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PS3 Details Slowly Emerging

Posted by Zonk on from the more-fuel-for-the-fire dept.

The Playstation Magazine (PSM) has a feature coming up in the next issue which discusses Sony's new console with a few new details. Both Maxconsole and Ferrago have a look at the piece. From the Maxconsole article: "We've received a lot of letters asking about how PS2 will be backwards compatible with PS2 and the original Playstation if it doesn't have memory card slot. Well, we have an answer, and it's both good and bad. First, the bad news: All of those old memory cards you have won't be usable with PS3. Okay then, wha's the solution? Sony has actually decided to only use Memory Stick Duo cards(the same format PSP uses) for PS3 save data. However, if you play a PS1 or PS2 game on PS3, the system will treat the Memory Stick like it's a normal memory card."

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  1. DexDrive by antifood · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The article mentioned that the DexDrive would be a possible solution to transfer game files. It's the first thing that came to my mind as well.

  2. Suicide by SewersOfRivendell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seems like Sony and MS are both playing "Let's see who can screw up the next console generation more!" This game may backfire if Nintendo's hardware beats expectations.

  3. Re:Oh come on people... by MasterOfMagic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Given people's obsession with finding out the secrets of the PS2 and the PS3 and given the lucrative market, I'm sure that GameShark or ActionReplay will come out with a device or software to do this migration for you. For example, a version of the SharkPort that works on the PS2 to take the games from it and move them to the PS3.

    Just because Sony won't support this in the console doesn't mean that it won't be supported by third parties.

  4. Re:All of Sony's electronic products exist just to by mwvdlee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When Sony released the first MS format, we already had CompactFlash and Secure Digital, both of which were, and still are, supperior to the MS format, never have had any specs changed and even this day come in faster packages with larger storage. They didn't need to breach the 128MB limit, because they didn't have that limit.

    The reason you give for Sony updating the specs, to break the 128MB limit, is exactly the reason MS is a crappy standard; if they designed the thing in a decent way to begin with, they would never have needed to update the specs.

    Seems like all things abreviated to "MS" suck ;)

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