Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Sony Ceases Production of PSOne

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the psnomore dept.

Gamespot has the news that Sony is no longer manufacturing the PSOne. From the article: "Despite the news, Sony representatives noted today that the end of production does not necessarily mean the end of availability. PS hardware and software are still selling in countries around the world. Even if original PlayStation systems and games are becoming slim pickings in the US, gamers likely won't be going without for long. As part of its PlayStation Business Briefing 2006, Sony last week announced that it is working on an emulator that would allow gamers to play PS titles on the PSP."

7 of 159 comments (clear)

  1. Told you so by tepples · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sony last week announced that it is working on an emulator that would allow gamers to play PS titles on the PSP."

    As I have been explaining since the PSP was first released in Japan, PS1 back-compatibility is the only way Sony can get the number of PSP-compatible titles anywhere near the number of titles compatible with its closest competitor, which can officially run 99 percent of GBA titles.

  2. Just emulate it! by dwbassett42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who cares if the actual PS one is no longer being sold? There are good emulators for the PSX out there, ePSXe being the best. Everything is freely downloadable and open-source, except for the actual BIOS files. (Which you'll probably end up getting via P2P) Once you're all set up, you can play any PSX game right on your computer, and it even supports linked play via inter/intranet.

    1. Re:Just emulate it! by Cal+Paterson · · Score: 4, Informative

      No! ePSXe is NOT open source!

      It's closed, and although the team haven't especially ruled out the possibility of making it Free Software, it is currently pretty much win32 only (although there is a GNU/Linux binary: it doesn't work very well).

      To my knowledge, the only Free PSX emulator is PCSX, but development has been dead a few years, and I have a feeling compatibility is poor.

  3. ps2 not 100% backward compatible by tepples · · Score: 5, Interesting

    get a freaking ps2 for 140 bucks.

    Not entirely. Several PS1 games do not work correctly on the PS2. I'm guessing this PSP emulator won't be 100% compatible either, just as the Nintendo DS isn't compatible with link-cable-heavy GBA titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords and Pokémon.

  4. Ironic by rtobyr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's ironic is that Sony is discontinuing the PSOne not long after Atari started reviving the Atari 2600 & 7800 (http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback/780 0).

  5. What PSP REALLY means by Doomstalk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please Stop Porting.

  6. What?!?!?!? by Zaatxe · · Score: 4, Funny

    How come the headline isn't "Sony announces a PSOne killer"?

    Slashdot is losing its traditions...

    --
    So say we all