Dodece on 04 October 2007
Backwards compatibility or the lack there of is something that most Sony fans will flat out refuse to believe. Even if this new machine launches, and that is burned into the packaging. They will insist that Sony can patch in backwards compatibility. The reality however might be that it is a true physical limitation of this system. There is no programming law that says the Cell can do everything any other chip designed before could do only better. Perhaps those legacy chips are absolutely required. Perhaps they were designed in such a way that the Cell could not physically replicate the processes.
