MasterP said:
Emulation of any kind reduces performance, I would be surprised if they got all the games to 100% speed.
Sony really screwed you guys when they took away your entire existing library of games. I find it borderline incredible that the only current-gen console with 100% free backwards compatibility with the previous generation was Nintendo. I thought such a feature was an expectation and not even an option in regards to feature cutting to save money. I mean really, the main chip of a PS2 costs what? $50? They just wanted to push the PS3 out and not worry about it because who doesn’t want to keep that old PS2 hooked up?
Keep in mind that PS2 sales have still been extremely high since the PS3 came out. Now that they are finally starting to decline and production is becoming less profitable (???) they could cancel production and focus on their current-gen console only. Saves money, another cost cutting venture.
not really mitch…the first gen ps3 systems (20GB and 60GB) had the actual actual hardware to make them backwards compatible…then they discontinued them and replaced them with the 40GB and 80GB…the 80GB in order to cut costs they removed the hardware and replaced it with an emulator and there was absolutly no diffrence…The preformance is acutally better for both…expecially since all graphics are upconverted…soon after this they discontinued all backward compatible modles and claimed that it would be released once they decide to kill PS2
I have an original 60GB version with the hardware
my dad has the old 80GB with the emulator
We have played ps2 games on them.
PROS:
Plays just as smoothly on both
Upconverts graphics for both PS1 and PS2 games
CONS:
Cant play games with extra perifs. like original GH1 and 2 and all the PS2 DDRs