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PS3 Price, Compatibility In Question
Lots of rumours out there right now about the next-gen consoles. It's in question, right now, exactly how backwards compatible the PS3 will be. Gamespot reports: "When responding to questions about whether or not the SCPH-75000's backwards-compatibility issues heralded similar problems with Sony's next-gen console, she demurred. 'It's hard to say the PlayStation 3 will be 100 percent backwards compatible but as we said earlier this year we aim to make it so as much as possible,' Sakamoto said," Meanwhile, 1up.com wonders exactly how pricey the console will be. From that article: "In the past months, the Japanese blog CoolGamer has been a dependable source of early information regarding the Japanese game market. Not once has their news turned out to be a false lead, so that's why it was pretty important today when the site updated with a small notice saying 'PS3 price set below 40000 Yen,' which is about $400 at current exchange rates."
It's more like $350. Even google agrees. $50 is going to be quite a difference when it comes to console pricing too.
When the GBA was released, it was (and still is) touted for being able to play regular GB and GBC games. However, there were a handfull of games (I can't find the exact list right now) that were buggy or had sound problems on the GBA. This didn't matter, though, as the games were from the early GameBoy days and not that popular.
I think we'll see similar things with the PS3, with the same result. Some of the early PS1 games and a few PS2 games won't work quite right on the PS3, but as long as they aren't any of the popular games, no one will really care (except those that own the then-useless games).