I totally agree with you that they should never have pulled ps2 backwards compatibility I think it was a big oversight on their end. The thing is they did it to appease all the people complaining about prices which was a bad move on their part but when millions are screaming that it is too expensive something has to give somewhere and they pulled pretty much the one thing that they could to cheapen up manufacturing costs so they could drop the price of the system. They tried running emulation on the systems after that but it just did not work as well as it did in the first runs with an actual chip. They have also done die changes and such trying to lower costs why exactly they decided to completely remove the ps2 emulation I have no idea for certain I would guess it has something to do with the die changes, the fact that emulation did not work as well, or to cut out another price point of so they could drop it another 100 dollars.TheDukester said:
So I can definitely see your point on that it sucks that they pulled ps2 emulation but the question is are you willing to pay the extra money to have the ps2 emulation.
I really wonder if the people that scream about the price would really buy a ps3 if they did drop the price another 100 dollars? Or if they would still complain about the price or something new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3 has a really good layout of die changes/price changes/breakout of what sku's had what.
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This is why I love the escapist real conversations/ debates that do not turn into screaming matches or flame wars.
