March Climber
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The PS2 was not fully dead in 5 years. You simply stopped playing it in 5 years.5 years. Because in the PS2 era it was enough. Of course it should be more now but the question is in general not this gen in particular. I think that if you accept the idea that 1 game per generation that seems to happen often those days then the less time is "lost" in a gen the faster we can get another sequel of the best games ever, regardless of what game is considered the best. Maybe in a few generations the jumps in tech will slow down enough that it will be possible to go the phone route of 1 each year but I hope that it will be in a long time.
These are examples of games that released on PS2, post-PS3 release:
Okami
God of War 2
Persona 3/P3 FES
Persona 4
Baroque
King of Fighters XI
Hot Shots Tennis
GrimGrimoire
Red Star
Rogue Galaxy
Socom
Final Fantasy 12
Phantasy Star Universe
Burnout Dominator
Eternal Poison
Yakuza 1 and 2
DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3
Tales of the Abyss
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
Dot Hack G.U. Vol 1, 2 and 3
Valkyrie Profile 2
Stuntman: Ignition
Wild Arms 5
Smackdown Vs Raw 2009
These releases range from late 2006/2007 until late 2009, which is around the time the PS3 finally found it's footing with price slash and the Kevin Butler ad 'It only does everything'. If PS3/360 came out in 2008 or 2009 instead of 2006, I think people would have been fine with this output. The length between PS4 and PS5 was arguably too short, and Covid didn't help matters, because the PS5 had an extremely dry start.