NA PS2 - One Last Shot

[Volkai]

It uses directX 9 for window management, nothing else. It was never promised to recieve an "upgrade" outside of that. They had to do it for windowed mode.

Also in case someone brings it up, xbox controllers use XInput, not DirectX, so fully utilizing directX 9 would not, for instance, solve the xbox controller troubles some people have complained about.

Still, it's more likely to happen if the PS2 is removed from the picture than if it isn't. Cynicism isn't a justification for continuing to support an ancient platform.

Nor is it justification for ending support for an allegedly ancient platform in one region when support for that platform is continued in another region.

[Alhanelem]

Nor is it justification for ending support for an allegedly ancient platform in one region when support for that platform is continued in another region.

Except support even in that other region will eventually cease as well. The only reason it hasn't ceased yet is because the PS2 is still much, much more alive in Japan than it is here. I don't even think you have any idea just how many more PS2s are still in active service in Japan. Companies made PS2 games in japan long after most stopped being sold here.

It's a fact of life that not every region gets all the same games and support. It's the way things have been, are now, and will most likely always be.

Up until VERY recently, the PS2 was still being sold in Japan. It hasn't been for sale in the US for quite some time.

[Volkai]

Except support even in that other region will eventually cease as well. The only reason it hasn't ceased yet is because the PS2 is still much, much more alive in Japan than it is here. I don't even think you have any idea just how many more PS2s are still in active service in Japan. Companies made PS2 games in japan long after most stopped being sold here.

It's a fact of life that not every region gets all the same games and support. It's the way things have been, are now, and will most likely always be.

Up until VERY recently, the PS2 was still being sold in Japan. It hasn't been for sale in the US for quite some time.

None of which is relevant to the topic at hand.

[Alhanelem]

None of which is relevant to the topic at hand.

Actually, all of it is relevant to the topic at hand. We aren't getting the PS2 version because

1) hardly anyone still plays on the ps2, and
2) the ps2 has long since been discontinued, and unsupported, by Sony in the US.

In Japan at the time of the expansion announcement, neither of these were true (But they soon will be).

This thread is begging for a ps2 SoA disk. both the "irrelevant" stuff you quoted and this post explain why we won't get one.

[Volkai]

Actually, all of it is relevant to the topic at hand. We aren't getting the PS2 version because

1) hardly anyone still plays on the ps2, and
2) the ps2 has long since been discontinued, and unsupported, by Sony in the US.

In Japan at the time of the expansion announcement, neither of these were true (But they soon will be).

This thread is begging for a ps2 SoA disk. both the "irrelevant" stuff you quoted and this post explain why we won't get one.

Go back and reread OP. It's not begging, and it's not for a disc.

It's advocating for the opportunity for would-be buyers of a PS2 version to invest the money needed to justify making a ps2 SoA disc.

Something you've already said you have no problem with.