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Sony No Longer Selling Backwards Compatible PS3s

Why is it that they can't attempt a software emulator on the 40GB? I know that they dropped the emotion chip on the 80GB PS3 and were still able to have a software emulator (taken from Wikipedia:
Like the South Korean and European models, the North American 80 GB model also excludes the PlayStation 2 "Emotion Engine" CPU chip.[54] However, it still keeps the "Graphics Synthesizer" GPU.[55] Due to emulation of the "Emotion Engine", the level of compatibility was reduced
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I mean if the 360 can have an Xbox emulator with a largely different architecture and no hardware compatibility, thenmaybe the PS3 could do the same with the PS2. I understand that to us, the PS2 is probably a harder system to emulate even though the Xbox is much more powerful because we don't really understand all ins and outs of the system as much as we do a standard x86 machine like the Xbox. However, who better to know that info than Sony's engineers?
 
devguy said:
Why is it that they can't attempt a software emulator on the 40GB? I know that they dropped the emotion chip on the 80GB PS3 and were still able to have a software emulator (taken from Wikipedia:

I mean if the 360 can have an Xbox emulator with a largely different architecture and no hardware compatibility, thenmaybe the PS3 could do the same with the PS2. I understand that to us, the PS2 is probably a harder system to emulate even though the Xbox is much more powerful because we don't really understand all ins and outs of the system as much as we do a standard x86 machine like the Xbox. However, who better to know that info than Sony's engineers?
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They could,... but then you'd have no reason to buy yet another re-release of the slimline PS2.
 
And what slimline it is too seen one today when i was in myer my origanal ps2 looks like a giant compared too it :eek:
 
Mussels said:
They could,... but then you'd have no reason to buy yet another re-release of the slimline PS2.
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true is this, want to sell people same shit again, diffrent go faster stripes it will have, so sell them sony will.
 
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