of being the most pirated game of 2008 (if not ever). 

EDIT: I just realized you may have misunderstood that by "pulls" I meant "implements" (not "removes").