Its official!

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Its official, ps3 will play ps2 AND ps1 games...

PS3 Backward Compatible
Yes, it's now official.

September 02, 2003 - Why do we love our PlayStation 2's? Sure, it has lots of cool games and plays DVD movies, but why do really love it? Because it can play original PlayStation games too, of course. A seemingly minor feature, the fact that the PS2 can play PS one games is without a doubt one of the reasons for the PS2's success; so why fix something that definitely isn't broken?
In a talk with Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Ken Kutaragi, head honcho at Sony Computer Entertainment, officially confirmed that the successor to the PlayStation 2 will in fact be backward compatible with not only PS2 games, but also PS one games.

"PS one runs on PlayStation 2 through emulation rather than actual hardware. PlayStation 3 will offer the same compatibility for PS2 software and the format will continue forever," Kutarai explained.

The inclusion of backward compatibility is not all that surprising, but we're glad it's finally official. Now we don't have to worry about having ten consoles and the corresponding wire mess in our living rooms.

Check back with IGN for more news regarding Sony's latest console beast.

this was taken from here http://ps2.ign.com/articles/436/436300p1.html?fromint=1
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
Yeah! Now we can play our 10 year old games! ... no wait, that's not as cool as it sounds ...
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:lol: I would have to agree, sort of. Some of the old games are still quite entertaining. Much like how Pong is still an excellent time waster! :p
 
I do. As a matter of fact, my Atari, NES, SNES, Sega, N64, and PSX are all hooked up and played on a regular basis. Just because a game doesn't have the most up to date graphics doesn't mean it's a bad game.
 
Playing PS1 games on a PS2 is already an eyesore. Just wait until we all become used to PS3 graphics and we try and switch on an old PS1 game. Eyesore to the maxorness. :rolleyes:
 
I still play my PS1 games, I just got finshed play Xenogears again actually, and it really didin't look that bad on my PS2.
 
Originally posted by Concept
Playing PS1 games on a PS2 is already an eyesore. Just wait until we all become used to PS3 graphics and we try and switch on an old PS1 game. Eyesore to the maxorness. :rolleyes:
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I see what you mean...

I am a GT mega-fan, and I always used to play GT2, and could beat anyone I knew.

Then I got my PS2, and got hooked on GT3.

Then, at my friend's house, who only had a PS1 at the time, I tried to play Gran Turismo 2 again.

I couldn't do anything.

Imagine, this smiley is my car--- :banghead:
 
Originally posted by ViperAnt
I see what you mean...

I am a GT mega-fan, and I always used to play GT2, and could beat anyone I knew.

Then I got my PS2, and got hooked on GT3.

Then, at my friend's house, who only had a PS1 at the time, I tried to play Gran Turismo 2 again.

I couldn't do anything.

Imagine, this smiley is my car--- :banghead:
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:lol: That must have been embarrassing!
 

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