24th December 2006, 12:39 PM
If you remember, there was also a handful of PS1 games the PS2 had trouble with.
The PS3 plays most games just fine, and unlike the PS2, they can fix other games with patches. Unlike the 360, they don't do the compatibility via emulation. HOWEVER, it lacks PS2 controller and memory card ports. There's a silly expensive adapter one can get (silly expensive because all it does is adapt a SINGLE memory card and nothing else), but that doesn't fix the lack of support for oh so many custom controllers, from dance pads to drums to guitars. Really, it's sad. Also, such controller ports could be used to add rumble back into old PS1 and PS2 games.
Fortunatly, such an add-on (and the support for it) can be made. It's just a question on if Sony actually cares enough to go about it.
Oh yeah, and one other thing. PS1 games on the PS3 lack the PS2's fast loading option (as well as texture smoothing, but that I can take or leave).
The PS3 plays most games just fine, and unlike the PS2, they can fix other games with patches. Unlike the 360, they don't do the compatibility via emulation. HOWEVER, it lacks PS2 controller and memory card ports. There's a silly expensive adapter one can get (silly expensive because all it does is adapt a SINGLE memory card and nothing else), but that doesn't fix the lack of support for oh so many custom controllers, from dance pads to drums to guitars. Really, it's sad. Also, such controller ports could be used to add rumble back into old PS1 and PS2 games.
Fortunatly, such an add-on (and the support for it) can be made. It's just a question on if Sony actually cares enough to go about it.
Oh yeah, and one other thing. PS1 games on the PS3 lack the PS2's fast loading option (as well as texture smoothing, but that I can take or leave).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)