As long as they can charge extra for it. http://www.1up.com/news/sony-patents--backwards-compatibility-attachment
Is it okay, to say Fuck you SONY !? Since to me it is really like they are wanking it first, and then tossing it, anyway it really does irk me in the long. No wonder I buy my "shit" used.
Its a patent. One of tons that they file. People who get their panties in a bunch over a patent are ridiculous.
This. However, kudos to bringing this news up. At least we won't be so taken by surprise with whatever Sony decides to do with the BC... EDIT: Err, I just saw the article. Well, I'll wait until further notice. :X
WTF would the point be? Seriously it would just be a PS2 with no drive that attaches to your tv through the PS3... At this point you would be a moron if you didn't just buy a PS2 instead.
I would buy it for the simple reason that even if you connect a PS2 to an HDTV via component it still looks like shit. Sure, you can use an emulator like PCSX2, but it probably won't be as accurate as an official Sony emulator - especially if it uses real PS2 hardware as that patent suggests. But as Borman pointed out, it's just a patent, so I'm not going to get my hopes up.
Didn't Sony mock Microsoft for not having complete backwards compatibility at launch for the 360? And wasn't rumble sooo last gen? And wasn't the PS3 due to have dual HDMI 1080p outputs? And weren't multiple SKUs going to confuse the consumer? Oh wait...
I'm sorry but that emu will never ever be in a good enough state to really use on a PS3. No coder is really going to dedicate the amount of time it would take to rewrite a emu from scratch to fully use the SPUs. A straight up port of PCSX2 will run like dog****.
Mooh? Of course Sony wants PS2 BC.... but not as long as the original PS2 still sells! (consoles and games)
Exactly. Without some sort of hardware solution you will never have very good BC with PS2 on PS3. The PS3 is powerful sure, but emulating complex machines well is extremely demanding. Just look at BSNES. It's still not perfect, but as close as you will get on an emulator. And it's requirements are a far cry from what people thought was the norm of ZSNES/SNES9X needing something like a Pentium II. While it is just a patent, it does suggest their intent to do something.
it loks too cumbersome to be true... Talking about the emulation, i'm sure that Sony could do it if they really wished to. PCSX2, no matter how much i like it on pc, won't run on ps3. Figure that it can't even use more than 2 cores on pc! what use would it make of the cell?
Alternatively, Sony could be planning to make a PS3 backward compatibility attachment for the PS4. Or maybe just trying to stop competitors from doing something similar.
So basically, it's a PS2 without a DVD drive that plugs into a PS3? Of course, they could release it separately, make the price higher than a regular PS2's, add Wi-Fi and call it the PS2 Go. What could possibly go wrong?
It's not even that, if you look at the pictures from the patent. It's just a box that plugs into a "new generation game console" to allow backward compatibility. Everything is completely generic, other than that it has a DVD decoder emulator rather than Blu-ray or CD or anything like that.
