PlayStation 2 is a home video game host that is developed by Sony Computer Entertainment company. It is PlayStation's successor and the second part of the PlayStation lineup. On March 4, 2000 in Japan October 26, 2000 in North America, November 24, 2000 in Europe and November 17, 2000 were released in Australia. It competes with Sega's Dreamcast, Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube video game consoles in the sixth generation Madden 18 Coins.

PlayStation 2 is the first PlayStation console to provide backward compatibility for its predecessor, the DualShock controller and its games. While PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game machine all the time, sales of more than 155 million units, 150 million by Sony in 2011 confirmed that more than 3,874 of the game has been released since the PS2, more than sold 1.5 billion copies. Sony later produced several smaller, lighter versions in 2004, called the slimline model, and announced and launched its successor, PlayStation, in 2006, 3.