Sony is actually taking backwards compatibility seriously again

[Dark Jaguar]

Sony, at long last, is taking backwards compatibility seriously just when MS is washing their hands of it after such a long period of taking it seriously themselves.  I wish these companies would just commit already.

In any case, yes, they are going to have a subscription access pass.  Good, that's going well for MS and for Nintendo after all.  What sets them apart (from Nintendo) is that you'll still be able to permanently purchase individual games and just own them, if you so choose (and I do).  Further, all past digital purchases of retro games on PS3/PSP/Vita will be honored in the new store.  (Hear that Nintendo?)  FURTHER, unlike Sony's incredibly disappointing and bizarre "Playstation Mini", these games will all be specially tuned with modern expected emulator features like CRT effects, save states, and perhaps even using the right game for each region!  (Sorry, the Playstation Mini is an easy target...)

All in all, very good news all around.  If they can get something going for PS3 games as well as PS1/2/PSP (Vita to be determined), we'll really have something here.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, Sony is taking backwards compatibility so seriously that their new service has... 50hz PAL versions of games.  It's not clear what the US or Japan will be getting, Sony is not communicating at all, but apparently they published ONLY 50hz PAL games in non-Japan Asia on this service, and Europe is likely to get PAL as well.  There isn't much worse they could possibly do than dump the awful 50hz PAL versions of games on people, but they're doing it.  Sony has learned absolutely nothing from the PS1 Classic debacle and has repeated the exact same mistake.  Because Sony.

[Dark Jaguar]

Yep I just recently read that.  Anyway, you can get over this "Sony are the worst" thing, because, well, they're ALL terrible.  MS, Sony, Nintendo.  They're awful.  Moving right along, the rest of their moves have been okay but their choice to use the PAL versions is... bizarre.  I mean in Europe it makes sense of course, but stop foisting those versions on NTSC territories.  Yes, I get it, those versions include more translations.  Here's the solution there.  Just give us access to every region's version on purchase.  Done.