Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Sony offers emulation reassurance

Sony has provided a list of all PlayStation 2 games that will work on its PlayStation 3 console in Europe.

The machine launches in the continent on Friday and will be able to play more than 1,700 games designed for the PS2.

Concern was expressed following Sony's decision to run older games through more unreliable emulation software rather than via a dedicated chip.

David Reeves, president of PlayStation in Europe, said the backwards compatibility list was significant.

"We will be adding additional titles to this list in future firmware upgrades," he said.

"But as we have made clear before, in the future our resources will be increasingly focused on developing new services and entertainment features exclusively for PS3, rather than on delivering PS2 backwards compatibility."

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From : BBCNEWS

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