We really hate to do this, but we swear Sony must honestly think consumers and the press have the memories of goldfish. Let's just take it back to the PlayStation brand for two seconds. Sony's own Phil Harrison clearly and distinctly said in a 2006 interview with GamePro, "Backwards compatibility, as you know from PlayStation One and PlayStation 2, is a core value of what we believe we should offer. And access to the library of content people have created, bought for themselves, and accumulated over the years is necessary to create a format. PlayStation is a format meaning that it transcends many devices -- PSOne, PS2, and now PS3." A little over a year and "core values" go right out the window. Who needs backwards compatibility anyway when you've got 65 games to sell?
[Via PS3 Fanboy]
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"the PS3 will feature backwards compatibility with PS and PS2 games from day one. I'm emphasizing this because, from what I hear, there are some platforms that haven't been able to completely do this. It's costly in terms of hardware, but we'd rather invest firmly on compatibility from the beginning, rather than to have issues later on."
Kinda hard to weasel out now?
Was the 360 lambasted like this when it was announced that its BC was horrible at best?
If you really need to play your PS2 games. Keep the PS2 you already have.
It is blown way out of proportion.
The 360 Core can be upgraded with a hard drive to get backwards compatibility.
What can PS3 40g owners do? Nothing.
Matt B, you're joking right?
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But what do I care, I'm covered if I feel the need to play a PS2 game since I bought a PS3 that does have BC.
But you kids enjoy the usual "Circlejerk of the dorks"!!!
Peace bitches, and most of you are just that.
No, and yet they want you to re-buy all your favorites again on the wii. That sounds acceptable to me.
The lot of you are just a bunch of hypocrites.
Did Microsoft say that backwards compatibility was a primary concern, and a core value for the brand? NEVER.
Did Sony say that BC was a primary concern, and a core value for the brand? YES.
Seriously, you people are unpleasable.
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Guys...can't find anything else to do?
though you're right, i should finish bioshock so i can start halo 3
Sony should have just kept their mouths shut after announcing this detriment to their brand value. To make things worse, they put out a figure of "65 games" for people to buy for the PS3. 65 PS3 games available isn't something to be proud of, especially with a back-library of thousands of PS and PS2 games that they just made UNavailable to the system.
Sure, they found a way to drive their cost down. But it's at the cost of their consumer's understanding of the PS3. Multiple SKUs is bad enough (lookin at MS too!) to confuse the customers. But when you take away a /strength/ of, not only a product, but a whole brand, you're just asking for a world of hurt.
I wasn't going to buy a PS3, but since my 360 is being warranteed for the 5th time, I might as well take my anger out on someone other than microshaft.
sorry...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA oh man... Seriously. I wonder if consumers could start a class action for a vendor mismanaging something so bad. It's pretty amazing. Do they not realize how popular the PS2 really is? They NEED the backwards compatibility to sell this system. PERIOD.
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Sony has lost it's vision and is in a panic mode that's causing them to act like a grownup that's trying to be cool to their teen kids' friends. They're tripping over themselves TRYING to do the right thing, and they keep messing it up.
Sony: Drop the Blu-Ray drive, add backward compat HARDWARE, drop the price, apologize to the entire world, have the CEO lay on a sword (which he isn't deserving of really), and get ON with making frickin' money... will ya?
Damn.
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Really. Who cares? I've the PS3 (250GB) for BR movies, demos, PSN games and what, the whole of 3 games. Maybe by Christmas, I'll have 5 games (Uncharted and CoD4). 6 if a find a deal on Warhawk.
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I rapped on the Wii's compatibility on the grounds that you still had to buy extra hardware: controller and memory card. THIS, on the other hand, is just downright pathetic, even if we were already expecting it as soon as the 40GB rumors started circulating.
65 is close to 4,000 I guess.
Managers are not the smartest people in the world.
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Here's the part that worries me. What he seems to be saying is that they're cutting all b/c updates and support on the PS3 in the future. This is apparently the case in Europe, anyway: http://kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/scee-ps3-60gb-nixed-for-uk-too-307651.php
If that's what they're doing, it sucks even more than it seems at first glance. This is a lot of bullshit.
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That simple.
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(This will most likely be the only time I will agree with Fernando.)
Wow. Sony must REALLY be blowing it.
You weren't going to buy a PS3 from the start, so why do you care what Sony does?
This is what kills me. The minute Sony drops BC...the XBOTS come out of the woodwork as if teh Haloz was broken. The bots do a death dance every time a "bad" news story comes out about Sony. They were all playing PS1 and PS2 back in the day....but all of a sudden, Playstation isn't good enough. Or it's too expensive. Or it doesn't have enough game in it's first 10 months. Or there isn't teh rumbles.
Asswipe....taking out backwards compatibility can in NO WAY be compared to a system BREAKING DOWN(RROD) after several months of normal use. It's unbelievable that Microshaft can actually get away with what they do to consumers. And trust me, knowone is more upset about RROD than me. I would gladly pay up to get a 360, once I'm assured 100% that it's not going to BREAK DOWN(RROD). But until then Microshit doesn't get one red cent from me.
When Sony says that BC is out, this can in no way be compared to the ASS RAPING you got from Microshaft with the RROD issue. People's systems are still breaking down. The wait is now 4-6 weeks. That's how terrible that hardware is.
And if you look all over this post, it's nothing but people who don't every care about getting a PS3 that are chiming up about shit. I'm talking smack because I have my $400 ready to drop on a 360 the minute Microshit gets their act together and builds something that won't break down after some hardcore gaming session.
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Why do I want BC? Because our setups have evolved with wireless controllers this gen, going back to corded ps2 controllers and a ps2 in my setup is too much hassle. Sorry Sony, I was looking forward to this price point, but going back on BC is a dealbreaker for me. I hope you get your act together soon, before FFXIII, I'd hate to miss that game over console blunders.