With the recent Sony patent for the emulation of the Emotion Engine on the PS3, which allows software emulation of PS2 games instead of hardware, has brought out a new rumor. According to to the German website Demo News, they got a comment from a Sony employee that states that full backwards compatibility is coming to US PS3’s as a firmware update in the “next few weeks.”

With this information it could mean that with this implementation, Sony would want full backwards compatibility in all PS3 Slims by its launch. There is no denying that there is a PS3 Slim with all the recent news of Sony signing manufacturing agreements with both Foxconn and Pegatron to build a revised model in time for a July delivery.

When could all this be announced though, well  The Games Convention is the 31st of July to the 2nd of August, which they can announce it then with the price cut. This is just in time for the holidays and making GT5 a bigger possibility it will come out this year.

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