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July 1st, 2008 @ 07:49
Moving quickly to scotch talk of downloadable PS2 titles on PSN, Sony’s issued a statement saying it has no plans to do anything of the sort.
“I’m not sure where the image came from,” said Sony’s Patrick Seybold, when asked by GamePro about this screen of what very much looks like PS2 games on PSN.
“At this point, we haven’t made any announcements, and there are no plans for PS2 downloadable titles on PS3.”
Consider yourself told. E3, yeah?
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July 1st, 2008 at 7:55 am
Thought that was to good to be true
July 1st, 2008 at 8:09 am
Don’t be amazed if it is.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:32 am
Oh RLY…
July 1st, 2008 at 8:34 am
He denied it, so it must be true.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:46 am
Yeah. E3 innit. Either that’s the best photoshop I’ve seen in a long while or it’s real, basically.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:59 am
Shame the games are shit, really.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:13 am
PS2 games?
July 1st, 2008 at 9:17 am
All games.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:20 am
Apart from Lego Indy, right?
July 1st, 2008 at 9:22 am
I don’t count that as a game.
No, I meant the games on the screenshot. Aside from MGS2, they’re all pretty much meh of a meh-ness.
Plus… why would they release MGS2 before they’ve released MGS1?
July 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
If it is true, it still begs the question of how they expect to overcome the fact that the 40GB model won’t actually play PS2 games…
July 1st, 2008 at 9:27 am
A USB PS2.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:52 am
MGS1 was a PS1 game, so you can already play it on the PS3 and probably for a lot less than £13.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:56 am
@Killerbee
Emulation. Fairly simple. Easier for them than MS as they own the IP behind the PS2 - maybe not quite so easy as clearly MS have better devs ;). If they keep this b/c limited to certain games they release on PSN then it’s also easier.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:01 am
DrDamn:
I understand what you’re saying, but I thought that was impossible because even with the power of “Teh Cell” there was no way they could get it to emulate the PS2’s RSX chip - which is why they built the actual hardware into the original PS3 models.
And offering emulation so that they can sell PS2 games to us all over again is insidious and just plain evil - if they do it and limit it to PSN downloads so that you can’t play the same PS2 games from disk, then they deserve all the backlash that would inevitably follow.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:03 am
PS2 graphics chip emulation is quite tricky because it’s so bizarre. They could certainly do it, the question is whether they could do it well enough to get the games running at full speed.