In the year 2000, Sony released the
Playstation 2. It had advanced graphics and features, and
it had backwards compatibility with original Playstation
games. The system was a huge success, and it set the
record for best-selling system of all time in 2006. Its
main competitors were Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's Game Cube,
both of which were released in 2001. All three systems
used game discs. Both the Playstation 2 and the Xbox
featured online gameplay for many of their games. The Xbox
hadThat same year, Nintendo released the Game Boy Advance, the successor
to the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, which had the technology of
the SNES. In 2004, Nintendo released the Nintendo
DS. The system was the successor to the Game Boy consoles,
and it eventually became the second best selling video game
system of all time.