A closer look
Sony released the PlayStation 2 in the year 2000, and it remains the best-selling video game console of all time primarily because it happened to be the cheapest DVD player on the market at launch. Millions of non-gamers bought the sleek black box not because they had any burning desire to play Metal Gear Solid 2 or Final Fantasy, but simply because they wanted to watch the Matrix in high quality without spending five hundred dollars on a dedicated media deck. Sony basically Trojan-horsed a gaming machine into the living rooms of countless confused parents who just wanted to see Keanu Reeves dodge bullets. The greatest victory in console war history was achieved not through superior processing power or exclusive titles, but by enabling your dad to finally throw away his clunky old VHS player
