Will the PS4 have PS2 backwards compatibility?

[MARCUSDJACKSON]

HappySqurriel said:

MARCUSDJACKSON said:
i didn't know there were such a thing as downloadable disk!

to make a profit, i hope not. Sony has spoiled its fans for far to long.

It isn't that it would be bad for Sony to do it, in fact it would be good if any of the companies provided backwards compatibility to the PS2/XBox/Gamecube generation of consoles; but it really isn't practical.

Given a system that was 2 to 4 times the processing power of the PS3 and all the technical documentation for the PS2 a small team of qualified developers could produce an emulator in a couple of years that had a high level of compatibility with the PS2. Unfortunately, to get past being an "OK" emulator and being really good would require testing of a wide variety of games (hundreds of games), careful logging of inconsistencies between the emulator and the physical hardware, and lots of bug fixing; which would take a much larger team several years to complete.

After Sony or Microsoft spend tens of millions of dollars to do this, how many additional sales will they really get from this?

no idea, but i see your point, which is wht i was getting at.