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Mr Puggsly on 07 May 2010

Had Sony not removed the BC on the PS3 I can't help but think PS2 software would be much more relevant today. Plugging in multiple boxes is a pain in the ass and that killed the PS2.



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Rainbird on 07 May 2010

The PS2 died because people moved on to other things, and PS2 BC in the PS3 would have done nothing to change that. It would just have lessened HW sales and possibly boosted SW sales a little. It wouldn't really have changed anything.



papflesje on 07 May 2010

Sony bleeding even more money puggsly getting more ps2 games, hmmm :p



FF_Fanatic on 07 May 2010

the ps2 is ten years old now, most people had already moved along and it had nothing to do with BC. It's time to discontinue it.



Wonktonodi on 07 May 2010

selling 3 to 4% of the software each week when the console is 10 years old is pretty good for a dead console.



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Mr Puggsly on 07 May 2010
Rainbird said:
The PS2 died because people moved on to other things, and PS2 BC in the PS3 would have done nothing to change that. It would just have lessened HW sales and possibly boosted SW sales a little. It wouldn't really have changed anything.

People moved on because developers moved away from the PS2. If the PS3 still had PS2 BC, software sales would be better and that would encourage developers to continue creating PS2 games.



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Mr Puggsly on 07 May 2010
Wonktonodi said:
selling 3 to 4% of the software each week when the console is 10 years old is pretty good for a dead console.

And if every PS3 could play PS2 games it would be a considerably higher number.

Its not crazy to think people would dabble in the PS2 library if every PS3 gave you that option.



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Rainbird on 07 May 2010
Mr Puggsly said:
Rainbird said:
The PS2 died because people moved on to other things, and PS2 BC in the PS3 would have done nothing to change that. It would just have lessened HW sales and possibly boosted SW sales a little. It wouldn't really have changed anything.

People moved on because developers moved away from the PS2. If the PS3 still had PS2 BC, software sales would be better and that would encourage developers to continue creating PS2 games.

So you'd rather that developers kept making PS2 games instead of current generation games? All the current generation consoles are better consoles in both functionality and power, and there is no reason why developers should stick to old hardware when there is new and better hardware available. The move to the current generation machines would have happened no matter what.



Severance on 07 May 2010
Rainbird said:
The PS2 died because people moved on to other things, and PS2 BC in the PS3 would have done nothing to change that. It would just have lessened HW sales and possibly boosted SW sales a little. It wouldn't really have changed anything.

thats what the OP is saying.



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thelifatree on 07 May 2010
Mr Puggsly said:
Wonktonodi said:
selling 3 to 4% of the software each week when the console is 10 years old is pretty good for a dead console.

And if every PS3 could play PS2 games it would be a considerably higher number.

Its not crazy to think people would dabble in the PS2 library if every PS3 gave you that option.

The problem with that is most PS2 software is sold used now. Now maybe, it would have sold more new copies (which is what matters to sony) but, there's no way to say either way.