When well sony bring back the full BC in the ps3?

[NJ5]

RPG said:

NJ5 said:

It's anyone's guess... It could well never happen, since it currently requires special PS2 hardware (therefore a bigger motherboard) which is costly. Increasing the cost of the PS3 is certainly not something Sony wants to do, at least not for a few years.

On the other hand, who knows if they could implement a software-only emulator at some point? Again, it's anyone's guess. There's not much information one can use to make a good prediction AFAIK.

 

 

Are you sure about that? I remember the launch PS3's in the UK only being able to play a few PS2 games due to using software emulation and not having the PS2 chip unlike the NA launch PS3's.

That's what I meant. Full BC currently requires a PS2 chip (the graphical chip if I remember correctly).

From memory, it went like this:

Full BC PS3s have: PS2 CPU + PS2 graphical chip

Non-full BC PS3s have: PS2 graphical chip (emulating the CPU on the Cell)

PS3s with no PS2 BC don't have any PS2 chip of course.

EDIT - A better way to state it is "full BC requires two PS2 chips, all BC requires at least one chip". Apologies for any confusion.