Can you play Play Station 1 games on Play Station 3?

[Squeek]

Re: Can you play Play Station 1 games on Play Station 3?

Reason to take out backwards compatibility was price chopping I believe.

Also, the Xbox 360 does not have 100% backwards compatibility with all xbox games.

Also, If i remember correctly the ps2 was the first system ever to introduce backwards compatibility. (Depending on when game boy color came out, but honestly even if it did come out before, can you really call it true backwards compatibility considering that all it did was just introduce colored pixels and remained basically the same system)

Well aware.

Well aware.

Irrelevant.

[Grandiagod]

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So you acknowledge their logic isn't backward, just that they were trying to cut the price down to make it cheaper to make thus more affordable to the populous?

[Squeek]

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No, the messed-up logic is that every PS3 has a different backward compatibility list.

What's worse is that the one console that guarantees "no backward compatibility" actually has backward compatibility (or so summerschool says) with two generations ago.

Oh, and as you may recall, the differences in emulation of the PS2 games were significant enough that some games looked absolutely horrid on the PS3.

[ddr_f4n]

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I have a friend that has NO backward compatibilty at all. I don't know which version he owns, but he was pretty pissed when he heard about this.

[Grandiagod]

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Squeek, emulation isn't easy or simple. It's just impossible to make some games work.

And ddrfan, that's what he gets for making a large purchase while not bothering to inform himself.

[andy-o24]

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Some games work and others don't. The way that the PS3 reads the disks is different from the other PS systems so the disks don't read right.

As for the 360, I have the Halo trilogy. I can play the first and second with ease on the console but the first one has some serious graphic lag. There are certain things on the new gen consoles that are rediculous as to backward compatibility.

-o24

[Squeek]

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Squeek, emulation isn't easy or simple. It's just impossible to make some games work.

And yet the Wii has full backward compatibility with every Gamecube game ever made.

Sure is hard huh.

Sure costs hundreds of dollars to do it right that's why the Wii is three thousand dollars

Oh god I see the next comment "yeah well wii is just a beefed-up gamecube anyway"

yeah well it isn't. Whole new processor, whole new video card, whole new chipset.

Sony claims the PS3 was expensive because they used hardware emulation in the Emotion Engine, which is essentially putting a PS2 in a PS3. If that were the case, why do some games not work, and why do some games look like ****? And who would pay extra for that ****?

[Aleste]

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60gig PS3 has a PS2 chip built in. 80g has software emulation of some kind. Download? not sure how it works, exactly.

[vvav]

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Oh, and as you may recall, the differences in emulation of the PS2 games were significant enough that some games looked absolutely horrid on the PS3.

This was fixed in a firmware update almost a year ago. But I do agree with a lot of what you're saying in your other posts. If Sony could make the PS3 have full backwards compatibility with PS1 and 2, I would support it a lot more. As it is, it's just a more expensive 360 with fewer games.

[MalReynolds]

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With free BluRay player installed (costs $100 more for the HD Drive for the X-box) and free WiFi card - WiFi adapter costs money for the X-box. And free online service. Which costs money for the X-box.

Still, the Wii is the way to go. People give the X-box too much credit, though.

[Grandiagod]

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And yet the Wii has full backward compatibility with every Gamecube game ever made.

Cell processor mother****er, it's pretty ****ing hard to rework completely new **** with a completely new setup perfectly.

[pop3tart]

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And yet the Wii has full backward compatibility with every Gamecube game ever made.

Yes, Squeek.

Yes.

Have you thought about anything but backwards capability, lately?

Maybe it's the fact that the PS3 is advanced for it's time and you don't want to admit it.

Maybe it's not.

The way I see it, in the future PS2 and PS1 games will not matter. Blu Ray is winning over HDDVD. Take it in, Squeek. Just effing Take. It. In.

X-Box isn't keeping up. It just isn't.

Sony has been ahead of the game even with the PS3 out for a while, now.

Few games? Yes. For now.

Soon there will be many fantastic titles as PS3 exclusives and the public just may change their views a bit.

Some people like Nintendo, so there it is for them. They can get their Wii and be happy. What I don't see sense in is that they come over and bash the PS3 like they were even thinking about getting it in the first place. Come on, people. Just play your Wii and be happy. I don't care.

So, Squeek. Why don't you just go play your X-box and leave Sony alone, eh? I thought by now you'd quit whining about your obsession with backwards-capability.

[Buttoxin]

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The way I see it, in the future PS2 and PS1 games will not matter. Blu Ray is winning over HDDVD.

PS1 games will eventually fade away. PS2 games... NEVER. That's like saying the Halo series will disappear tomorrow.

DVD is winning over both of those, and always will because bluray and hddvd are just dvd's that make people believe they can see better graphics. Also they cost a hell of a lot more money. Ever wonder why the PS3 came out so expensive?

[pop3tart]

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DVD is winning over both of those, and always will because bluray and hddvd are just dvd's that make people believe they can see better graphics.

Well, for your information. . . Blu Ray DOES have better graphics. And it can store 5x more information than a regular DVD. The whole reason they call it Blu Ray is because of the Blue laser it uses to read information. The wavelength is shoter, which causes more data to be able to be stored. That's why it can hold High Definition video.

PS3 games are Blu Ray discs, which means massive storage. And no, that's not the reason the PS3's are so expensive. Sony doesn't use low-tech materials to put together the consoles. And the hardware they incorporate into the console itself is costly. That's why they lose so much money over every console they sell.

[ddr_f4n]

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Yes, Squeek.

Yes.

Have you thought about anything but backwards capability, lately?

Maybe it's the fact that the PS3 is advanced for it's time and you don't want to admit it.

Maybe it's not.

The way I see it, in the future PS2 and PS1 games will not matter. Blu Ray is winning over HDDVD. Take it in, Squeek. Just effing Take. It. In.

X-Box isn't keeping up. It just isn't.

Sony has been ahead of the game even with the PS3 out for a while, now.

Few games? Yes. For now.

Soon there will be many fantastic titles as PS3 exclusives and the public just may change their views a bit.

Some people like Nintendo, so there it is for them. They can get their Wii and be happy. What I don't see sense in is that they come over and bash the PS3 like they were even thinking about getting it in the first place. Come on, people. Just play your Wii and be happy. I don't care.

So, Squeek. Why don't you just go play your X-box and leave Sony alone, eh? I thought by now you'd quit whining about your obsession with backwards-capability.

You know that he doesn't have an Xbox 360. The 360 sure doesn't play every single Xbox game, but now I don't many Xbox 1 games anymore. The Xbox 360 games are dominating the Xbox 1 games enough where people doesn't care about the backward compatibility. So is the Wii. The PS3 still has too little games for this to happen.

Also, the Blu-ray is dominating the movie market right now, so there is an advantage for the PS3. The only downfall is that the games are now more expensive due to the fact that they are in Blu-ray discs themselves. Regardless, the PS3 is still really cheap with all of the extra features, only too expensive for the average consumer to purchase.