My only experience is with Amazon Canada, so I can't really say. I guess the selection might be different, but I doubt prices or actual item conditions would differ greatly.
any1th3r3
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I wouldn't recommend shopping on Amazon in general, but in this case specifically, I would recommend checking Warehouse Deals for the Dualsense Edge. That's how I got mine for 40% off MSRP and it was pretty much brand new. It's honestly the best investment I've made since getting my PS5, hands down.
I'm making my way through Spider-Man Remastered!
I'm liking it quite a bit, I'm probably about a quarter of the way through and I find that the story is more enticing than I remember Miles Morales being (yeah, I probably should have played them in order... but here we are).
I'm finishing FF XVI (all side quests and hunts, probably a few more trophies and then the final main quest).
Not sure what I'll play after that, although either Stray or Spider-Man Remastered have been on my backlog for a bit.
First off, thanks for the read!
I went down this road last year as part of my initial "retrogaming exploration" (really buying every and all consoles I could get my hands on, before realizing I only wanted to keep a handful to actually play on OG hardware and emulate the rest).
PS2 is a tough one to play on modern TVs, only because most game were designed with interlacing in mind (and very run at a native 480p/576p, not accounting for the myriad of other exotic resolutions you could find) and most upscalers won't use appropriate deinterlacing algorithms.
The OSSC is a good middle ground (around $130 USD on AliExpress or similar), provided you're willing to invest in some pretty good quality RGB SCART or Component cables. There's a big "but", however, in that it uses Bob deinterlacing for 480i/576i games (ie most of the PS2 library) and that doesn't look great... But YMMV.
The RetroTINK 5x is the best upscaler out there atm, with way better deinterlacing, however it is significantly more expensive ($325 USD). You'll absolutely want great quality RGB SCART or Component cables for this one.
Ultimately, these can be costly, especially if you're only interested in playing your old PS2 games, but they become a much better investment as soon as you have at least a handful of consoles you'd like to plug on a modern TV. I can personally vouch for the OSSC, it's a great (mostly) easy to setup upscaler, with a number of different inputs and a fair price IMO.
(To get back to my intro, I gave up on playing PS2 games on OG hardware, I sold both my OG PS2 and my CECHE PS3 for a much more robust Super Slim PS3 for PS1/PS3 games and am now emulating PS2 games on my Series X or Steam Deck... But it was pretty fun to explore what options were available, although poor deinterlacing techniques and reliability concerns got the best of me)
It's a tough one. The Series S is likely the larger install base by a fair margin as well as one where the consumer has to buy games / a subscription from Microsoft directly, so they have all the more reason to keep catering to Series S users and prospective buyers (even though console sales is clearly not their primary focus and they are losing money on each console being sold).
On the other hand, it might prove to be a hassle for developers going forward, in the same way PS3 and its infamous CELL processor were a couple generations back, leading to potentially fewer (or less polished) 3rd-party games on Series consoles.