Feb 13
Will There Be VC On Your PS3?
That’s a pretty sensationalist headline up there, so let me take a step back and say, no there won’t be any Nintendo games on your PS3. There is good news though for those of you who thought your PS2 gaming days were over on your new PS3, after Sony announced that they were pretty much abandoning backwards compatability in hopes of lowering the PS3’s price point a bit more. In an interview with EGM, PlayStation Network director Eric Lempell hints that there are ways that PS2 games may still be playable on the PS3.
When asked if the PS3 was going to offer PS2 games through the Playstation Store, Lempel responded, “We haven’t talked about that yet, but there are possibilities through technology and software emulation to make that possibles.” The problem, from what I can gather, is that you can’t just plug in and play the game on the PS3. Special things would need to be done to make PS2 games work (special things that can’t be done with original Playstation games at all) on the PS3. In the end, we’d be getting charged for a library of games we probably already own and could play for free on any PS3 with backward compatability. I guess something is better than nothing, but at this point this is another place where the massive technological leaps the PS3 took is hindering more than helping.
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Everyone should have just bought the 60 gig which as we all know is the superior model.
And this is why I’m glad I searched for a used 60 GB version rather than buying a 40 GB version.
I don’t mind my 80 GB model with software BC. Haven’t had any problems yet.