4th August 2006, 2:02 PM
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152668
According to this, Sony has "everything under control" as far as getting your old PS1 and PS2 saves to a PS3 (for anyone who decides to buy it).
Problem? Since it does not in fact have slots for old memory cards, you'll need to buy an adapter.
Fortunatly, once moved over you can actually just create "virtual memory cards" (which is something that should have been done when the PS2 hard disk was released actually, as it's just plain easier than always moving files back and forth when you want to play a game) on the hard disk so you can store all your old data and much much more. I assume you have to actively assign various virtual memory cards to "slots" before playing the game, but that's fine. No more awkward than inserting and removing memory cards manually.
Now MS, it's YOUR turn.
Come to think of it, I hope Nintendo includes "virtual memory card creation" in their Wii system. It would be a lot cheaper than buying new Gamecube memory cards, that's for sure. A one-time copy of all my data into the Wii flash memory or a memory stick (or hopefully a hard disk) and then all I ever really need to do, assuming I ever actually have so many saves it'll be required, is just reassing various "virtual memory cards" to memory card slots. The big thing in this though is that Nintendo needs to allow ANY of the saved data to be moved (if not copied). The system could easily be designed to do just that if they wanted to. If the data can be read off the memory card, it can be copied. I mean yeesh, who cares if someone makes a copy of F-Zero GX data anyway?
According to this, Sony has "everything under control" as far as getting your old PS1 and PS2 saves to a PS3 (for anyone who decides to buy it).
Problem? Since it does not in fact have slots for old memory cards, you'll need to buy an adapter.
Fortunatly, once moved over you can actually just create "virtual memory cards" (which is something that should have been done when the PS2 hard disk was released actually, as it's just plain easier than always moving files back and forth when you want to play a game) on the hard disk so you can store all your old data and much much more. I assume you have to actively assign various virtual memory cards to "slots" before playing the game, but that's fine. No more awkward than inserting and removing memory cards manually.
Now MS, it's YOUR turn.
Come to think of it, I hope Nintendo includes "virtual memory card creation" in their Wii system. It would be a lot cheaper than buying new Gamecube memory cards, that's for sure. A one-time copy of all my data into the Wii flash memory or a memory stick (or hopefully a hard disk) and then all I ever really need to do, assuming I ever actually have so many saves it'll be required, is just reassing various "virtual memory cards" to memory card slots. The big thing in this though is that Nintendo needs to allow ANY of the saved data to be moved (if not copied). The system could easily be designed to do just that if they wanted to. If the data can be read off the memory card, it can be copied. I mean yeesh, who cares if someone makes a copy of F-Zero GX data anyway?
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