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

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Dragonos said:

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.

First batch had complete hardware compability but even second batch had some PS2 chips in them. CPU was emulated by software but GPU still had hardware compability. Only in the last batch they removed last PS2 chpis. There never has been complete software emulation for PS2 in PS3.