Hi all,
Just became a proud owner of a PS3 320GB roughly 1 month ago.
Enjoying FF13, Bayonetta & Little Big Planet 2 now.
These are wonderful games & I believe more wonderful stuff are to come.
But...I just found out last week, something which I would call a disaster of a revelation...
I hav not owned a playstation console b4 (not even de PSone).
But I played lots of PSone games on fren's console n renting it at game shops.
That's how I got hooked onto the FF bandwagon (FF7, 8 & 9).
Being poor, I could not afford the PS2.
And so I had to bite my teeth everytime a new FF game came out. And so it was with FF10, X-2 & 12.
I missed them, but I knew I would play them someday...even on the next gen console.
And here I m, naively believing that all PS3s are able to play PSone & PS2 games (given the more powerful hardware, it should b a piece of cake).
Running FF10 on the PS3 would b like running Starcraft on today's quad core pc!
But hell no...the PS3 can only play PS3 and PSone games.
Yes, u read it right, the PS3 can't play any of the PS2 games.
What kind of shitty backward compatibilty is this?!
The first generation of ps3 consoles were backward compatible with ps2 games. For reasons known only to sony, they took out ps2 backward compatibility later and hence forth, all ps3 manufactured until today can only play ps1 games.