Many Venezuelan gamers may ditch console gaming completely, though. As for PlayStation 4, he tells me it hasn’t reached there yet, and it will only be affordable to the most affluent members of society when it arrives. He also said that “there is a lot of demand for pirated PS2 games, since the originals are very costly.”Īnd with PlayStation 3 hardware costing between 10,000 and 20,000 bolívares fuertes ($1,589 to $3,178), according to Baute, it’s easy to see why PlayStation 2 remains a popular choice in his country.īaute says that PlayStation 3 is only really accessible to the middle classes and high society in Venezuela. Baute told me that the PlayStation 2 is one of the most popular consoles in Venezuela still, along with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. I wondered why, as a gamer, he was playing on PlayStation 2 and not a more recent machine. Proof, if needed, that the PlayStation 2 can still deliver a gaming experience powerful enough to capture a 10-year-old’s attention, even with the lure of shinier, more powerful consoles just a few feet away. “What, your player’s not even on the bench?” “Oh, I’ve not been picked for this game,” he said. He played friendlies against his younger sister, took on the Champions League, and created his own player in career mode – “Mooshy,” a 6-foot-8 giant from Holland – endlessly tweaking his hair styles, glasses, and beard options.Īt one point I came in to find him, controller in hand, watching Southampton (known as “Soton” in the game due to licensing restrictions) play Arsenal (or “North London”). But for one week, my son - more usually found building devilish traps in Minecraft or trading players on FIFA 14 (on the PlayStation 4) – wanted to play nothing else but PES 2014 on the PlayStation 2 Now, our house has a lot of gaming options: consoles, handhelds, tablets, PCs. The next thing I know, he’s persuaded me to hand over the controller and avidly diving through the menu system, seeing what excitement PES 2014 could offer up. His interest piqued, he came and watched me play an exhibition match. I told him it was a game I was writing about. “What’s that you’re playing?” my son called from next door. The menus looked promising, once the game let me in – I had to delete a bunch of old save files first to make some space on my 8MB memory card (yep, 8MB).

I’d even managed to find my last working DualShock 2 controller, having rummaged through a ton a boxes (unearthing a few more gaming treasures in the process). I sat down to play Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 a few weeks ago, having dug out my PlayStation 2 and my old CRT television and set it up in the living room.

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