I can't believe that people are unsure about this even on a site like vgchartz. There has NEVER been a PS3 with PS2 software emulation. However the European and some late US models came with part hardware and part software emulation, with one chip (I think it was the CPU being software emulated and the GPU being hardware, could be the other way around though, check the wikipedia article.)
I got the European version, and was there issues with some games yes, but it was a relatively long list of games you could play perfectly fine too.
So let me summarize, there has NEVER EVER been a PS3 with just software emulated PS2 support and this is why current PS3 systems got no PS3 support, because they got no PS2 hardware (to save costs) and Sony never managed to get the software emulator their worked on in-house performant enough to put it in again. There is no evil conspiracy here, Sony did not cut PS2 support to be able to sell the HD versions, in fact there income potential of being able to sell all PS2 games on PSN would be bigger. It just turned out to be technically infeasible.
Existing User Log In
New User Registration
Register for a free account to gain full access to the VGChartz Network and join our thriving community.
