*RUMOR* Ability to play PSP games on the PS3 coming.

[Icyedge]

Rainbird said:

Kantor said:
That's rather foolish. They make a profit on the PSP, and they want to sacrifice PSP sales for PS3 sales?

One way this could work is if you have to register your PSP first, so you don't have to play on that god awful screen.

Again, we don't know when this will release (if at all), and as nordlead already pointed out, people seem to be buying the PSP for reasons other than gaming (legal gaming anyway). If that is the case, then the PS3 being able to play PSP games should not affect the sales of PSPs (not a lot anyway), but rather add to software sales (and with the current PSP software sales, Sony has good reason for making this move).

Now imagine that the PSP sales are pretty much dead, and the non-BC PSP2 releases in a month. What should stop Sony from releasing this at that point?

Personally, I think that what little damage this might cause will easily be mitigated by added software sales.

 

Agreed, very good points!