Now, a lot of people know that Sony's Playstation 3 was the least selling of the three next generation systems, mainly because of its high expensive costs. From the get-go, this system could effectively run Playstation 2 games, which required a PS2 chip to be placed inside the PS3, which made it able to read PS2 discs; however, this also increased the price greatly.
Now, SUPPOSEDLY, there is to be another fully backwards compatible PS3 in the makings. Since the system's cutbacks on PS2 compatability in recent models, not as many people are buying them as well. Part of the reason they did do this was because of the increased cost by creating the emulation and to fix any emulation problems with the number of PS2 discs that could not be played.
Sony Corporations is in also rumored to be in production of a PS3 Slim that will hopefully hitting the market relatively soon, most places are saying July or August. The actual PRICE of the PS3 is supposed to be knocked down in August, so the bringing up of this product would make some sense if it does actually happen.
Now, regardless what Sony actually does with the PS3 is becoming a mystery all in itself. Personally, as much as a Playstation 3 Slim would make it easier for transport, I'm not quite sure how exactly performance wise that would run. It also would probably have VERY limited space for much of anything. The pictures I've seen of this "product" looks like it's going to be about half the size of the Playstation 3 now. Where did all those other important parts go??
Backwards compatability SOUNDS awesome in theory and I wish they did NOT get rid of it in the first place, but unless they fixed the bugs, I don't think they should bring it back out. Plus, if their emulation software from this PS2 chip increased the price, they better have made it so that it'd keep the price down this time or they'll have the same problems they did when it first came out. The 60GB PS3 that first came out works wonders, and if they had just continued to make it like that and were able to fix the issues and cost issues, they will easily be able to sell more of these.
Getting rid of backwords compatibility was a double edge sword for Sony. Keep and ppl bitch about the price, lose it shrink the price but have ppl bitch about the lack of PS2 support. God for bid they kept PS1 emulation!
ReplyDeleteMy personal thoughts on this is that if this alternative PS2 Emulation does exist, then it will come through as firmware, NOT as and added ability for the next generation PS3. My reason for this is because the latest PS3 firmware is 2.80. Now with that number you would think that Sony wont dissapoint with their 3.00 firmware. Also the idea of adding it a new version of the system would probably piss of alot of ppl (including myself)
However if it does come to being Hardware exclusive then I wouldnt completely mind trading in my ps3 for a slim DEPENDING on what the Slim has to offer. For example PSP-2000 (second gen PSP) Offered internal memory for games and the ability to use Skype, more XMB waves, and Component cables to connect to a television. It was also a hell of alot lighter,smaller, and brighter.
Hardware does become smaller overtime, just look at the PSP and Ipods, and they can keep functionality of the originals and sometimes more.