PS3

Voy06 · 27 May 2006 at 11:26

Does anyone know if you will be able to play PS2 games on the PS3 or is it still early days yet?

Thanks.

McDaniel · 27 May 2006 at 11:27

Yes, as far as i know - Completely backwards compatible

Memphis · 27 May 2006 at 11:27

Yep, last info is that you can.

Voy06 · 27 May 2006 at 11:37

I was hoping it would be. Thanks for the confirmation

WHAT!!! · 27 May 2006 at 11:48

They have said its compatible with PS1 & PS2 games.

MJ · 27 May 2006 at 15:41

but then again they say a lot of things

Macca · 27 May 2006 at 23:21

MJ said:
but then again they say a lot of things

Then again Ps2 done it, but hey Xbox360 managed it very well :rolleyes:

Psyk · 27 May 2006 at 23:52

Macca said:
Then again Ps2 done it, but hey Xbox360 managed it very well

The problem with the 360 was because of legal issues. Sony won't have this problem as afaik the CPU and GPU were Sony's own design.

Energize · 28 May 2006 at 03:33

Psyk said:
The problem with the 360 was because of legal issues. Sony won't have this problem as afaik the CPU and GPU were Sony's own design.

The ps3s gpu is a modified 7800gtx made by nvidia, the cpu was made with ibm and toshibia. I heard the 360s problems were because the xbox and 360 used different operating systems, whereas the ps1/ps2 ran off a rom chip.

wedgie · 28 May 2006 at 03:44

As far as i know the problem with the 360 is mainly due to the fact that the original xbox had an Nvidia graphics chip, while the 360 is ATI (i think). Backwords compatability has to be done by emulation which is why there are problems with some games, whilst others just don't work at all.

NokkonWud · 28 May 2006 at 04:02

wedgie22 said:
As far as i know the problem with the 360 is mainly due to the fact that the original xbox had an Nvidia graphics chip, while the 360 is ATI (i think). Backwords compatability has to be done by emulation which is why there are problems with some games, whilst others just don't work at all.

Spot on.

Psyk · 28 May 2006 at 14:03

Energize said:
The ps3s gpu is a modified 7800gtx made by nvidia, the cpu was made with ibm and toshibia. I heard the 360s problems were because the xbox and 360 used different operating systems, whereas the ps1/ps2 ran off a rom chip.

Aye but the PS2 had a completely proprietary GPU hence there are no legal issues about backwards compatibility. As wedgie22 said the problem with the Xbox compatibility is the GPU. Different OSes wouldn't be a problem since MS own both they can make them compatible with each other.

JUMPURS · 28 May 2006 at 14:11

wedgie22 said:
As far as i know the problem with the 360 is mainly due to the fact that the original xbox had an Nvidia graphics chip, while the 360 is ATI (i think). Backwords compatability has to be done by emulation which is why there are problems with some games, whilst others just don't work at all.

i thought it was because it was moving from an x86 environment or close to it, to a power PC format. I dare say its a wierd mix of both.
Sony got around it by putting a PS chip in a PS2 so they didnt have to emulate