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Kasz216 on 20 August 2008
oxford-gamer said:
Nickelbackro said:

I am so bummed over the removal of BC, that makes a PS3 purchase at the end of gen for me very unlikely. Sony lost an end of gen customer in me, and i will probably buy a 360 come 2012-2014 unless BC is restored.

Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I just find it hard to be excited for an increase in HDD space at the sacrifice of the playback of over 1700 games.

you own 1700 games? With every year passing, BC becomes more and more obsolete. Unless you wanted to catch up on the games you missed last generation, or if you didn't own a ps2, BC is not a big deal. All Sony can do now is attempt to assimulate the sku's, so they become easier to understand for consumers.

 


I owned a PS2... and it's important to me.  Of course that's because i' have a vast library of PS2 games and I realize the fact that PS2's weren't made for the long hall.  (Almost as bad as 360s they are.)

It's why i'll probably pick up a used PS3 instead of new. Likely a 20 gig model once people stop acting like dinks charging more despite it's shortcomings because it's the most limited version.



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greenmedic88 on 20 August 2008

Somehow, I think Sony will find a way to re-integrate PS2 compatibility into the PS3 platform AFTER PS2 hardware production stops.

As for when that will be is anybody's guess. Sometime after PS2 hardware sales begin to flatline, keeping it in production is not longer profitable and soft development slows to a trickle, but that could still be years from now.

It still seems very unlikely that Sony would just let the entire platform and the thousands of softs that were published for it stay stranded. A PC emulator hardly seems impossible in the future, but an emulator on the PS3 obviously makes more sense.

I'm hoping I won't have to buy a replacement PS3 for the 60GB I'm using, but eventually I'll switch it out with a low power, low profile redesign when they are introduced. Probably won't happen for a good 2-3 years though.