European PS3 to Play Over 1,000 PS2 Titles
Posted by: [NT] on: 03/02/2007 09:38 AM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ] · 1631 views
After last week?s surprising news that Sony is removing the Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer chip from the European PS3, thus affecting its backwards compatibility with PS2 games, the gaming community had less than positive things to say about the move.
Phil Harrison today speaks out to fans to help clarify what last week?s announcement was all about. Semi-official Sony blog Three Speech questioned Harrison on the logic behind the downgrade, to which he says, ?Our thinking involves being able to bring the latest hardware specification of the PS3 to Europe, although that does mean an initial slight reduction in the number of PS2 components. But it?s important to put that into context: there will still be thousands of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles playable on the PS3 at launch. Read on at DailyTech.
Phil Harrison today speaks out to fans to help clarify what last week?s announcement was all about. Semi-official Sony blog Three Speech questioned Harrison on the logic behind the downgrade, to which he says, ?Our thinking involves being able to bring the latest hardware specification of the PS3 to Europe, although that does mean an initial slight reduction in the number of PS2 components. But it?s important to put that into context: there will still be thousands of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles playable on the PS3 at launch. Read on at DailyTech.
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scyphe Unregistered |
#66066 Posted on: 03/02/2007 01:59 PM
"there will still be thousands of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles playable on the PS3 at launch." How does that translate to a title of "European PS3 to Play Over 1,000 PS2 Titles" ????? We already know it will play tons and tons of PSX games but when it comes to PS2 games the Euro-PS3 will only play around half the PS2-games that currently plays on Jap/US PS3's. [NT], make the topic text less biased next time eh? |
