One of the things I remember most about arcade gaming when I was a kid was the big beefy controllers that the arcade games had. You could really pound away at the controls for games like Pac Man and Donkey Kong and playing the games on a gamepad today just isn’t the same. X-Arcade makes a full line of old school arcade controllers for the PC and PlayStation but the Xbox 360 has been left out, until now.
I remember when I was a kid one of my friends had a van that with an Atari inside for us to play while we drove. That was back in the day when having an Atari at all was a big deal. Audiovox has announced something that is sure to find its way into vans and SUVs today called the VOD10PS2.
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Sony have confirmed that the PS3 Slim will never get PlayStation 2 backward compatibility. According to Sony's director of hardware marketing, John Koller, PS2 compatibility is "not coming back, so let me put that on the table", as well as suggesting that "it's not as big as a purchase intent driver as you may be hearing."
Sony have announced their latest financial results [pdf link], and given their last set of figures revealed a dire 95-percent crash in profits a quarter ago, all eyes are on the Japanese giant to see if they’ve managed to turn things around. Unfortunately, it’s still not looking good: sales decreased 19.2-percent compared to the same quarter 2008, and an operating loss of 25.7bn yen ($268m) recorded. That’s 99.1bn yen down from the previous year.
Sony have filed a patent for a system whereby the PS3’s Cell Processor could emulate the hardware of a PS2, opening up the older console’s back-catalog. The patent describes how the Cell Processor would emulate the Emotion Engine chipset that was included in the first-generation of PS3 hardware but then removed midway through 2007.
Video game hating ex-attorney Jack Thompson has finally made himself useful, with a copy of his book “Out of Harm’s Way” providing the donor housing for a rather nifty PS2 case-mod. Mattigus of the Halflife2.net forums is the modder in question, who bought a copy of Thompson’s book on eBay and stuffed his working PS2 inside.
Logitech have announced a guitar controller for the PlayStation, licensed by Activision for their Guitar Hero series. The Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for PS3 and PS2 has a wood neck and body, plus a rosewood fingerboard and metal frets, while its wireless system offers up to 30ft of range.
Sony’s PS2 will see a price-cut starting April 1st, that will bring the console down to $99.99. The console – which is almost ten years old – has sold 50 million units in North America alone.
If these three tiny images are to be believed, they’re a sign that the Sony PS2 will be reduced to just $99.99 as of April 5th. The news was leaked from a source inside Kmart that has reportedly provided “reliable retail information in the past”.
Even after the release of Sony’s Blu-Ray-packing Playstation 3, the older Playstation 2 is still selling – in fact, it just hit a major milestone. The PS2 officially hit the 50 million mark recently, eight years after it was unleashed on our living rooms.
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