Slim Playstation 3 Lacks Support

name='PeterStoba' said:
The slim version of Sony's playstation 3 will lack playstation 2 game support.

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The reason they have stopped the PS2 ability is because they're starting to charge for PS2 games very soon, which means MUCH more money for them. I know myself for sure I will be purchasing Vice City and GTA3 because I always have to bust out my PS2 to play them :(.
 
Yeah since around the turn of the 90s, the general idea is - is just grease up, bend over and take it.

The thing will be to w8 for some clever dood to hack it.
 
Just like the xbox 360 bull. you cannot play fable from the dvd (xbox) but you can download that in iso format to play direct on the xbox .... Pure bull and money making spinner..

Rasta totally agree with what you have to say. time to greece up you ring peace and take it like a man.
 
I don't blame Sony for dropping PS2 support. They're 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.
 
*strokes original PS3 with PS2 chip*

Not used the function that often to be honest.. Nice to have the option though.
 
theyv'e come out and said there will never ever ve ps2 support on the ps3. Also the new ps3 slim can bitstream truehd and dts-hd ma audio. Also theres someone come out and said that the ps3 slim could be quicker. This is unconformed though.
 
Don't believe it is quicker... It has exactly the same GPU on the same process but I believe the CPU has had a process shrink but still runs at exactly the same speed, hence the lower power consumption.

Think I read that anyway.
 
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.
 
name='nathan' said:
theyv'e come out and said there will never ever ve ps2 support on the ps3. Also the new ps3 slim can bitstream truehd and dts-hd ma audio. Also theres someone come out and said that the ps3 slim could be quicker. This is unconformed though.

Bitstreaming HD audio is a good move and could up the PS3's Blu Ray playing prestige somewhat in the enthusiast market. It's one of the few things that let's it down there.

name='Bungral' said:
Don't believe it is quicker... It has exactly the same GPU on the same process but I believe the CPU has had a process shrink but still runs at exactly the same speed, hence the lower power consumption.

Think I read that anyway.

I agree, though they must have added a chip for bitstreaming HD audio if nathan is correct.

name='Rastalovich' said:

The issue is most of the home-brew 'sandpit' community hack their games and therefore the money does not get back to devs, which in turn means devs are less interested in making games for your platform. Money has to be made or it's not running a company, it's charity. DRM sucks, but at least the money goes back to the places it should do.

Surely if you want to play PS2 games, you have a PS2, I see no point whatsoever in buying a PS3 if you're just going to be playing PS2 games on it. May as well buy an N64 and go play Goldeneye (legendary game btw!).
 
I think the whole ps2 thing is not necessarily that u'd buy a ps3 in view to purchasing new ps2 games, but the ability to play ur existing stock. Particularly with game genres that lose their playability the more versions of it that come out. And ofc u do have shops all over the place that sell classic 2nd hand games for older consoles for peanuts and trade-ins.

With the howbrew/hack side of things, the most interest is in using existing comercial games, whilst having the ability to do other things.

The thing I believe prevents Sony in championing anything like this is that it's always 1 step away from a cracking group using a similar booting method to allow copied games to work.

Someone with install a full linux on it. Someone will attempt XP. They just do it for the heck of it and give the guidance out for others who may want to pick up that ball and run with it.

More recently tho it has involve more and more tricky amounts of solder, that people are less and less inclinde to do, no matter how easy the utube makes it look. It's a long way from exploiting the addon ports ps1s had to launch software of memory cards - but these things are still being done on psps.
 
Have an original ps3 which has all the b/w compat stuff (which I upgraded to 160Gb ) so not too bothered, but I really like the look of the new one with the matte black finish, looks sweet! will def upgrade and move the other one into the office to watch blu rays :)

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