Now that Sony is dropping backwards compatibility on PS3 40GB...

Will you sell your beloved PS2?:shock:

I can see two possible scenarios after that:

1 - PS2 will keep outselling PS3 for a long time

2 - PS3consoles with bundled Emotion Engine are going to be rare and unique pieces of hardware.

Personally, I can´t understand why Sony is messing up so much with their marketing strategies. Dropping backwards compatibility is such a lousy idea. My grandmother would have better thoughts than that.The whole Sony marketing department are nothing but a bunch of morons.

With the latest price drop, I am seriously considering a PS3 for Christmas or Easter. Sure there is no BC, less USB ports and no card reader but think of it this way. If you are willing to accept that you dont need to play older games on the PS3, you can accept the loss of BC and the reader. I dont play multiplayer so the loss of USB wont hurt too much. I will get a larger drive and install it myself and voila, problem solved.

Hopefully they release some good stuff in the future, it is the only remaining stumbling block.

Im going to get a 6o gb ps3 but waitting for a price dropb and i dont care is they make 10 gb 20 gb 15.5 gb i want the 60 unless they make a 200 gbwillxcool

Why though? What is so special about a 200 Gb drive? Aside from price, nothing I can think of. You can easily get a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on your own instead of the 5400 RPM supplied as a cheaper and faster solution.

I heard from someone else (?) on line that the whole Backwards Compatibility issue is only so much of a problem as you can get emulated games downloaded on the Playstation online network - which still means that it is a proble, for those of us who do not have the ability to get on to a Sony site or do not want to worry yet about subscription service or the hardware(?) needed to get us there. The other, more direct problem with this is unless Sony releases some hardware for a person to be able to write there own DVDs off of the PS3 (which is doubtful), then the PS2 games are going to eventually take up a fair amount of room on the Hard drive. Truthfully, I think that the PS2's are so cheap right now that this isn't so much of a factor. Perhaps an adaptor will be made to allow faithful PS2 fans to play their much loved games on the new PS3's after their original system fails.
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