I owned a PS1 and an N64 at the same time, then a PS2 and a Gamecube at the same time. I still play my Gamecube games on my Wii and PS2 and PS1 games on my PS3. I like that I don't have to give up playing my games because I only have two available connections to my TV, it's bad enough I can't play Guitar Hero on the PS3 and have to keep my PS2 hooked up and use the memory cards, which by the way I have like 6 of and have imported them all onto my PS3's HD.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea...but backwards compatibility was definitely one of the reasons I bought a PS3, I can buy any game that ever came out on a Sony system in this country and play it now, I can play 3 different generations of my physical library of games on my PS3. You can't tell me that's not cool. I can pop in Battle Arena Toshinden, the actual copy of the first game I got when I first got my PS1, in 1995-96, and play it right now, with my original memory which is on the hard drive.
