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| Gen 1973th Post
 
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|  "good news everyone regarding PS3compatibility"
, posted Tue 2 Sep 17:30:
PS3 will be back compatable with PS2 and PS1!
That's the meat of it but here's the page long version:
http://gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=pub&aid=2171
SCE boss confirms PS3 backwards compatibility
Rob Fahey 14:23 02/09/2003
World not exactly in shock, but nice to know all the same
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will feature backwards compatibility with the PS2 and PSone, ensuring continued support for older software formats in the new hardware.
Speaking to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Kutaragi-san attributed some of the success of the PS2 to the console's ability to play PSone games as well as PS2 native titles, stating that this was "a matter of security... [PS2] offers a sense of insurance because it is compatible with PSone and DVD-Movies."
This trend - started by Sony with the PS2, as backwards compatibility in home consoles was certainly not the norm before then - is set to continue with the PS3, which will offer emulation for the PS2 and hence for the PSone.
"PSone runs on the PlayStation 2 through emulation rather than actual hardware. PlayStation 3 will offer the same compatibility for PS2 software and the format will continue forever," he explained.
It's expected that Microsoft's successor to the Xbox will also offer backwards compatibility with current hardware - although the recently announced decision to partner with ATI rather than NVIDIA may cause trouble in this respect, according to some graphics experts.
"ATI's hardware runs the same sort of pixel shaders and so on that the NVIDIA chipset does," one graphics programmer working on Xbox games explained to us, "but getting the hardware to exactly mimic the behaviour of an NVIDIA part could be very tricky... It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft can get Xbox 2 to play Xbox games without glitches, especially ones that have been written to tie in closely with the console's specs."
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| Olivier Hagué
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|  "Re(1):good news everyone regarding PS3compati"
, posted Tue 2 Sep 18:22:
Last time I heard, it was supposed to be compatible with PlayStation 2 games, _not_ with PlayStation ones.
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This trend - started by Sony with the PS2, as backwards compatibility in home consoles was certainly not the norm before then - is set to continue with the PS3, which will offer emulation for the PS2 and hence for the PSone.
"Hence"?
Is it just me, or does it looks like whoever wrote this piece may well be _speculating_ about the PlayStation compatibility?
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"PSone runs on the PlayStation 2 through emulation rather than actual hardware. PlayStation 3 will offer the same compatibility for PS2 software and the format will continue forever," he explained.
Nothing about PlayStation compatibility, here...
But if PlayStation games run on the PlayStation 2 "through emulation", maybe there's still hope, I guess?...
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| DarkZero 257th Post
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| "Re(2):good news everyone regarding PS3compati" , posted Tue 2 Sep 20:05
This article already appeared on Slashdot Games, which has a somewhat higher quality discussion than Slashdot itself usually has, and after a fairly good discussion of the article, everyone was left THOROUGHLY confused.
See, here's the problem: the PS2 does not emulate the PlayStation. Instead, it has the chips that are specific to the PlayStation integrated onto the PS2 hardware. When you put a PSOne game in, it uses the original PSOne chips and combines them with the more generic portions of the PS2 hardware. In other words, there's both a PSOne and a PS2 inside the PS2's casing and no emulation is taking place at all.
"PSone runs on the PlayStation 2 through emulation rather than actual hardware. PlayStation 3 will offer the same compatibility for PS2 software and the format will continue forever," he explained.
This is the really confusing bit. He states a fact that is utterly WRONG ("PSOne runs on the PS2 through emulation") and then uses that incorrect statement to support his conclusion: "PS2 will offer the same compatibility". This makes the statement contradictory. If the PS3 emulates the PS2 hardware, then it doesn't offer the same compatibility that the PS2 does. If the PS3 offers the same compatibility that the PS2 does, then it doesn't emulate the PS2 hardware.
Most people are assuming that the PS3 will emulate the PS2 hardware, and that since the PSOne hardware is directly connected to the PS2 hardware, it will naturally emulate PSOne games. However, there are a couple of other assumptions that you could make from the information given, one being that the writer is completely wrong about the whole emulation thing and that the PS3 will just have a couple of PS2 chips on it like the PS2 did with the PSOne, and thus not play PSOne games.
It will probably play games from all three PlayStation consoles, but we'll have to wait for further clarification to really know for sure.
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| Kaepora
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| "Re: Good news regarding PS3 compatibility" , posted Wed 3 Sep 18:28
It works with HDTV, it plays DVD movies, it'll most liely have networking (wireless?) built-in, it'll probably have TiVO functionality, it does this Cell Technology thing with other equipment, it'll link up to the PSP, it is backwards-compatible with the PS2 (and, logic dictates, the PSOne)...
At this point, I'm wondering if the PS3 will be compatible with PS3 games.
Though, as a side note, I suppose we'll probably end up with "Dual Shock 3" controllers that look and feel almost exactly like the ones we have now. *sigh*
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