Sony Playstation 2 Vertical Console Stand

When I first started reading about the PlayStation 2 launch ‘disaster’ as the tabloids and gaming press so promptly went on about, I noticed the small issue of people buying stands for their console to rest upon. ‘What on earth?’ I thought, how can Sony seriously expect consumers to pay £9.99 just to stand their console up or even lay it horizontally? It does this very well on it’s own, so why will people buy them? Surely yet another Sony ‘rip off’ campaign to try to recuperate losses they incurred on the console sales! Well, err yes it is, but then people will do crazy things, they become a mass of insanity and, well, they ...

Being only one of a million people needing more room on my TV stand, I bought a vertical stand for my PS2, so I could, of course, stand my PS2 upright next to my TV instead of having it sit on the floor, because there was no where else I had room for it to go on my TV stand. I bought the vertical stand on Ebay for just a few dollars, but now I kind of wish that I had just decided to leave my PS2 on the floor where it was. First thing to note: for those who don't already know, there are two Playstation 2 consoles. The first generation is a few inches thick, the second generation, about an inch thick and has many of the features built in that you need special ...

The PlayStation2 is a bit of a beast, to say the least. It is much bigger than the original, a lot heavier, and considerably more expensive (at this time). The PS2 has been designed so that it can either sit underneath your television just like your VCR, digital TV box and whatever else you have plugged into your telly, or it can be sat on its side in the verticle position, taking on the appearance of a 'Japanese tower block'. I've never been to Japan and if anyone of them live in a tower block that looks like that then they have my condolences! Anyway, many of us do not have the room underneath the television to stack the PS2 horizontally and so ...