Sony: NO PS2 Backwards Compatibility On PS3, Never, Ever,

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sega4life said:

This was one of the articles..

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Rumour: Full PS3 backwards compatibility only weeks away

Wednesday, 01 Jul 2009 11:51

PlayStation 3

As Sony's backwards compatibility patents make the rounds, a German website has supposedly gained comment from a Sony employee.

We were quick to point out that the unearthed Sony patents for the emulation of the PS2's CPU (Emotion Engine) on the PlayStation 3 did not imply full backwards compatibility. This was for the simple fact that the PS3 had already been software emulating the Emotion Engine since early-2007 when it was ripped out of European PS3s.

However, the fact remained that the patent was filed in December 2008 with a publication date of only last week.

This brings us to the German website DemoNews.de, which claims to have gained comment from a Sony employee stating that full backwards compatibility is coming to US PS3's as a firmware update in the "next few weeks."

A European release date for the update has not yet been determined, but if there's any credibility in this news, we expect it drop at around the same time as the US update. Pinch of salt people, big pinch of frickin' salt.

Seems doubtful due to timing, but I'm still of the notion that it's only a matter of time as to when we'll be seeing PS2 games for sale on PSN (via software recoding/emulation).

Some seem determined to make an issue of there being no PS2 hardware compatibility, but to be blunt, many of these people likely never owned a PS2 in the first place, meaning they have no PS2 games and never had any intention of buying a PS3, regardless of PS2 compatibility, even if it were free.

So the "when they bring back PS2 compatibility for under $200 I'll buy one" would likely become "when it's $99 I'll buy one" which is essentially telling SCE that they don't really want these people's business at this point in the game.