Poll: PS3 Slim: Ranting and Raving
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the fact that [url http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.131953]I made this thread already[/url] notwithstanding, I like that Sony has finally decided to drop the price, but removing the backward compatibility is a move that is seriously costing them. Believe me, as someone who's trying to convince people all day long to buy a PS3, it's still kind of a hard sell.
To be perfectly honest, I reckon the real reason being the total drop of PS2 compatibility is because they're still selling a decent number of PS2 consoles (hell they still out-perform everything but the Wii most months)
Ironic really that from the start the PS2 has been what has financed the PS3 and kept the Sony Electronic Entertainment Division from being closed; and 3 years on, we're still seeing this to be true.
Sony should've learnt last generation that you don't need to be the biggest and best, simply to provide gamers with everything they need to play games. Sad that they entered the console market dominating with what could be deemed underpowered hardware.
Sony Playstation, Nintendo N64, Sega Saturn... the most powerful of the three failed horribly and the least powerful came up trumps.
Sony Playstation 2, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube... same story
Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3... anyone else seeing a pattern emerging? cause aparently Sony were too retarded to.
Ironic really that from the start the PS2 has been what has financed the PS3 and kept the Sony Electronic Entertainment Division from being closed; and 3 years on, we're still seeing this to be true.
Sony should've learnt last generation that you don't need to be the biggest and best, simply to provide gamers with everything they need to play games. Sad that they entered the console market dominating with what could be deemed underpowered hardware.
Sony Playstation, Nintendo N64, Sega Saturn... the most powerful of the three failed horribly and the least powerful came up trumps.
Sony Playstation 2, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube... same story
Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3... anyone else seeing a pattern emerging? cause aparently Sony were too retarded to.
Oh, no doubt that games are going in great places these days. No doubt that the focus should be on new games. But there's still good things available in old games, and there's nothing wrong with replaying a classic game from an old system which you like. Just like how I greatly enjoy a wide variety of new movies, and like a lot of the improvements they have, but I will still re-watch, "Casablanca" every now and again. If they already have the capacity for backwards compatibility, why remove that for no particular reason?Mazty said:
I have a friend who owns an X Box, plays new games, and loves them. He is almost always playing something new. But he waited excitedly for Jet Set Radio to hit the list of backwards compatible games, and is excited about Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 on X Box Arcade, originally an X Box game. That's not living in the past, that's an entirely legitimate reason to want and enjoy backwards compatibility, and I think Sony is shooting themselves in the foot.
I'm bummed. I bought my PS3 in February, and was really surprised that it would not play ps2 games (80gb model). When I saw the slim and the price, I was a bit miffed. So now I have a bigger, hotter, more expensive version that's still not backward compatible.
I thought none of the PS3s were backward compatible anymore, so they aren't really omitting something as they are just not adding something.