That would be amazing... maybe MS should look into this to combat "Sony's upcoming Pricecut"....

lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleemcast

Sony never won a lawsuit against them.

If this is true it might halt PS3s slide into irrelevance. Removing the backwards compatibility was the #1 mistake about the PS3s.

I am pretty sure they intentionally block backward compatibility to make more sales on PS2 (and PS3), using PS2 to cover the lose on PS3.

okay who honestly still wants backwards compatibility?

1. If you love your PS2 collection so much, keep your PS2 plugged in

2. If your new to Playstation and bought a PS3 then you have no PS2 collection, and therefore you don't need BC.

I have a 80GB PS3 that has the PS2 GPU in it so I have software emulation. I barely use the 80GB PS3 for backwards compatibility for PS2 games. I bought a PS2 Slim just 3 months ago cause I was fed up with the glitches some games had on the 80GB PS3.

If anyone cares about backwards compatibility so much they should just buy a PS2 Slim. They are $130US. Not hard to find. It's worth the admission if you want to still play PS2 games. I bought mine and love it without any problems. I'm currently playing God of War.

By now I tend to think they wil indeed leave it out until their next gen when the ps2 will be truly gone.
Though it would make sense to add it, it will fit in with their value added strategy they advertise. Or value re-added.

I'll be more interested in an emulator though if it were a way to bypass region locking, because it makes little sense when you can buy a ps1 game from any of the psn stores and play it on your ps3, but can't do that if you already own the game, and this applies to something like 70% of my ps1/ps2 games unless I'm to buy three ps3s.

Upscaling does feel good though, I loved Odin Sphere on the ps3. Then again I too have the 80gig software emulation one, and when it got stuck a few hours into Tales of the Abyss, I just went on to play the undub on my ps2.

I'm stumped as of why Sony doesn't seem to think that much of it, but they have done so little for ps1 titles on the psn (outside of Japan at least).

Didn't the maker of Bleem!, the PS1 emulator, got sued by SONY and lost? True, they charged money for it and as far as I know the maker of  *****, another PS1 emulator, never got sued because of it. Or any other one for that matter, even the one that let you play SNES and Genesis game on the PS2, which I really can see Nintendo and SEGA having problem with.

As far as software emulation got, I think you are right, it may well be the fact that the PS3 simply isn't powerful enough to emulate the PS2. Looking at *****, the recomended spec are pretty high and the ideal one are from speculated hardware, one that doesn't even exist yet. Sure the emulator isn't optimised yet but still...

It is probably to difficult to emulate. The PS-2 was well known for the dirty tricks that were used to implement some effects. So you can't simply translate the orders but you have to emulate at least parts of the circuitry.

Sony has been rumored to be working on PS2 software emulation since 2005.
In fact, the PS3 was never supposed to have PS2 hardware in it, it was supposed to be all software emulation.
People assumed they gave up when backwards compatability was completely removed from new PS3 models.