15 Mind-Blowing Facts About The PS2

13. Not Enough Memory Cards

The official PS2 Memory Card was 8MB, which is a laughably small amount of data nowadays.

The average built-in hard drive for a PS4 or Xbox One is 500GB, which really shows how gaming has come on leaps and bounds over the years, mainly due to the requirements for downloadable updates and full games themselves. In 2002, following a number of disputes with third party developers, Sony simply couldn't match the demand for Memory Cards from the PS2's millions of users.

This led to a real shortage of the small plastic chips, something which outraged a lot of players. Nowadays, on systems such as the PS Vita, Sony enjoy only offering memory support for their own officially released SD cards, and maybe this lack of third party support first surfaced with the PS2.

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