The Sony Playstation 2 was Sony's second video game console and was released in October 2000 in North America. It was a sixth-generation console and primarily competed with the Dreamcast, Gamecube, and XBOX. It was announced in 1999, and provided backwards-compatibility for the original Playstation's DualShock controller. It received mostly postive reviews, and became the best-selling video game console of all time, selling 155 million units by the time it was discontinued in 2013. A total of 4,000 game titles were released for the console, and a total of 1.5 billion copies of all games were sold. In 2004, Sony redesigned the Playstation 2, made it smaller and lighter, and named it the PS2 Slim. Even after the release of the Playstation 3, it stayed popular until it's discontinuation.
