As sad as it is, GAME store employees often don’t know anything more about the industry than the people that come into the store. Often LESS than that. Sure, some of them care and know, but it’s certainly not a guarantee. And no, if the GAME store employee lies, they will NOT get into legal trouble. Nor will the store owner or the chain. The worst that can happen, and this ONLY if that same employee tells everyone who asks the same thing, AND the manager finds out, AND someone complains, etc… is that the employee will be given a stern talking to. If they’ve
done it before, probably a suspension, or if it’s really bad, fired. Unfortunately, those things won’t happen, and that person will continue to lie to customers until they get fired for something else, or quit.

Tell you what, I’ll ammend my comment on your friend to simply «misinformed» and the GAME store employee as the one who is the ignoramus.

I’m sorry that you still believe that Sony would even consider stopping PS2 production any time soon. Give it some thought, and I’m sure you’ll realize that doing so would lose them millions of dollars. Most big companies, including Sony, would rather continue selling old products for big profit, then to cut off that profit center hoping to boost sales of their newest product. As I said earlier, PS2 sales are still selling very well, as are PS2 games. PS2 sales numbers are about equal to PS3, and their profit margin on PS2 is higher than PS3.

Yes, they will phase out the PS2 in a few years, slowly, just as they phased out the PS1. You won’t be able to stop that, and I see little reason for wanting to. Over those same years, PS3 games will proliferate and drop in price. The PS3 will continue to improve, change, and drop in price. By the time people are unable to purchase new PS2 and PS2 games, they’ll look at it the same way they look at the PS1 and PS1 games now… as a good system and games, but not your first choice.

But hey, I’m not an industry «insider» like that GAME store person supposedly is. You could be right about all this. Good luck with your group and getting Sony to not stop selling something they haven’t stopped selling.