Ziggy587 wrote:What I don't get is that if people are able to create PS2 emulators for the PS3, why the hell can't Sony do this and release it in a firmware update/download from PSN? Probably because they wouldn't be able to get 100% perfection, so they wouldn't want to release something like that... but they could just make a compatibility list and have it grow with future updates. How many more PS3's would sell if ALL PS3's could play PS2 games? I get making the cheaper consoles and taking the PS2 hardware out. But if emulation is purely software than how would that cost them any more money to manufacture a console? Maybe I'm missing something and don't fully understand, but I just wonder why.
Sony did have it nearly perfect. The original 80gb PS3's use software emulation only for playing PS2 games. Only the 60gb actually had PS2 hardware in it.
Ziggy587 wrote:What I don't get is that if people are able to create PS2 emulators for the PS3, why the hell can't Sony do this and release it in a firmware update/download from PSN? Probably because they wouldn't be able to get 100% perfection, so they wouldn't want to release something like that... but they could just make a compatibility list and have it grow with future updates. How many more PS3's would sell if ALL PS3's could play PS2 games? I get making the cheaper consoles and taking the PS2 hardware out. But if emulation is purely software than how would that cost them any more money to manufacture a console? Maybe I'm missing something and don't fully understand, but I just wonder why.
Sony did have it nearly perfect. The original 80gb PS3's use software emulation only for playing PS2 games. Only the 60gb actually had PS2 hardware in it.
The 80gb ones still had the Graphics Synthesiser chip in them. The EE chip was taken out, but the b/c wasn't totally software.
