Phil Harrison promises 1,000 backwards compatible titles for Europe
This should be the end of the backwards compatibility information. First, we told you about Sony getting rid of a portion of backwards compatibility, then we mused that the decrease in manufacturing costs due to the change may lead to a price drop by the end of the year. Sony recently talked about the issue and RumorReporter said that in addition to this, summer may yield a new firmware update that upscales PS2 and PS-One games to 720p or 1080i. There. Now it's all in front of you. Let's move on to what Phil Harrison said to the semi-official ThreeSpeech in an exclusive interview.
Phil Harrison said this about the whole thing: "The situation is changing every day, but on March 23, we expect the list to include over 1,000 PS2 titles." That's about eight times as many as I own. He goes on: "It's very easy to over-react. We're working to introduce a resource on the Web to detail which titles will have backwards compatibility. And as we make firmware upgrades, we will be able to add to that list." There's more to the interview, but it's mostly stuff we've cruised over the past four or five posts about it. Feel free to check out the interview if you want to learn more.
