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Avinash_Tyagi on 24 January 2008

Probably will take it away, maybe try to addi n software emulation at some point



 

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twesterm on 24 January 2008

Why do you care about BC? Nobody plays games on their PS3, they watch BluRay! :P



 

supermario128 on 24 January 2008

Just keep your PS2 as well.




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Chrizum on 24 January 2008

I got a (60GB) PS3 for a number of reasons. One of them was BC. It's one of the many flawed decisions Sony has made recently. They will lose a lot of potential customers with this idiocy of theirs.



NFGBlinkAC on 24 January 2008
twesterm said:
Why do you care about BC? Nobody plays games on their PS3, they watch BluRay! :P

That's the only thing I don't do with my PS3, as well as not using the web browser 90% of time lol >.> <.< 

Would you consider in-game cut scenes BluRay for PS3 exclusive games? lol 



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tk1989 on 24 January 2008

i will not even consider a PS3 unless it comes with a reasonable form of BC. I never owned a PS2, but there are plenty of PS2 games which im sure i would purchase if i had a PS3 with BC.

For me, No BC = no sale whatsoever.



jjseth on 24 January 2008

Well, it's BC with PS1 games so they won't get rid of it totally. And soriku, software emulation means exactly what PS1 BC is right now. They have no PS1 hardware in the PS3, the processor and the software reads the disks and converts the data into a playable game. Sure, there will always be hiccups with some games along the way, but the majority will be fine and play as they normally would on a PS2.

I expect Sony in the next year or less to release software emulation that would make all PS3's BC. They put the no BC sticker/disclaimer on the 40gb's just in case they cannot figure out a way to emulate the PS2 games completely on the software on the PS3. I've thought all along that they will finally get that problem licked and have the software emulation on the PS3 fully.



 


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ikilledkenny on 24 January 2008

I think they will keep it in some form or another, but they could go to software emulation instead of using the Emotion Engine. They could be preparing to implement YET ANOTHER SKU.


twesterm on 24 January 2008
jjseth said:
Well, it's BC with PS1 games so they won't get rid of it totally. And soriku, software emulation means exactly what PS1 BC is right now. They have no PS1 hardware in the PS3, the processor and the software reads the disks and converts the data into a playable game. Sure, there will always be hiccups with some games along the way, but the majority will be fine and play as they normally would on a PS2.

I expect Sony in the next year or less to release software emulation that would make all PS3's BC. They put the no BC sticker/disclaimer on the 40gb's just in case they cannot figure out a way to emulate the PS2 games completely on the software on the PS3. I've thought all along that they will finally get that problem licked and have the software emulation on the PS3 fully.

 Man, you're like a top.

Let me ask you this: do you think they should have waited until they actually got full or near full software emulation working for PS2 games before they removed it from the PS3? 



 

tk1989 on 24 January 2008
ikilledkenny said:
I think they will keep it in some form or another, but they could go to software emulation instead of using the Emotion Engine. They could be preparing to implement YET ANOTHER SKU.
That would be a bitch...