As I was reading through my rather extensive and scary list of site feeds yesterday evening, I stumbled upon this post up over at Scrawl. One of their writers works at GameStop and had a visit from their friendly neighborhood Sony rep recently. I would advise against taking this as fact until we hear something more official, but the Sony rep was reported as pointing out that both a price drop and backwards compatibility for our sleek, sexy PS3s are coming soon.
This really doesn’t strike me as surprising, considering all the talk about Sony patenting Emotion Engine emulation technology (this is what is under the hood of a PS2) for integration into the PS3’s cell processors via a firmware update. Could this be the fruits of Sony’s labor? If this is indeed the case, let’s just hope Sony’s definition of “soon” isn’t the same as Blizzard’s.
This would restore my faith in Sony and make me reconsider getting a PS3.
[...] Ninja is rumormongering that PlayStation 3 backwards compatibility with the PlayStation 2 may be returning [...]
w8 so are existinf ps3s going to get backwards compatability or only new ones
If this rumor is true, all existing PS3s should get an update at some point that would allow PS2 emulation, much like they allow PS1 emulation through software now. As I mentioned in the post, Sony patented technology to allow them to emulate the PS2’s Emotion Engine on the PS3. If this rumor is even true is still up in the air, and they way they go about it could also change. You never know.
hang on a sec people some websites reckoned there were strong evidence that it was going to be announced at tonights gamescon and it wasnt BUT sony was supposed to announce it last game show they have the (tokyo?) if im correct coming up why spoil it all in one go they might keep it for (tokyo?)