That isn't the case for most of us. I have a ps2, so I don't worry much about it, but I would welcome PS2 ports to PS3 just cause (2) it's a convenient thing.

well if the leave all the assets the same thats true, but is only easy for sony not for the publisher and developers, is a lot of work to make a game again, with emulation only sony has to work to get the amulator running

i dont see why you guys think porting is better than emulation, emulation is better for devs and publisher since the only have to worry about the legal stuff, there is no extra investment

Because there are hundreds of millions of used discs of which the publishers get nothing for.

I have a feeling that once

A) the PS2 (hardware) market is completely dried up

and

B) There are far less used copies available at places like gamestop

That software emulation may pop up. But we'll see.

It's not emulation, those 60 gig models actually have an emotion chip in them. So essentially that model of PS3 had a PS2 inside.

I didn't say that it's better!  in fact emulation is better for the customer because you can buy a lot of games for almost nothing  but do you think  games like god of war 1 and 2 would have sold another million copies if there still would be a BC ? I don't think so

and also they wouldn't have made a gow collection if it was that expensive or hard to make

mystery of the 'incredibly large home console' solved!! good job luke lol

OT: I never owned a ps2 and will prob eventually pick one up if they don't bring some sort of BC back. (hopefully in terms of collections a la god of war style) which brings us to the point a few others have said. Sony is probably waiting till the ps2 is totally off the market. It's the most profitable path for them and developers, and an easy and efficient way for ppl to pick up new and improved old games. (WO new and old at the same time, I just blew my mind). This of course would be a big piss off to ppl who want the updated versions and already have the originals. (at least i'd be pretty pissed if i had gow 1 and 2 on the ps2 and then they released this collection)

I don't even play ps2 games anymore. my last two ps2 games was Okami and FF12

i'm willing to bet companies would much rather do what santa monica studios did with GOW I and GOW II, but that is fine by me as long as they bring tropies :):)