[QUOTE="stele29"]Ps2 games can easily be played on ps3s without the emu chip, but it would require a emulation wrapper written for each game, which is exactly what microsoft does. Its not that it isn't possible, its just that they can't do a blanket software emu. They can easily put 5-10 of the most popular Sony PS2 games on PSN. I promise that once the PS2 is officially off the shelves, it won't be long before Sony does it. The PS3 has plenty of power to do it all in software.
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I wasn't talking about the Emotion Engine. That's the CPU. The old 80GBs could emulated that. But they still needed a physical Graphics Synthesizer GPU.
The 360 has an advantage in that its architecture is still somewhat similar to the original Xbox. Compared to that, the PS2 and PS3 are apples and oranges. (Or maybe even apples and cucumbers.)
Your post is absolutely correct only in regards to blanket emulation. I.e. all PS2 games. This is not a apples and oranges sitution. Its simply a matter of writing the right software for the job. For example, they can develop a wrapper (emulator) that can play xbox games on yoru ps3 with no problem. We have been playing Ps1 and Ps2 games on our pcs for years through emulation. They have not been perfect emulatiors though because they were written by fans and were free. Since Sony has access to source code, making the emulator easy to write, albeit time consuming sometimes, but thats why they have full time programmers.. :) Anyone who believes that a piece of missing hardware can prevent an older game from being played really hasn't been around computers that long.
Remember that the PS3 emulates PS1 games with no problems, even though it doesnt have the ps1 hardware (which was required in the earlier ps2 models for emulation and later removed in the slimline models and replaced with full software emulation). As long as you have the processing power, you can do anything in software. The PS3 has plenty for this job. Sony won't admit being able to do it right now because of 2 reasons- 1) They are still selling PS2s (they wanted to charge extra for the emulation), and 2) they don't want to cause a rift between those that paid high prices for the emulation and the people that didn't. But as I said before, once some time passes they will release PS2 games on PSN. Last year the Sony CEO had said they were looking into bringing PS2 games to PSN, but they didn't havea time table. It would be easy money.
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