no more backwards compatibility?

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157441 personally I think they do have a point where its time to look forward to the new generation of games mainly ps3's and considering the fact that ps2's are still selling well, they could just play ps2 games on that instead of the ps3, but its also screws over certain groups of consumers (mainly europe) and if they do eventually do it here and in japan then those people also, if they were gonna do this, they should have done it for all systems including the launch ones. any thoughts?mmirza23

Dude why the hell do people complain NA and Asia have a 98% backwards compatibility and Euro will have  less what 96/95%? last time I checked Sony kept sending firmware updates increasing the backwards compatibility and they stated the same for Euro consoles

Poeple that should worry are the "other" consoles owner who have aprox of 30% backwards compatibility

Dude why the hell do people complain NA and Asia have a 98% backwards compatibility and Euro will have less what 96/95%? last time I checked Sony kept sending firmware updates increasing the backwards compatibility and they stated the same for Euro consoles

Poeple that should worry are the "other" consoles owner who have aprox of 30% backwards compatibility

Charlie2688

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157441 personally I think they do have a point where its time to look forward to the new generation of games mainly ps3's and considering the fact that ps2's are still selling well, they could just play ps2 games on that instead of the ps3, but its also screws over certain groups of consumers (mainly europe) and if they do eventually do it here and in japan then those people also, if they were gonna do this, they should have done it for all systems including the launch ones. any thoughts?mmirza23

First of all there IS backward compatibility (i don't see why the subject). Second of all we've got to wait till it's released and see how big the problem really is. I agree it's an issue but a really big one only if games such as MGS, God Of War, GTA, etc don't work. We HAVE to wait and see.....rickspin

lol well yeah thats why I had a question mark in the subject, not sure as to how good its gonna be, as our's is.

[QUOTE="Charlie2688"]

Dude why the hell do people complain NA and Asia have a 98% backwards compatibility and Euro will have less what 96/95%? last time I checked Sony kept sending firmware updates increasing the backwards compatibility and they stated the same for Euro consoles

Poeple that should worry are the "other" consoles owner who have aprox of 30% backwards compatibility

Cellien

Right now I own a NA PS3 and I love it, but when I heard this I was shocked.   BC was one of the best selling features of the PS3 and a BIG reason why I got one.  BC also helps to ensure Playstation brand loyalty.  

And while a list of supported european games for PS2 isn't available yet, if the software emulation is anything like the 360s, it can't be too good.  They say its for cost reduction purposes, yet Europeans pay a few hundred more per PS3 than both USA and Japan anyway.  There has been no announced price change in Europe either.   I don't know why they did this.... but I am glad I already bought my NA PS3, hopefully they wont make a change to the hardware over here too. ajefferism

[QUOTE="Cellien"][QUOTE="Charlie2688"]

Dude why the hell do people complain NA and Asia have a 98% backwards compatibility and Euro will have less what 96/95%? last time I checked Sony kept sending firmware updates increasing the backwards compatibility and they stated the same for Euro consoles

Poeple that should worry are the "other" consoles owner who have aprox of 30% backwards compatibility

eclipsed4utoo

[QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Cellien"][QUOTE="Charlie2688"]

Dude why the hell do people complain NA and Asia have a 98% backwards compatibility and Euro will have less what 96/95%? last time I checked Sony kept sending firmware updates increasing the backwards compatibility and they stated the same for Euro consoles

Poeple that should worry are the "other" consoles owner who have aprox of 30% backwards compatibility

Cellien

[QUOTE="mmirza23"]http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157441 personally I think they do have a point where its time to look forward to the new generation of games mainly ps3's and considering the fact that ps2's are still selling well, they could just play ps2 games on that instead of the ps3, but its also screws over certain groups of consumers (mainly europe) and if they do eventually do it here and in japan then those people also, if they were gonna do this, they should have done it for all systems including the launch ones. any thoughts?Master__Shake

Not all is not equal to no more.  WOW. It's not hard to read but it is that hard to comprehend something?

Way to spin the news to make it worse.

The press release doesn't state that Sony is abandoning BC OR even that they are going all software OR that they are telling people to "just buy a PS2". This seems more like Sony just modulating expectations after everyone criticized them for promising "total backwards compatibility" when it was really "only" 98%. More likely Sony will still have excellent BC but there may be some inevitable glitches that crop up with the adoption of a new emulation method.

It's funny that I've been watching the media and forum criticisms of Sony saying they suck for promising the world and not delivering. Over and over again Sony is ragged on and told to be "less arrogant" and "make fewer promises they can't deliver." Now that Sony actually makes a press release that lowers peoples expectations again everyone pounces like starved lions on a sick elephant. It seems Sony can't do anything right in the eyes of the world.

I think everyone should take a deep breath, have some patience and see how things ACTUALLY TURN OUT before b*tching about everything. If the BC is crap we'll have plenty of time to crucify Sony later on.

I seem to recall the same thing happened with the anti-aliasing glitch for the NA systems. Everyone was whining about it, saying so much crap about how it was unfixable and how Sony messed up big time. That got fixed right? So how about we learn from that and wait for objective data before we start spreading crap around like drug-snorting bipolar monkeys.