Li

I sold my old PS2 on eBay about a month ago for $150 so that I could replace it with the new model. Of course, because of Christmas, PS2s are scarce and I was just going to wait until after Christmas to get my new one. I'm starting to wonder if I did the right thing, however, because my manager at EB Games was telling me how he's on his 3rd one because the other two became very hot while playing. He said the new design had no room for a fan so the unit becomes very hot while playing and may overheat... Has anyone heard about this problem?

ClarkKentKY

Don't know about heat... but... My Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas would not play in my friend's new PS2. Played every other game but that one. And GTA:SA plays fine in my original style PS2. Anyone else experienced this?

djones6746

Have had mine since October...no problems. Have run it for three hours or more at one time and the system peformed fine.

darkside

If you use the PS2 horizontal it can get pretty hot underneath. However, I used mine that way for awhile and it never overheated or gave me any problems.

It is worth the extra $14 to get the vertical stand for it and use it that way. No heat gets trapped under the console. After playing GTA for 5 hours the console was only warm and it cooled down in a matter of minutes once I stopped playing.

I've easily put 100+ hours on my PStwo since buying it and haven't run into any problems. I'm sure Sony designed it to handle the heat it creates.

pdutta2000

no problems with mine. Since I won't be seeing GT4 this year...I decided to rip out GT3 and play for a bit. 4 hours of constant racing didn't seem to do anything. My console sits horizontally on my DVD player.

joshd2012

Works perfectly. I do recommend the vertical stand, as was mentioned above.

WOLFie

I have both and the new smaller one runs VERY hot. The old model you could keep on for hours and it would get warm but never worrying hot, the little one on the other hand gets HOT. I am surprised it carries a longer warranty than the big one.

ClarkKentKY

So no one else had a problem with a PStwo and GTA:SA ???

Li

I can't imagine that that would be a common problem. Otherwise there'd be a lot of pissed off people.

ClarkKentKY

I figure i would have heard about it by now if it was common. But it makes me suspect my friend's PS2 may be on the fritz.

Hospitaller

No problems with the new PStwo and GTA:SA... I spent a few weeks down in Georgia for training and clocked in quite a few hours of SA. I personally havent noticed any heat problems and my PStwo is left horizontal. If I think of it tonight maybe ill place something under it to elevate it a centimeter or so to help the heat get out. And in reference to the OP, yes the PStwo does have a fan, ive seen some pics with the "worky bits" exposed it looks like the little fan from a computer video card's heat sink (go figure)

Fok

Whew glad I kept my original one.

darkside

I put in 60 hours so far on GTA: SA with my PStwo with no problems at all.

Third Baseman

No problems with overheating or SA here on the new PS2 for me.

Drexl

I don't understand the ads: the "slimmer, more capable PS2." I can see it's slimmer, but how is it more capable? It doesn't work with the hard drive. The network capability was already integrated into the larger model.

Maybe it's more capable of getting hot?

djones6746

I have logged many hours on my new ps2 with no problems whatsoever.

wlj

i am perfectly happy with my old version.


wlj

scottp120

I have an old one and recently got a new smaller one. I have played GTA SA for several hours straight and while it does get warm, it has never overheated.

Bluebomber

I've had the slimmer model since it came out, just pulled an all nighter with Mark of Kri from 11-6 or so, unit was warm but no overheating. Not using a vertical stand.

Goldblum

I still have one of the original PS2 models, although I purchased it in 2001. Anyway, I use it fairly regularly and used it for my DVD player for almost 3 years. I also keep it horizontal. To this day, no problems.

sniper308

I thought the old model did not have an integrated NIC. I thought you had to pay extra for that, but now the new version has it included.

Drexl

Yes, but I thought that the NIC became a standard part of the larger PS2 last year when they produced the online pack with ATV Fury. I thought they were producing all their systems with it included from that point on, but I could be wrong.

In any case, I still think this model is less capable, because even if the older one didn't have the network adaptor built in, you could still get one and use the hard drive. I suppose you could call the new one more capable out of the box compared to the old one, but ultimately you can do more with the older one.

fujishig

Well, the new one also has progressive scan capabilities (which I think for DVD playback were not in the original) as well as, IIRC, an integrated IR port for the DVD remote.

darkside

The bigger PS2 also had progressive scan and the ir port added the last year or so. The only thing really different about the slim one is the built in port for online gaming.

joshd2012

The new version does load faster, so that would make it MORE capable than the older version in that sence.