"If you look at our competitors, one machine has zero backwards compatibility and one only has it with a third of their games but our product will always be 100% backwards compatible."
- Jack Tretton
This was the mantra reported by the Sony fans when the 360 was released, that theirs would play all PS2 games and the 360 only emulated XBOX 1 games. Now you need a secret decoder ring to find out if the PS3 will play PS2 games correctly. The 20GB/60GB does, the 80GB partially, the 40GB not at all. There are rumors of a 100/120GB, and nobody is sure of compatibility. Now the argument is "if you want to play PS2 games, buy a PS2, it is cheap."
I have a 60GB, and the only games I have for it is Q-Bert and the free GT download from PSN, other than those games I use it only for Blu-Ray. At least I know I will have BC, if I ever decide to play a PS2 game.
... And I am still waiting for that promised 2nd HDMI port.
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Nohone @ May 3rd 2008 4:36AM
@Mike:
"If you look at our competitors, one machine has zero backwards compatibility and one only has it with a third of their games but our product will always be 100% backwards compatible."
- Jack Tretton
This was the mantra reported by the Sony fans when the 360 was released, that theirs would play all PS2 games and the 360 only emulated XBOX 1 games. Now you need a secret decoder ring to find out if the PS3 will play PS2 games correctly. The 20GB/60GB does, the 80GB partially, the 40GB not at all. There are rumors of a 100/120GB, and nobody is sure of compatibility. Now the argument is "if you want to play PS2 games, buy a PS2, it is cheap."
I have a 60GB, and the only games I have for it is Q-Bert and the free GT download from PSN, other than those games I use it only for Blu-Ray. At least I know I will have BC, if I ever decide to play a PS2 game.
... And I am still waiting for that promised 2nd HDMI port.