MasterP said:
Now I’m REALLY confused…
But Josh it’s not intentionally hating. My understanding from other threads is that Sony intentionally took out the ability to natively play PS1/PS2 games so they could implement it differently (or sell it back) later. That would be like Nintendo taking away the gamecube compatibility after a few months of sales so they could release (or sell) a seperate “channel” for it later. Yeah in the end it might be nice but in the meantime the players who didn’t jump on the bandwagon from the start are kinda screwed. Everyone knows the console could easily play them and probably has the raw power to software emulate them, I guess it’s just taboo to discuss it…
I just think it hurts you guys is all I’m saying. I think that’s something Sony should invent a time machine to go back and redo that whole thing differently.
Btw, integration with TVs is a sexy feature.
Yeah with out really thinking about it it seems wrong but if you put yourself in the shoes of the game developers…Think about this…the new ghost busters game was for all systems including ps2 and ps3, if most had backwards compatiblity why would i buy the ps3 version..for 50% the price and half the graphics i could get the same game for the ps2 and play it on ps3…dont you see how that would be a problem for the game companies as well as sony…how can they support the ps2 now if they allow you to do that on the ps3 right now,,,the reason it was on the orignal released ps3s was because they thought the ps2 sales would go in the toilet when the ps3 was released
For the systems that are not backwards compatible allready they will release a firmware patch that will enable it and of course it will be free.