Another Nail In The PlayStation 2's Coffin: Sony Shuts Down Its Aftercare Service!

General news News 09/05/2018

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What a respectable approach: the PlayStation 2 is eighteen (!!!) years old, and Sony kept supporting the console which hasn’t been manufactured for a while.

The PlayStation 2 is successful. We can’t walk past by its estimation of a 150 million (!!!) shipped units, and it was on the shelves long enough to see its „grandson,” the PlayStation 4, hit the market.

Thus, we can understand why Sony kept its PlayStation Clinic service for so long – we could send in our non-functional PS2s to Sony, where the official technicians could put the old console on its legs again. We use the past tense intentionally – Eurogamer reports that Sony is shutting the service down on September 7, and since August 31, the online repair form isn’t available.

Sony wants us to finally move on to the PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4, as these consoles have several PS2 titles re-released in updated/remade formats. Still, we have to applaud Sony for keeping the console supported for this long.

Source: VG247

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