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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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Robo_1 said:
Thought that was to good to be true
patlike said:
Don’t be amazed if it is.
Robo_1 said:
Oh RLY…
Blerk said:
He denied it, so it must be true.
morriss said:
Yeah. E3 innit. Either that’s the best photoshop I’ve seen in a long while or it’s real, basically.
Blerk said:
Shame the games are shit, really.
morriss said:
PS2 games?
Blerk said:
All games.
morriss said:
Apart from Lego Indy, right?
Blerk said:
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?
Killerbee said:
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…
Blerk said:
A USB PS2.
Spiral said:
MGS1 was a PS1 game, so you can already play it on the PS3 and probably for a lot less than £13.
DrDamn said:
@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.
Killerbee said:
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.
Blerk said:
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.