Price cut? How useful is that?

[Darc Requiem]

madskillz said:

Dodece said:
@madskillz

Please lets not ruin the fantasy for them. Almost all of them seem oblivious to the fact the rumor specifically states no backwards compatibility. Yet some of them seem to think there will be some sort of emulation. That is a serious point you made who will buy a Playstation 3 that will not play games from the previous two machines. Supposedly even the hardware for emulation is being removed.

LOL ... thanks for my morning laugh. I know for a fact that the hardware emulation - the Emotion Engine - was last spotted in the PS3 60gb. FTR, the 80gb has software emulation, not hardware, and I can bet you my Wii that the 40gb won't have hardware either. It's a $27 chip that made the machine worth something, IMHO. Without it, you have a machine so seriously gimped it's not funny. I would actually pick up a 60gb, even a 20gb PS3 if I felt it was worth the price of admission. However, based on the lackluster lineup I've seen thusfar, I would rather pay bills and get caught up financially than dropping $500 for this gimped system.

The 80GB PS3 still has hardware emulation for the PS2's GPU. The Emotion Engine was removed but the Graphics Synthesizer is still present. The 40GB model is supposed to be without both the Emothion Engine and the Graphics Synthesizer. So unless they makes some serious upgrades the current software emulator won't have any backwards compatibility on the 40GB PS3.