name='Kempez' said:
I don't blame Sony for dropping PS2 support. Their a corporation and want to make money. Not supporting the PS2 means they can sell the games on the Playstation Store and will free up bug fixing time for the PS3 games.
I think this is the major issue for most companies.
Whenever they release something, they almost certainly need a support department for it.
It's wildly acceptable that the ps3 could do ps2/ps1/mame etcetc, either natively or with emulation.
Think the key thing may be to somehow move away from the "support" mindset. Release it as the ps3, for ps3 reasons and have a sandbox approach to anything else it can do.
This is not going to happen tho since the drm revolution. U would need to severly void any Sony ties once u've purchased it to launch it into the platform it could verymuch be.
Even if they came up with a way that 3rd parties could boot into the sandbox approach, it would blow the popularity wide open amoungst those enthusiastic about homebrew approaches. But may also breed into the illegalities approach, so u see their reluctance there.
I always thought it would be outstanding to be able to launch software off a ps2 to turn it into an mp3 player, that was decades ago tho. Only within the console hack communities do anything like these things come to light.
It is a shame, but it's the corporate-consumer environment we live in. Cash over potential.