If Sony implement and give new PS3's backwards capability, for the actually disk, I would finally be able to justify a PS3 purchase.

I think this will be most likely for downloadable PS2 games, and probably games that are well known / greatest hits. I wouldn't be surprised to see such games as the MGS series, God of War Series, Kingdom Hearts games, Final Fantasy series, and other PS2 games that sold very well downloadable to the PS3 in the near future.

If you think about it, there was a survey about a Collector's edition of God of War 3, and one off the options was to have God of War and God of War 2 on Blu-ray disc with God of War 3 ...

Looks like PS3 will have the undisputed best lienup pretty soon.

I can't wait till Sony announces backwards compability with PS2 games!

The catch tho it will only be PS2 games that you can buy from PSN which will make your hard copies of your PS2 games obsolete anyway! Lol

I bought a PS2 Slim a year ago for $130, knowing its $99 now. My problem is solved for playing PS2 games

Well I was suspecting for the long time that BC might return at the moment when they cease PS2 official support.

The ps3 can already emulate the EE, as shown through units with partial ps2 BC. The issue lies with the GS (Graphics Synthesizer) from the ps2.

Of course, this may be some NEW method of emulation, that will allow for full emulation of ps2 hardware and other bonuses like added AA and better upscaling (over what we've seen in hardware BC units). It could be that they've figured out how to emulate the GS, and are also emulating the EE in a new way that involves using teh entire Cell.

These could theoretically lead to in-game XMB with ps1/2 BC as well.

hmmm, it looks like what they may be doing is trying to creat code references so that when the PS2 game code gets decompiled, it can then be recompiled to PS3 specific code.

A good example is transparency, PS2 couldn't do it via hardware but the huge bandwidth of the GS allowed developers to achieve it via software, so this emulator would recompile it so that the code for transparency is now done by the RSX hardware and thus alleviating the need for huge bandwidth requirements of the old technique.

In any case, this is something Sony wants and even if it doesn't make it this generation it'll be here for next generation seeing as how powerful nostalgia is and the willingness of consumers to re-buy games of yesteryear.

From neogaf:

Still with that?

OT: Ive wanted a PS3 for a long ass time now but even if I had the money I wouldnt buy one until it had b/c. So this is a good thing for me.