Should Sony drop the PS2 to focus more on the PS3?

[Dragonos]

CatFangs806 said:

I am glad, though, that you brought that up. The PS3 did have somewhat backwards compatibility with a lot of PS1 and PS2 games. But they took that out of new models recently to cut costs. Although I fail to see how moddifying the PS3 laser to play PS3 games only saves them that much money, though. I did hear there's an update for certain PS3 models, but not others. Smells like a ripoff.

The early versions (as in, launch hardware) had hardware backwards compatibility with PS2 games (and i assume PS1 games). the second batch had software compatibility for PS2 games, while the current batch doesnt even have that. I find it hard to believe that software emulation for the PS2 would cost them all that much to implement on the PS3 so i would immediately discount that as justification (even if it does add a considerable cost, i doubt its more than 50 bucks, at which i would imagine most people would pay 50 bucks for it to come with PS2 emulation). no, i would think the reason why BC was dropped for the PS3 was simply to keep the PS2 alive, which continues to be a steady source of revenue.