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Sony: 1000 PS2 games backwards compatible with Euro PS3Dela @ Mar 01, 2007 11:18 | 14 comments
"The situation is changing everyday, but on March 23, we expect the list to include over 1000 PS2 titles," Sony's president of worldwide studios Phil Harrison revealed to blog ThreeSpeech. Sony has noted that consumers expect backwards compatibility as a standard feature, especially since the full support was originally promised by the company.
However, the console maker believes that early adopters will be more interested in PlayStation 3 titles than playing their old PS2 games, and by providing regular updates, a steady stream of classic games will be supported by the system. "We're working to introduce a resource to the Web to detail which titles will have backwards compatibility. And as we make firmware upgrades, we will be able to add to that list," said Harrison.
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Sony has confirmed that only a limited number of games will be playable on the European PlayStation 3 (PS3) console due to the removal of the hardware necessary for full support. However, the company said the number is supported titles is increasing every day and that by launch, about 1000 titles will be fully supported by the system.
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Comment by: i1der (Mar 01, 2007 11:52) How they screw up so much... sorry friends from Europe.... you still have to keep your PS2s on your stand, but if you are same as me will be no problem, cause i have a HDLoader and love this app, so I could play my games on my PS3 but I prefer to use my PS2 w/ HDLoader for now... no big.
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Comment by: dikdimond (Mar 01, 2007 12:02) And Sony criticized Microsoft for their backward compatibility strategy? At least Microsoft had the balls to let the consumer know pre-launch not every game Xbox game would run on a 360. Sony needs to rethink their strategy. I think it's BS to promote an aspect of a product(that makes it a high selling point,no less)and then months later begin to phase it out over "production problems". False advertisement |
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Comment by: johnblaze (Mar 01, 2007 12:22) I thought you were supposed to add functionality during the life of a console, not remove it. |
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Comment by: georgeluv (Mar 01, 2007 12:22) japan is getting back at europe for when they basicly forced them to open their boarders for trading or face a world class beat down back in the day. |
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Comment by: oofRome (Mar 01, 2007 12:45) 1,000 PS2 titles is a lot of games. This is really great news, I think. |
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Comment by: SProdigy (Mar 01, 2007 15:15) Awesome news! That means about 7000 less titles than the HALF that were "supposed" to work on PS3 at launch... right? |
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Comment by: Afroninja (Mar 01, 2007 16:05) well, better than nothing I guess. But still sony has made things wrong in europe. Well im not going to buy it now...maybe later. Ps2 is still useful to me for long time. But I have stupid question coz i'm too lazy to google ;D. PS3 supports PS games? because if not that sucks coz i love playin those great games again and again ;) |
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Comment by: hade (Mar 01, 2007 16:07) wow this is getting pretty silly now. how about before people get their panties in a bunch they wait and see what titles will and won't be on the BC list. then let the moaning commense. for all you know, every game you may still want to play could very well work on the ps3, so then what?? what could you possibly cry about now?? 1000 titles may be small when compared to the ps2 overall game library but it would seem to be more than any one person would probably own, let alone want to continue to play.
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Comment by: bowshky (Mar 01, 2007 17:10) O well shafted again, |
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Comment by: oofRome (Mar 01, 2007 17:13) Originally posted by SProdigy: are you saying there are 16,000 ps2 games? |
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Comment by: tabletpc (Mar 02, 2007 05:27) i warned people about this when i read my wii news channel they where talking about it and how many death threats sony has received over this announcement |
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Comment by: hade (Mar 03, 2007 03:56) the number of titles may be on its way up according to this statement and article from ign
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Comment by: ZippyDSM (Mar 05, 2007 15:49) more like 1000 PSX AND PS2 games but they don't lie.....no....anyway they need to polish the support and make it something that makes the PS3 shines. |
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