Is PlayStation 3 Backwards Compatibility Dead? Maybe Not
The one version of the PlayStation 3 that currently supports PlayStation 2 software—via emulation of the “Emotion Engine”—looks like it’s about to go the way of the dodo. Exactly how crushed should those of us be, should we want to experience PS2 classics on our future PS3s? Oh, totally crushed for now, but the future may provide a glimmer of hope, backing us away from the ledge. PlayStation Network director Eric Lempell says there are “poss
ibilities” the PS2 playing capabilities could come back to the gutted PS3 in the most recent issue of EGM.
When asked by the mag if the now BC-less console kills any chance of offering PS2 games via the PlayStation Store, as it does for original PlayStation games, Lempel said “We haven’t talked about that yet, but there are possibilities through technology and software emulation to make that possibles.”
Lempell chose not to talk about “specific plans at this point” but that doesn’t mean we can’t hope. And pray. And start online petitions.
The full interview, which is actually with Sony Computer Entertainment SVP of marketing Peter Dille—he says backward compatibility is “important to us”—is in the newest issue of EGM, which is in subscriber hands now. We hope that 1UP will publish the interview online, in-full, at some point soon. [Kotaku]
