And it’s next generation brother, the Playstation 3, is not happy. A study by the Nielsen Media Research group shows that the Sony Playstation 2 console got the most attention in 2008, with over 30 percent of gaming time spent on that machine. It easily beat it’s newer brother, the PS3, which could only generate a mere 7.7%. This puts it slightly ahead of the quite old GameCube.

Most people apparently feel that the price tag of the Playstation 3 is still too high, and the extra Blu-ray player that is integrated into the system doesn’t make up for it. Until Blu-ray discs become as cheap as DVDs are now people will be happy to keep playing on their “aged” Playstation 2 and view their movies on their trusted DVD players. A dilemma for Sony?

Top Console Usage (by percent of minutes played)
PlayStation 2 (30.2 percent)
Xbox 360 (18.3 percent)
Wii (13.5 percent)
Xbox (9.1 percent)
PlayStation 3 (7.7 percent)
GameCube (4.4 percent)
Other (16.9 percent)

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