Well, at least things are looking optimistic so far!

And the PS2 also gave us Dragon Quest VIII from SE. While probably not the best DQ overall, it's still a very good game (seriously, is there a main Dragon Quest that's less than amazing) that showed us how you can do a life-sized world map on a PS2 game, so it wasn't all bad for SE. But yeah, the smaller IPs pretty much died here, I'll agree. Poor Unlimited Saga.