It's been a long time coming, but the PS2 is finally dropping to $99 on April 5th. This has been rumored for a while, but the retail flyers for that week confirmed it, as well as some computer entries posted over on the High Def Digest forums.

So the PS2 is dropping below $100 finally after nine years on the market. But do you think this is really going to spur sales or even put a dent in the Wii juggernaut? Seems like too little too late from Sony at this point, especially when they should be busting ass to get the PS3 price down.

This should be officially announced on the 31st.

sources:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=356814
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/1488140-post103.html (Registration required to view the pictures)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3396602212_36588bdc82_b.jpg

I can't belive it took this long for PS2 to drop to $99. I think it is going to sell really well in April because of the economy.

I still have my phat PS2 that I bought back in 2002 and it still works perfectly (yup, no DREs or anything), but if the slim version is only $99 I'll get that as well just in case this one breaks.

wow finally? it was all ways stupid of sony to keep the thing at 129 when the psOne lowered down to 99 much sooner i might pick up a replacement for my current psTwo.

I'm gonna be picking one up eventually, I've got about 6 PS2 games that I haven't played yet.

I probably should get one so I can play Metal Gear Solid (1-3) and Persona. Plus some other games I can't think of now.

Hey Systech, go get some games

"I probably should get one so I can play Metal Gear Solid (1-3) and Persona. Plus some other games I can't think of now. "

Awesome, now I just need the PS3 to drop in price and I'll be in business.

Should be down to $80 at the most but whatever,the ps2 is an amazing system.

I've played the shitballs out of my fatass release PS2, so I'm probably gonna pick up the $99 slim.

*yawn*  Don't they want to make any money on there PS3?

Finally I been waiting years to get one.
But seriously this thing has great mods for it, you just need to know where to look

Too bad it's 3-4 years overdo. I wonder if they're going to relaunch it as pstwo