Comments on: PS3 Does Not Support PS2 Games – Why?

By: Juuso

Juuso — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:41:36 +0000

@robert: money well spent. :) Sort of reminds me about this blog post.

By: Robert Dowling

Robert Dowling — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:37:24 +0000

I own one of the original ps3 consoles, it has the backward compatabilty and 4 usb slot… and the memory card reader. I don’t use any of them. Oh wait I do use the extra usb slots. lol

By: enozth

enozth — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:33:01 +0000

i think that maybe marketing plan of sony. if ps3 can play with ps2 many profit will lose.

By: golergka

golergka — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:10:49 +0000

I bought a first-gen with PS3, and PS2 support was the top feature for me. I played a lot of PS2 games on it; in fact, I never owned PS2 before, but now I own the same amount of PS2 and PS3 games.

Another great feature is ps1 compability; I played through the first Silent Hill on PS3/PSP, copying and pasting save-files from one device to the other.

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:34:21 +0000

The xbox does play a lot of old Xbox games, there’s a list on wikipedia I think, plus you can just download a lot of them via XBLA. However, because there are so many great 360 games, I’m not that interested in older games.

By: tonic

tonic — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:59:44 +0000

well… applying the same logic, why would you consider X360 since it doesn’t play old XBOX games?

and yeah, first model of PS3 had extra HW to support PS2 games as well. but actually almost nobody probably cares after all, most people want to play the new games rather than old ones.. and the ones who want to keep playing an old-time favorite on PS2, will surely keep the old PS2 around as well for that purpose.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:10:49 +0000

Russell: it’s the amount of junk in me house I dislike… I don’t like the idea of owning seven thousand different consoles connected to a tv. :)

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:01:05 +0000

Shame. The PS2 played PS1 games but they looked funny.

Can anyone 100% confirm if the PS3 games are really region free? If so I might buy one in Canada as I can use it back in the UK! The only other region free console I have is my Nintendo DS. PS2, Wii, Xbox aren’t, which is annoying.

By: GamingHorror

GamingHorror — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:11:25 +0000

Besides the already mentioned points, backwards compatibility seems not to be a big issue. It’s definetely not a system seller.

By: Lumooja

Lumooja — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:20:50 +0000

It’s production costs. The old PS3 had a chip which could run PS2 games, so it didn’t need to emulate them. It also had bigger harddrive, more USB ports, etc… It’s all about production costs, and removing things which are not absolutetly necessary.