Today is important because two separate announcements have made me feel exceptionally old.  The first, as you might have guessed, is that Sony has cut the price of the PlayStation 2 to $99.  Why does that make me feel old?  Because I realized that this cut comes nine years after the PS2 came out in October of 2000.  Yeesh, I can still remember some of my teachers in school talking about how they were feverishly trying to hunt down a PS2 to give to their child for Christmas.  I guess that's the sort of thing that sticks with you when you're a geek.

This announcement really has me thinking.  Ever since I purchased my PS3 I have realized that I missed out on a lot of quality franchises by skipping the PS2.  What I want most is to go back and play games like Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and this price reduction might be the motivation I needed to actually pull the trigger on some "classic" gaming.  What I'm really holding out for though, is a store on PSN which sells downloadable PS2 games so I can get that experience without having to drop cash on an older console.  Maybe we'll see that one day.

So I guess this is good news if you're in the market for a PS2 almost a decade later.  Another cool thing about this announcement is that it gives some credibility to Sony's "10 year strategy" with their consoles.  Maybe the PS3 will actually be relevant 8 years from now.  I can only hope!