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Feb
12

On backwards compatibility…

Posted in Consoles | Gaming | PS3

The concept of “backwards compatibility” was introduced, as far as I can remember, by the Playstation 2. It was the first console with a major selling point being its ability to play the library of games you already owned on the Playstation. Now every console has it: the Xbox 360 plays Xbox games, the Wii plays Gamecube games, the Gameboy DS plays Gameboy Advance games, etc. Sony has been playing with this concept in the Playstation 3, the original SKUs having full PS2 hardware and the newer SKUs utilizing software emulation. I’ve been watching the process play out and it now seems that according to some the next round of SKUs (could Sony get a grip on their hardware configurations already?) will not feature backwards compatibility with Playstation 2 titles. (more…)

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