I suspect there may be a demographic divide in the responses, mainly split along age (not just how old you are but also the people you interact with and know) and secondarily, a distant second, by region.
The thing you have to remember about the PlayStation is that as dominant as the PS2 was as the de facto combination DVD player for a gigantic market back in the day, it arrived in what was already an established specialist market and never commanded an outsized dominance on its own. In the PS1 era it entered a field where the perceived rivalry was between Nintendo and Sega. It has never had the field to itself. Meanwhile, if you're old enough to have any memory at all of the eighties and nineties (at least in countries where consoles were a thing at all), you remember a time when people with zero personal, direct experience with video games used "Nintendo" synonymously to mean all games. There was a time when the brand was practically genericized, even in regions where Sega was going toe-to-toe with it. Those people is still around and kicking, and old habits die hard. And I've never known that to be the case with the PS line.
To its credit, the PlayStation does have the distinction of being name-dropped in the Harry Potter books, which will likely still be read in a hundred years when the current paradigm of video game consoles is long gone.
