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Ironically, straight after suggesting that there’s finally a good reason for buying a PS3 comes the news that European gamers wanting to play their back-catalogue of PlayStation 2 games might do better waiting until after the launch. Sony has just released a statement where they attempt to justify removing the dedicated emulation chip (which allows US and Japanese variants of the console to play up to 98 percent of PS2 games) made by Datamonitor and replacing it with a less-effective software emulator:
“Rather than concentrate on PS2 backwards compatibility, in the future, company resources will be increasingly focused on developing new games and entertainment features exclusively for PS3, truly taking advantage of this exciting technology” David Reeves, President, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Customers are likely to be unimpressed by paying considerably more than their US and Japanese counterparts for a console that is tangibly inferior. Not a great move, Sony!
4 Responses to “European PS3 to have reduced backwards-compatibility”
Tuomas Salo February 23, 2007
Yet another example of Sony mistreating their own customers. Europeans will have to wait longer in order to pay more for an inferior machine.
This is the final straw, no PS3 for me.
NeutralTim February 23, 2007
I feel the same Salo, i ever looked back after i got my Wii
NeutralShade February 24, 2007
This is very bad for europe… and sony. They lose lot of customers from europe after this decision if this software based emulation don’t work as good as hardware based (And my quess is… “That it sucks”).
Neutralweeny man April 26, 2007
[quote comment="18588"]Yet another example of Sony mistreating their own customers. Europeans will have to wait longer in order to pay more for an inferior machine.
This is the final straw, no PS3 for me.[/quote]
Neutralwell you suck