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PS3 Backwards compatibility: 1,000 reasons not to worry |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: Africa, Australia, Europe, Phil Harrison, playstation 3 updates, Sony
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Phil Harrison, Sony's president for worldwide studios, has some good news for the Sony gaming community to ease the tension regarding the PlayStation 3's backwards compatibility.The president says that come the March 23 release of the PS3 in Europe, Australia, Africa and the Middle East, the console will be able to host a thousand games from the PS2.
"The situation is changing everyday," says Harrison. "But on March 23, we expect the list to include over 1000 PS2 titles."
News broke out earlier that the PS2's emotion engine would be taken out of PS3 Euro in lieu of more formidable hardware which will beef up the next-generation experience that the console delivers.
Sony has also announced that a software solution to the hardware issue is forthcoming, saying that software emulation will be the means by which PS2 classics can bridge the gap between the old and the new systems.
Harrison promised the game community that the company is exerting effort to provide better means to preserve backwards compatibility. he says "We're working to introduce a resource to the Web to detail which titles will have backwards compatibility. and as we make firmware upgrades, we will be able to add to that list."
Here's hoping that more titles will be supported by the plan.
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wow.. istn this even more than the x360 + xbox games combined ?XD
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Seems the people on the Software emulation team at Sony have been working alot harder then the team at MS at the initial launch.
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wher i get my playstation 2 back in 2001 i have only play 2 game from the ps 1 on my playstation 2 final fantasy 7 an mgs
an sony will get all the new ps2 games to work on the ps3 so come on after some time you all will play the playstation 3 games an some of you have the psp to an play some of the good games from the playstation 1 on the psp
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The EE provided PS2 backwards compatibility.
So PS1 games will still use hardware, but PS2 games will be completely software emulated.
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and besides, why are you talking abuot ps3 prisings here ? take your ***** elsewhere
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(Basically Here's some things to hate about nintendo: Great, SD. Great, Motion-sensing?(if you're not a fan of it, but a fan of nintendo), Great,... No DVD Player, no HDD-_-;... no power.)
But really I think the Ps3 release was used to push Blu-ray, and well... it worked sadly enough. and as for the winner of the gaming war... dunno I think they'll all do well enough to make another console. And they're not killing themselves with bad press, they're killing themselves with exploding batteries LOL
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and ...no where near 1000... or 8000... kinda funny if anyone says omg, there are only 1000/8000 compatable... maybe the other ones aren't worthwhile>_>
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I understand everything, but i'm studiyng the greatest mystery os the world... the WOMEN
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