Sony: “No plans for PS2 downloadable titles on PS3″

Thought that was to good to be true

Don’t be amazed if it is.

Oh RLY…

He denied it, so it must be true.

Yeah. E3 innit. Either that’s the best photoshop I’ve seen in a long while or it’s real, basically.

Shame the games are shit, really.

PS2 games?

All games.

Apart from Lego Indy, right?

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?

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…

A USB PS2.

MGS1 was a PS1 game, so you can already play it on the PS3 and probably for a lot less than £13.

@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.

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.

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.