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Sony to bring PS2 compatability to PS3
I know what you’re thinking, fantastic news! And you are definitley right, this is actually something Sony should have been done a long time ago but it’s good to see Sony taking strides, however, this is still, sadly, in the rumour zone.
A patent discovered by Siliconera has revealed that Sony may be rethinking the PS3’s current lack of backwards compatability. Essentially the patent is for a technology that would allow the PS3’s cell chip to translate code from the PS2’s emtion engine. We are talking full reduplication, meaning in theory you’d be able to play every PS2 game released.
As many of you are aware the PS3 began with backwards compatabilty but it was removed in later models, to begin with Sony argued that this was to cut production costs but it was later revealed that the actual reason was that Sony were worried by slow PS3 game sales as many PS3 users were buying the cheaper PS2 counterparts. In a bid to stop this Sony removed the PS3’s backward compatability, essentially forcing players to use PS3 software. Now the PS3 has been out a while so, perhaps, Sony feel more confident with software sales and add to this the large user demand for PS2 support then it would be a smart move, as not only would it allow current users access to the PS2 libary but PS2 users who upgrade their consoles maybe be more likely to do so when knowing they can bring keep their PS2 catalogues.
Some critics are saying not to get too excited as they belive the patent is just for Sony’s forthcoming PS2 title downloads as opposed to actual full disk playback. I have faith for the latter and as the old idiom goes; ‘better late than never’.
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