The result was an elite group of developers finally getting the chance to watch their biggest dreams come to life in a way that was simply never possible up until that point. The PS2 represents this incredible moment in the evolution of the genre when we were both benefiting from the ambition of the PS1 generation as well as getting to enjoy the ways that PS2 technology made true 3D gaming so much more viable than it had ever been before.
However, there’s a strong argument to be made that the PS2 not only deserves to be in that conversation but could very well end up taking the crown. When we talk about the best RPG consoles, we typically focus on the SNES and the PS1 (and with good reason).
