Check the Microsoft Backwards Compatibility list or wiki page. Has expanded so much since 2005 and is still growing. They got Panzer Dragoon Otra on there now. Still no Otogi or Spikeout Battlestreet sadly.
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The problem is when the hardware breaks. And, what's even more an issue than having a working PS3 are having controllers. Because of having lots of free time on my hands due to the pandemic and wanting to play something online (last-gen online games were way better) and having not-so-good PS3 controllers anymore (they just wear out over time); I had to buy a new controller and you can't get DS3s anymore and the 3rd-party ones just aren't as good. I bought this BF4 PS3 controller as it seems to be better than the other 3rd-party ones available and it is a solid controller but the sticks just aren't as good as the DS3 sticks and I really couldn't play as good as I normally did because I couldn't aim great with the controller.
It's mainly just that there's not enough people that would use the PS1/2 BC feature. I remember way back when Sony removed PS2 BC from the PS3 and they cited costs along with the fact that most people didn't even use the PS3 for PS2 games and that was when PS2 games were last-gen.
That seems quite disingenuous, I recall at the time that most PS3s didn't even have the backwards compatibility so they couldn't have used it, I personally didn't use it because since I couldn't cross to the USA at the time I had given my uncle the money to buy one and despite my instructions he bought the one that wasn't retrocompatible for PS2, that being said I remember I used the PS1 compatibility so much that I ended up selling my PS1 since I could just play them on my PS3 with 0 issues, but anyway my point is that obviously almost no one is going to use a feature that you only included on the more expensive version of the initial release, most people are going to buy the cheaper version or buy it later and if I recall correctly even the expensive or premium versions of later models of PS3 weren't retrocmpatible with PS2.
That isn't the case, so I didn't want to get this wrong, but apparently there were 5 different launch models of 20GB, 40GB, 60GB, 80GB & 160GB, according to this article only the 20GB & the 60GB models were backwards compatible, I actually was unaware that there was 20GB version with retro-compatibility, I had the 40GB version so I didn't get that feature, with this new information though, I no longer know if I had the cheapest model maybe the 20GB version was cheaper, I don't know I'm too lazy to look this up, hmmm... That does mean that I have no idea what the sample size was, since if the 20GB version was the cheapest, it's likely that was the most sold one and as such the sample size might have been bigger than I realised.
It doesn't really, so I guess I just thought most didn't because mine in particular didn't, it was the 40GB Spider-Man 3 Blu-Ray edition that I had, I can confirm that one wasn't backwards compatible, don't know about tge other ones I guess.
Basically, it goes like this:
Tho it must be added that playable here means tons of glitches and fairly frequent crashes on a custom build of the emulator probably only available to Patreon donors. Technically possible to play the game start to finish, but it would be a major pain in the ass. It'll be some time before the fixes necessary to run MGS4 will be folded into the public build, and longer still until the game can be considered truly fully playable.
The only thing I didn't realize was that the BC in the models that only did software emulation was patched out (which is pretty crappy). I'm guessing that was due to Sony being all upset about the PS3 getting jailbroken and removing the Linux support as well.
Oh man, I remember when they did that and it bricked some kind of cluster the US Air Force has built with like a hundred PS3s. Man there was some salt in those letters of complaint.
Yeh, I remember that. They had like 1500+ PS3's chained together because Cell processors are actually pretty suited to specific supercomputing tasks and buying hundred of consoles at like $600 a piece was relatively cheaper than a proper supercomputer. Though those clusters weren't so much bricked as phased out since the removal of Linux support meant replacing failing nodes got harder, while at the same time supercomputer tech was advancing to where you could get better performance at the same price.
Well yeah, we’ve come miles in data centre layout and computing technology. Nowadays if you want some extreme processing power you buy a TeraData cluster and have it installed in your server room/data hall.
