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PS3 Details Slowly Emerging
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."
That solution is unacceptable to many of us who do not own a Windows PC. The DexDrive does not have macintosh support, so I am out of luck.
Oh, come now. Do you seriously expect us to believe any Mac users use PlayStations? There's no way a Mac user's brain could handle all the buttons on a Dual Shock, it'd explode (very creatively) or something.
Of course this does open up a massive niche for third party developers - the crossover device: A controller with no buttons, no D-pads, no analog sticks. It's just a reassuring white blob that you can hug to your chest and stroke/squeeze as if it did have buttons while not having to admit to them.