The big and shiny PS3 may have blasted in to take the top seat in the PlayStation line of consoles, but the PS2 isn't dead, it's just serving a different sector of the market, says bigBIG's, Chris Whiteside.
Currently lead designer on Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice, Whiteside told CVG: "I don't think [the PS2 has] been superseded. If you remember the longevity of use of the PSone after the PS2 came out - PSone was still huge for a long time afterwards."
And sales of the PS2 appear to show the same will apply to PS2, with it even outselling PS3 in many cases. But this doesn't mean PS3 is underperforming, explained Whiteside.
"I'm no expert on this but it's the same in many cases. If you look at the car industry, say, at the VW Golf - first you see way more mark-four Golfs than you do Mark-fives but as time goes on, you see more Mark-fives and then the Mark-six comes out," he hypothesised.
"You always get a certain number of early adopters and I think the PS3 is doing really well with that," he added.
"The PlayStation family as a whole is comfortable with the fact that they have three really good consoles. And I think that, in terms of lifestyle, they're all equally positioned in different areas of the market. The PS3 is in its infancy and will continue to grow, but I think it will be a long time before the PS2 gets phased out.
"I would say there's plenty of life left in the old dog," he concluded. So it's long live PS2.
Check out our full interview in which Whiteside talks about the importance of online gaming, how PS2 and PS3 can exist in harmony together, and more about the solid-looking Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice.
