Just Bought A PS3 Last Night

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Friends don't let friends play last-gen on current-gen hardware. Just say no.

The chart here though is pure comedy. What a complete mess. PS3 fail.

And honestly, have you never fired up an excellent old game when the current ones just aren't cutting it? Do graphics really hinder your enjoyment of old, but great, games that much?

For me they absolutely do. Old games to me are like loading up Nirvana as if it's 1993 and pretending I want to hear it. I just can't.

Well to each their own. I will revisit a game if it was good. Graphics mean nothing when you have an engaging story line and awesome gameplay.

This x 99999.

I don't get how you could let graphics get in the way of a good game. What is considered "good graphics" is so volatile that letting it rule your gaming experience is like letting a blind schizophrenic suffering from bipolarity drive.

Outdated controls or clunky UI i can understand, but graphics? I just played SS2 recently and it was one of the best games I've ever played, despite the "lame gfx d00d".

 

[tk149]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: tk149

AFAIK, the MGS4 80GB version used only software emulation for backwards compatibility. Only the original 60GB version had a hardware PS2 chip inside.

I find it really bizarre that Sony already had software backwards compatibility, and then nixed it in the newer PS3's. I really think it was a stupid move on their part. How much more would it have added to the cost?

It was partial software and partial hardware in the 80 GB. The 60 GB had both the GPU and the CPU from the PS2; the 80 GB apparently had one or the other, but not both (I don't know which it had).

I stand corrected, thank you. Still, how much could the extra chip have cost? They alienated a whole segment of their potential customers, who would have eventually upgraded to a PS3 from a dying PS2, or just wanted to upscale PS2 games. Now all these PS2 owners have no reason to stay loyal to Sony. Maybe Sony's strategy is to just keep selling PS2's for the next 5 years.

It also tells me that all my PS3 games will not be supported in the PS4. Screw you, Sony!

EDIT: The info was in the Wiki article previously linked:

Like the South Korean and European models, the North American 80 GB model also excludes the PlayStation 2 "Emotion Engine" CPU chip.[59] However, it still keeps the "Graphics Synthesizer" GPU.[60] Due to emulation of the "Emotion Engine", the level of compatibility was reduced

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Friends don't let friends play last-gen on current-gen hardware. Just say no.

The chart here though is pure comedy. What a complete mess. PS3 fail.

And honestly, have you never fired up an excellent old game when the current ones just aren't cutting it? Do graphics really hinder your enjoyment of old, but great, games that much?

For me they absolutely do. Old games to me are like loading up Nirvana as if it's 1993 and pretending I want to hear it. I just can't.

Well to each their own. I will revisit a game if it was good. Graphics mean nothing when you have an engaging story line and awesome gameplay.

This x 99999.

I don't get how you could let graphics get in the way of a good game. What is considered "good graphics" is so volatile that letting it rule your gaming experience is like letting a blind schizophrenic suffering from bipolarity drive.

Outdated controls or clunky UI i can understand, but graphics? I just played SS2 recently and it was one of the best games I've ever played, despite the "lame gfx d00d".

Amen to that. Shit, I still play my old Infocom text games on WinXP. No graphics, just text. It's called using your imagination.