I don't get the negativity. Everyone pissed and moaned about the PS3 being so expensive. When they removed the PS2, they dropped the price. Anyone that didn't buy a PS3 with PS2 emulation had their chance. Then everyone whines about the PS2 hardware being removed. If they do end up offering it as a plug in box, surely this is a good thing? It seems Sony cannot win with most of you guys.
Maybe that's because, and just because the major percentage of the assembler forum members are Sega fanboys... Fixed +
Well like everyone said it's a patent. And often companies experiment with backward compatbility devices. I know nintendo was doing a survery in which they asked if people would be interested in an attachment for game cube that would allow you to play your 64 games on it and what would you be willing to pay. So I would imagine they had developed a device and decided not to fully go through with it. I'd imagine sony is doing the same and just filing a patent just in case.
To be honest, i think this is a bad move. Sony could just put some PS2 games on the PlayStation Store as "PS2Classics". God of War Collection and Ico / Shadow of Collosus collection is just that, but on disc and with trophy support. I bet they can just re-code the games to work as PS3 software, instead of making a PS2 emulator. It could take more time? Probably yes, but it's better than creating an add-on that most people won't get. And i won't even mention the costs of R&D for that add-on.
Given how many PS2 games exist, you'll never get them all ported. Plus just as in the old days, lots of projects after going into production have their source files lost or destroyed. I think it's a good idea. Even if every PS3 owner doesn't run out and buy it doesn't mean it can't be viable as a product. Considering how much they already invested in PS2 type hardware I doubt they'd really be throwing that much money at this problem as it can't be that hard. Also they could always sell ISOs (obviously not calling them that) on PSN and just note that it requires you to have the addon to play them. Sure the 360 has per title backwards compatibility with Xbox 1 but the quality varies. Some games have what I consider to be serious issues which will never be addressed. I'd rather the PS2 be supported by hardware in some fashion.
The reason why I was pissed that they removed the BC was that it was convenient to have one machine to play both PS2 and PS3 games. If you have to plug in a box that presumably is at least as big as a slim PS2, then that's not very convenient at all.
Again, not all PS2 games must be ported. For comparision, lots of great PS1 games aren't avaiable on the PSN to this date. Santa Monica Studio was making God of War III, and let Blue Point games port God of War / God of War II. And to be honest if a company destroys / lost the source files of a succesful and profitable game, they should be out of the business.
What are you talking about? USB 2.0 should be plenty fast to transfer the required data. The PS2 DVD access speed is not that high, and the required bitrate for transferring video and audio can't be that much. It might be a problem if we were talking the old USB 1.1 but USB 2.0 should be fine.
That or maybe we're against removing a feature and then selling an add on that adds the same feature for an additional price.. Kinda seems funny that some people are enjoying this feature at admission price, while others would be paying extra for it. You can suck Sony's cock for all I care, just don't complain later that they're charging you for the pleasure.
As much as I would love to play PS2 games on my PS3 slim, I feel the only people that would buy this would be those with obsessive compulsion disorders. Seems to me that Sony took one step back on this issue but they did state it would lower the price, either way I'd rather just play PS2 games on my fat PS2.
I think internal would be faster. A hard drive analogy look at HDAdvance vs USBAdvance. Oh wait a minute, HDAdvance/HDLoader is the best reason to keep the old Fat PS2!
First of all, they never existed in Europe. Second of all, the PS3 with just the software compatibility was expensive as fuck and there were barely any games back then.
I would rather just use one of my 5 PS2's, thx. This thing had better be both cheaper and much smaller than a PS2 Slim.
I believe the first European unit had the GPU in it. Correct me if I am wrong. They removed the BC AND dropped the price. They removed a feature and did not charge for that missing feature. Now, potentially, you can buy that feature for a price. It's really a simple logical thought process. You don't want to pay for it, then don't. If you want it, you pay what early adopters paid.
