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European PS3 To Play Fewer PS2 Games

Posted by Zonk on from the give-a-little-get-a-little-more-money dept.

Mondrian_was_a_square writes "When Sony launches the PS3 in Europe, consumers there won't be getting the same thing that US and Japanese buyers picked up at launch—they'll be getting less. Sony has just announced that the new revision of the PS3 will be less backwards compatible with PS2 games. 'Sony is looking to decrease the production cost of the Playstation 3, and they have opted to replace dedicated hardware with software that will replace its functionality. The hardware had been providing full backwards compatibility of PS2 games, but Sony makes it clear that the new configuration will not offer the same level of support. Certain PlayStation 2 format software titles may not perform properly on this system, the statement reads.'"

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  1. PS9 will play all PS2 games just fine by davidwr · · Score: 0, Troll

    The PS9's emulation will be good enough. Good luck playing PS8 games though.

    Available 2078.

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  2. Ohh good move by finkployd · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, since the overpriced, over hyped PS3 is doing such a bang up job against the Wii, why not scale back one of its best features?

    Sony seems to have a strong need to shoot itself it the foot every chance it gets.

    Finkployd

  3. Assume- Ass of U and Me by Maxwell · · Score: -1, Troll

    The press release says nothing about reduced ps/2 support. Sony never said that. Period. And slashdot has launched another massive anti-sony tirade for no reason at all! Way to go!

    Just think, if you guys can kill Sony, then Microsoft will be free to take over the living room just like they did with the office! Won't that be great!?

    JON

  4. Aim at foot... pull trigger by Tragek · · Score: -1, Troll

    God, they just keep shooting themselves in the foot don't they? There was one of the reasons I ever even CONSIDERED a PS3, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Of course, I don't live in Europe. I just wonder, will these defanged PS3s slowly make their way to north american shores?

  5. price by minus_273 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I love the fact that they are paying the most too! hahah!

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  6. Believe it or not, Sony is worse than Microsoft. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't get this attitude of /. readers. Why do they just switch Microsoft with Sony when it comes to the consoles? (..not saying Sony doesn't do its fair share of shit.. like the whole PS3 Europe or rootkit debacle.. but that's still nothing compared to freaking Microsoft)


    I'd post this under my normal account, but I'm a Sony hardware programmer, and don't need this coming back to bite me.

    I thought Microsoft was the most evil and incompetent technology company on the planet...until I started working in the video game industry and started programming Sony hardware. Sony is ten times worse than Microsoft could ever be. You don't even want to know what PlayStation 2 programmers went through -- absolutely ungodly. The PS2 hardware makes Microsoft Windows look well-thought-out and robust. And now, on the PlayStation 3, we programmers are still waiting for decent (or even any) profiling tools, halfway complete documentation, halfway organized documenation, or any sort of sign that SCEI doesn't abjectly hate our guts. Don't get me started on the ridiculous performance problems of the PS3's RSX versus the X360's Xenon. That stupid GPU brings me to tears. They managed to take a nice nVIDIA GPU and fuck it up beyond all recognition.

    I hope that clarifies things a little for you.