Topic: PS3 not Backwards compatible?

[Avinash_Tyagi]

At least not fully it seems:

gamesindustry.biz

Speaking to the IDG News Service, Sony spokesperson Reiko Sakamoto said: "It's hard to say the PlayStation 3 will be 100 per cent backwards compatible."

We believe multiple factors are responsible," Sakamoto told IDG, explaining that the new console has a different chipset which is not compatible with the way some software is programmed, resulting in glitches such as hangs and slow game saves.

Seems only Nintendo gets it right.

[mantidor]

Nothing beats the uber-backwards compatibility of the Rev anyway.

[King of Twitch]

I don't think any system has been 100% backwards compatible, but 47+ seems like a lot.

[TMW]

Woah woah woah.

WTF?  Sony is selling a new slimlined silver PS2 that can't play some PS2 games?  Is it just me, or is that effing stupid?  And people will still buy it, I bet.

[nickmitch]

So, will the PS3 have the have the same list of unplayable games as this new PS2, or will the list get bigger?

[jasonditz]

Probably won't be a huge deal I'm guessing... the PS2's backward compatibility was pretty shaky in some spots as well.

[odifiend]

Yeah, this won't matter at all.  Sony will still advertise backward compatibility and people (who can afford it) will still gobble it up.

[KDR_11k]

Backwards compatibility always has issues because especially crappy games don't follow the specs put out by the manufacturers and abuse bugs in the hardware. Since the specs are a guarantee from the manufacturer to the developer of what will work how, anything outside of the spec can and will change.

[Djunknown]

As KDR said, its only the crappy games that have this problem. To make a similiar comparison, look at the 1019 memory card for the 'Cube. There's a handful of games that don't support that card (Sonic Adventure 2 being the most famous, though it'll work as long as you don't have 999 blocks..)

Here's a list of some games that 'may not work properly' on PS2:Here

The one that people might actually care about is Final Fantasy Anthology. I don't think you'll miss the rest.

Here's an expanded list for Model number 75001 (Slimline PStwo?):Here again

Again, just a couple of major titles, and a bunch of crappy ones.

I guess it goes to show to not dump those 'legacy' systems just yet.