If you're like me, you'll agree that removing backwards compatibility from the PS3 for no reason was a dumb, irritating move. Just before the PS3 Slim was announced, a number of people had hoped that BC news was also coming, but nothing happened. Now Sony's John Koller has decided to state, quite emphatically, that it's never going to happen. Yeah? Well f*ck you too, guys!
"It's not coming back, so let me put that on the table," Koller states. "It's not as big as [sic] a purchase intent driver as you may be hearing. We've got such a substantial lineup of titles on the PS3; most people are buying the PS3 for PS3 games. They've [sic] buying it for PS3 games and Blu-ray movies.
"That won’t be returning."
I would hope that most people are buying the PS3 for PS3 games -- that's not exactly something to be proud of. Was including BC in the PS3 really that expensive? Considering how cheap PS3 production has become, I really don't see why it would have been that big of a deal to keep the ability to play PS2 games. Something about consumer convenience and, y'know, not being a complete and utter tool of a company.
Well, at least Sony's been good enough to tell us they're never going to stop being dicks about it. The dicks.
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9:40 AM on 08.20.2009
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It's not like Sony's saying "we can't do it". They're saying, "we did do it; we can do it, and now you can't have it."
I guess people will just keep playing their PS2's, and buy a PS3 if something they really want comes out on it.
Still...dont see why they cant do what Microsoft did and institute a Software BC Update, from what I heard half the original BC PS3's were Software BC...
MS may have done the software BC, but only for a paltry few games...
Shame!
If my "fat" PS3 ever breaks I'll probably looks for another "fat" one instead of looking for a ps3 slim
"Still...dont see why they cant do what Microsoft did and institute a Software BC Update, from what I heard half the original BC PS3's were Software BC..."
They were half software, half hardware. And it half worked.
Really, if you want to play PS2 games, get a PS2. Most people I hear whining about this are people who were not going to get a PS3 anyways. It's a gaming/bluray player at the price of any decent bluray player. it's well worth the price.
Now that I know it's not I have to say that that's a pretty dumbfuck move. There will be a point when running PS2's are scarce and then what?
Because you dropped the price of the console because it's cheaper to make, right?
Console includes controllers right?
Right?
No. They don't. They never did. They had partial software emulation, and that didn't even work that well.
I'm getting sick of the Sony Apologists trying to defend every dumbfuck move they make.
Without it? I'd have to drop $100 more to get another PS2 so my library isn't just sitting there looking pretty.
PR people say PR things. Sony once said that the trophies weren't real, they said many things were not real but we have them now.
We've seen the patents for BC... it's coming.
Even if it doesn't... stop living in the damn past, buy a PS2 if you want PS2 games... I'll be enjoying NEW games.
Think Sony, think.
And the throats of Sony employees children.
@Onlineatron
Seriously?! This site is for reporting "news" and when it comes you want it to STFU because you don't like it? Even if it's just something they said they still CONFIRMED it as in not a rumor but CONFIRMED it. If that's true or not we can't possibly know but as far as we all know IT'S NEVER COMING! Do you expect Destructoid to report the future and say that it will come in 2011?
It's now good to know it's not happening. I'm saddened, but at least we have closure (hopefully).
So, what you're saying is, "it's coming...but it may not be, but even if it isn't, shut up...BC doesn't matter because I personally don't want it"?
I love how people can't think outside of their own little lives. Yes, because you don't give a shit about BC or PS2 games, that means that nobody else does either, and the whole thing is overrated and/or unnecessary.
Bottom line, without PS2 BC, I doubt I will ever own a PS3. It's not the deciding factor, but it IS a factor.
The consumers job is to think about the consumer and protect his own interest. It sounds selfish but in the defense of the original poster while what he said may not be logical you can't criticize him for looking out for his own interest.
Plus you can't please EVERYONE. Just hope what pleases you pleases the majority. Otherwise the internetz will getchu.
Just because you magically no longer think PS2 games are worth your time doesn't mean nobody else does.