Phil Harrison gives figures for PS3 BC

Sony Worldwide boss says that software emulation will mean more than 1,000 PS2 games will be playable on PS3s on EU launch day, says people are "overreacting."

Last week Sony announced that the PlayStation 3 consoles sold at the European and Australasian launches would feature a different hardware specification than the models previously released in Japan and the US.

It later confirmed that this difference would be the removal of the Emotion Engine--the name given to the PlayStation 2 chipset--and that it would be concentrating on next-gen games for the console. This announcement led to intense speculation about the level of backward compatibility available on the new model PS3s, and Sony's admission that it would be "limited" gave rise to concerns that a wide range of PS2 games wouldn't therefore be playable on the new console.

Sony Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison has now given out numbers--he told semiofficial blog Three Speech that more than 1,000 PS2 games will be playable on the new models at launch, with further updates over time adding more to the list.

He told the blog, "Our thinking involves being able to bring the latest hardware specification of the PS3 to Europe, although that does mean an initial slight reduction in the number of PS2 components. But it's important to put that into context: there will still be thousands of PlayStation and PS2 titles playable on the PS3 at launch. It's very easy to over-react."

The full list of compatible games will go live on a Web site on the same day as the PS3 launch, and Harrison refused to be drawn on which titles this would be likely to include. However, he did confirm that the company would be concentrating on "big" titles.

Harrison also confirmed that cost was one of the main reasons for the removal of the Emotion Engine. He laughed off comments that the engine "can't possibly cost you more than a few pence to manufacture" by saying "if only that was the case."

Harrison did not mention whether the US and Japanese models would now also be manufactured without the Emotion Engine.

341 Comments

  • andrewwg94

    Posted Sep 9, 2007 9:05 am PT

    sony did it once with the ps1, twice with the ps2, and they'll do it again with the ps3. it's just simple logic. both the ps1 and ps2 were off to a slow start like the ps3. nothing to worry about. any ways, i'm luck to have gotten my ps3 with that emotion chip thing.

  • SaitouZero

    Posted Mar 3, 2007 11:40 am PT

    I have quite a bit of PS2 games so I'm happy that my PS3 has the Emotion Engine, but I was just thinking that if the PS2 games were being rendered by the RSX, they could make use of the scaler and be upscaled to 720p like XBOX games on the 360. So maybe it's not such a bad thing; I'd sure love to play FFXII in 720p.

  • Deanol

    Posted Mar 3, 2007 6:37 am PT

    Just as long as God Of War 2 is playable on Euro PS3's then i'm happy. BC doesn't bother me that much except unlike the X360 where the original XBOX was pretty much killed off as soon as it was released, Sony are still making games for the PS2 and most people who will buy a PS3 won't keep their PS2's so BC will be the only way for most PS3 owners to play these new PS2 games (i.e. God Of War 2, Manhunt 2, etc). But I would like to think that Sony will do the right thing and just make these newer PS2 games compatible with the PS3, considering that unlike the older PS2 games, the PS3 is now out and they would know exactly what to do to make these games BC.

  • NinjaFoot

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 11:31 pm PT

    "Motorstorm(as i said earlier) LOOKS awesome. But, ON THE SONY DEMO UNIT THAT I STARE AT DAY AFTER DAY IN OUR STORE, the frame rate drops CONSIDERABLE when you start a race(because there are multiple polygons and massive physic mathmatics going on). If you cant see the slow down, its because you dont want to, plain and simple."

    I dont know about in store demos, but the Motorstorm demo on my ps3 at home does none of the things you say it does. And it;s not because I dont want to. I dont really care if it does or doesnt. I just know what my eyes see. And believe me, I was looking for stuff like that.

  • interstate78

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 8:31 pm PT

    I also work in retail like Autolycus and I concur: Sony's consoles are junk. Much of what you say makes sense Autolycus but you sound like a rabid mad Sony hater. I'm with you though. Sony's Ps2 sold because,... it sold. That's it. It's a domino effect: You sell consoles > they make games for it > you sell more consoles > they make more games for it. That's where the PS3 is NOT right now. Unless it has killer games AND a price drop it will die off and be the 2000s' Neo Geo. No matter what you say or think, 600 $ is too high a price to take over the market.

    for the record: I personally haven't sold a PS3 in over a month and furthermore, I have not received a single phone call by someone who wanted to buy one. We sold one Virtua Fighter 5 and that's supposed to be a "hit".

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 1:00 pm PT

    ok

  • buckincrazy

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 12:32 pm PT

    Autolycus you don't know crap

    and how long did it take you to post that, get a life man

  • bigdawg1124

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 10:09 am PT

    I would rather have 1000 games plus original playstation titles at launch than 300 titles(being generous here) a year and something after launch lol

    BTW i own BOTH a 360 and PS3 so dont give me this crap oh youre a fanboy......

  • Autolycus

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 10:01 am PT

    GoW isn't God of War. You sure are quick to pick a fight, but if you followed ALL consoles, not just Sony you would know that GoW = Gears of wars. and if someone says GOW and overated, it is DEFINETLY Gears of war. Get your head out of sony world and welcome back to reality. You can think I am a fanboy all you want, i dont care.



    I HAVE REPAIRED MULTIPLE SONY MADE PRODUCTS. DOWN TO THE CIRCUIT BOARDS AND SOLDER. Heck I used to do it for a living. THE PS3 isnt all that. The graphics card is already outdated (xb360's kind of is kind of isnt. there isnt another consumer graphics card out there with that many pipelines, which is 48 for those of you who dont know. If i remember correctly, the ps3 has 12. which is pretty standard. I LOVE nvidia, but the ONLY thing that has POTENTIAL(doesnt mean it is) to be better is the CeLL processor. HOWEVER, its too different.



    Let me get this your skulls. Companies make games to make money. Not to make blu-ray. Not to make Sony money. Not for fan boys, FOR THEMSELVES. ITS CALLED BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE! Developing for the PS3 is sooo different in programming logic(which i have done too, on normal processors(read NOT CELL)) that for a team to make a profit, they HAVE to put it out on the system with the most amount of users and that is NOT, repeat is NOT PS3. Its Wii(which still sells out and we still receive 10-20 calls a day asking if we have in stock, from different people) and its XB360.



    Motorstorm(as i said earlier) LOOKS awesome. But, ON THE SONY DEMO UNIT THAT I STARE AT DAY AFTER DAY IN OUR STORE, the frame rate drops CONSIDERABLE when you start a race(because there are multiple polygons and massive physic mathmatics going on). If you cant see the slow down, its because you dont want to, plain and simple. Regardless it still only brings 1 good looking(lack of replay value) game to the PS3. It still doesnt justify a typical customer to spend 700 dollars without a game(sales tax or second controller). Yes, we get it, you bought a PS3 and you are finally excited because 1 great looking game(with crummy replay value) is coming out. Granted you could get THP8 for replay value.



    I am a harsh critic. I have played over 500 PC games and console games in my life. As much as I hate consumers, I still want what is best for you. Take DEUS Ex for example. Probably one of the greatest games ever made(including the ps2 version) and hardly anyone bought it. Look at madden, a game that has CONSISTANTLY been the same game year after year with horrid updates and rancid animations, but it sets record sales year after year.



    However, as I have said earlier, its a goal in my life to inform consumers just how crappy SONY truely is. I know what most people dont (circuit board manufacture, lense manfucture, the motor used to read the optical drive, etc). I have FIRST HAND experienced well over 100 people have to send their PS2 unit in for warranty because of poorly made product. A few, is usually the consumers fault, but OVER 100? give me a break. Sony in the 80's up to early 90's was great. Then they started getting greedy and everything good in their products went straight out the window. IF YOU DONT KNOW FOR SURE(like i do), DON'T EVEN BOTHER COMPLAING BACK because you simply DONT KNOW.

  • microwaveman

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 10:00 am PT

    over 1000 titles? that kicks the crap out of the number of 360 BC.

  • gashi2000

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 9:25 am PT

    i don't care if the play station dosent sell good anywhere as long as i get one and the games are good i don't really care if no one buy's the console cuz i will. if dmc 4 resi 5 mgs 4 are very good than i dont care about anything else.

  • jackfatal

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 8:29 am PT

    where is the xbox 360 fans in here??i will hunt them 1 by 1!! i jut want to hear one bad thing about the ps3!! and iwill pen fire ont them!!

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 8:08 am PT

    1000... That's good. Wait.... Sony, when you say "1000 games" you mean 1000, not 700, don't you? Because the PS3 launch seemed to follow the 1000=700 logic.

  • SPANNER-MAN

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 7:18 am PT

    Want to bet it won't be 1 thousand like they claim. Sony is like Lex Luthor on Smallville, they get away with everything because they can afford to.

  • TTDog

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 6:45 am PT

    Just a side thought, the picture on the news peice on the News menu just screams "Psychotic Murderer" to me. Its not a good shot.

  • Seabread

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 5:40 am PT

    waiting til launch day to release the BC list eh? sounds dodgy to me. "there will still be thousands of PlayStation and PS2 titles playable on the PS3 at launch"
    PH has basically promised a minimum of 2000 titles ON LAUNCH DAY. but we all know what Fony's like for keeping their promises...

  • matrixman2k

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 5:05 am PT

    if ps3 don't do well in Europe this guy might become unemployed. ha ha ha...possibly.

  • TTDog

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 4:19 am PT

    You'd like to think that the wonderous software titles that are "Barbie Horse Adventures" and "Crazy Frog Racer" are titles that work by coincidence, that the team were working away to ensure that Kingdm Hearts of Chronicles Of Riddick (no console bias here) work on the emulator and that said god awful peice of software now runs... as well.

    I'd hate to think that there was someone who thinks, sod GOW, sod KOTOR, I want to race round a track pretending to be an insane frog, and then ride through a forest pretending to be a lump of badly moulded plastic.

  • NinjaFoot

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 4:14 am PT

    "Is BC really that much of a big deal?"

    Normally I would say no, but what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Sony AND it's fanboys have been insulting Microsoft's BC methods for months now, all the while bragging up how they will be 100% BC. Just because you change your method to the exact method you have been insulting for months, you dont get to magically take a different view. Sony has set themselves up for this particular ridicule. And I am not taking an anti Sony stance here either. I own a ps3, along with 360. I have no reason to be biased. Think about it. If you go to work or school badmouthing someone for something and then start doing the same thing a few months later, you lose the right to say people are unjustly criticizing you just because YOU do it now. These are just the facts of life.

  • GrimBee

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 4:10 am PT

    With updates, Sony can correct any mistakes that they make. In a way, you are looking at a completely different approach to a console than with the ps2.

    I am the type of person who loves retro consoles, arcades, I am a "collector", a "geek" someone who likes things to change - but only for the benefit of the game.

    With updates, especially PSP-like updates (where you HAVE to update with each new game purchased, otherwise you cant play) - For me this ruins consoles.

    Fair enough - like with backwards compatibility, you can expect things to be updated and fixed eventually. But I hate grey areas!! I HATE THEM! Updates, even from Nintendo, Microsoft (especially with windows, but thats a completely different kettle of virus-fish) are extremely strange.

    A PSP update can add things like a new option in the menu, ability to change background colours - etc. Shouldnt of these things of been included in the first place?!
    Updates allow manufacturers and designers to be extremely lazy, this means - Sony now have the free-will to say that the ps3 can do ANYTHING, because of the POSSIBILITY of an update. Sony, by law (check it) can add and remove ANY aspect of the ps3 firmware as and when they like!

    I hate this.

    I loved the days when I could buy a console, stick in a game and thats it! It plays, and those consoles still play just as well - even today. Infact, I played one only a few hours ago!

    The only thing you had to worry about was if and when more games and liscences were coming onto the console. Who wants to wake up to "an update is required to play this game, please connect your console to the internet for the update to be applied"? I really don't like updates.

    Sony can basically say "ps3 is a faithful ps2 console aswell", because EVENTUALLY you can play all the games, with updates. By law they have a water-tight clause with the possibility of updates fixing and adding anything whenever they like.

    Personally, for such an expensive system - and coming from a generation where "you get what you pay for", I expect the most expensive system to offer the best functionality and features over the last product.
    Sony TV's - the more you pay for - the better the product is. OUT OF THE BOX, no internet, no updates. You feel like you now OWN that Tv set.

    I hate to burst any bubbles here, but its not just Sony that irritates me with updates, its all 3 manufacturers. Nintendo can be lazy by adding things here and there, Microsoft can aswell - but generally most of their updates are non-threatening.
    I found the PSP updates to be threatening in a way that I didnt feel that the console was actually finished, or even mine - the constant feeling of "are you playing a legal game? hmm? let me check for you..." updates really bugged me, as a consumer. Its like a Walmart employee checking all your bags as you leave to see if you DID pay for the products.

    Updates are good because you can get MORE out of the actual product.
    But for those "out of the box" people who want quality, get what they payed for service on day 1 - updates are very annoying, because it leaves questions up in the air about "why didn't sony actually sort out the BC before? wasn't this one of their most famous features?".

    For me - Backwards compatibility on a ps3 SHOULD be 100%, heck - it is a massive selling point for a Playstation product. It is the same as Nintendo saying "not ALL mario games on the gamecube work on the wii, oopsy!".

    Backwards compatibility on the Wii is nigh-on perfect from day 1. And the console is £179.99.

    For a console costing you £425, I would like a little more than perfection. For me, grey areas - no matter how small - shouldnt be there on such an expensive luxury item.
    I hope you guys can see what I mean, some of us choose not to connect a console to the internet for whatever reason, some of us just dont have a connection going to the console all the time. Especially coming from the old console generation - even ps2 - I reckon for Sony to tout the ps3 as being such an AWESOME and SPECTACULAR console over the competition - it could of at least got its most famous feature 100% compatible.

    Microsoft are not selling the 360 as a "its an all in one, replacement for the xbox". Sony are selling the ps3 as a super console which does everything and more, but they are ending up worse than the cheapest console on the market.

  • NinjaFoot

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 4:09 am PT

    "Is BC really that much of a big deal?"

    Normally I would say no, but what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Sony AND it's fanboys have been insulting Microsoft's BC methods for months now, all the while bragging up how they will be 100% BC. Just because you change your method to the exact method you have been insulting for months, you dont get to magically take a different view. Sony has set themselves up for this particular ridicule. And I am not taking an anti Sony stance here either. I own a ps3, along with 360. I have no reason to be biased. Think about it. If you go to work or school badmouthing someone for something and then start doing the same thing a few months later, you lose the right to say people are unjustly criticizing you just because YOU do it now. These are just the facts of life.

  • TTDog

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 3:49 am PT

    This would have gone down so much better if instead of saying over a 1000 games would work, he'd like... named any of them.

    All he needed to do was to say "over a 1000 games will work at launch so those people who've just bought FF12 or Okami have nothing to worry about".

    But then you'd get all the retards saying... well why did he just mention them, what about GOW or MGS3... etc. etc.

  • Omniel_YHVH

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 3:44 am PT

    That's only 40% of all the EU games.

    Less than half. Not a majority, a minority. I just find it amazing that the PS3 is so much more "Technologically advanced" than the competitors, but the folks at Sony can't seem to find the spare cycles to properly emulate it's relatively tech-handicapped predecessor. Not even halfway.

    Let's hope it's not the Barbie Backwood Princess Adventures and Omega Deer Hunter XXXtreme 40% either. I still think that all of the recent Sony blunders are a big sociological experiment on the world's consumers regarding reaction to crappy news. That's the only way I can even see them screwing themselves this much.

    They cut the expense of hardware BC to keep the amazingly expensive, difficult to produce, not quite universally supported Blu-ray medium which hasn't even served the test of time. It wasn't just a business move to make PS3 less expensive to make, but to hopefully bolster Blu-ray, which could quickly turn into UMD, MiniDisk and Betamax if Sony doesn't doesn't get their crap together.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the Emotion engine gets ripped out of the next batch to hit NA and the Asian markets very shortly. Get'em while they don't suck even more.

  • TTDog

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 3:43 am PT

    NinjaFoot "only xbox fanboy's could overreact to this by trying to say that the "other" console is better. wii is good coz it has a unique style of gameplay. Ps3 is good coz it has the best graphics/features/power. 360 is just s**t"

    Am I the only one who sees the irony in the above post???? I'm practically swimming in the irony, the author of the original post probably thinks that IRONY is something you do when your clothes are a bit creased.

  • asimplerapper

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 3:40 am PT

    ps3 sucks!

  • samad5

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 3:05 am PT

    You would have thought so but apparently 2500 games have been launched on the PS2 in Europe. Man thats a lot of games.

  • onlineps2player

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 2:26 am PT

    1000 games are enough, aren't they?!!

  • PixyMisao

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 2:01 am PT

    I remember when backwards compatible meant "fully" backwards compatible, and not "half the time" backwards compatible with such "gaming classics" as Aquaman and Catwoman.

  • DominusSabathan

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 1:25 am PT

    i want new games god damn it

  • TimoTheThug

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 1:12 am PT

    This is great, Sony is catching up and coming back to the game and settle it all for us loyal fans. Great news!

  • mac24

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 12:52 am PT

    Autolycus,
    Though I won't deny about Sony's latest blunder, I can't help but wonder about your WEAK, pure BS anti-Sony bias. Let me first start about your opinion about God of War as "overrated" and "looks bad". Although I believe in the proverbial saying that "beauty lies in the beholder", how can you call God of War as overrated when the MAJORITY (keyword is MAJORITY) of people liked it, and that it received great reviews from magazines and gaming websites including Gamespot. Now, a lot of people/gamers will agree that the word 'overrated' are reserved for products that didn't live up to its hype (Killzone for PS2 is an example). God of War, on the other hand, exceeded, or least met the expectations of a LOT of gamers. Hell, even people who despises the PS3 (and owns a 360) are waiting to play God of War II. How would you feel if I call Gears of War (a fine game, BTW) as an overrated game? Before you answer that, I did a little investigation on you by clicking on your screen name and by looking at your games, you're a....360 FANBOY!! So going back to my question, I think you would feel pretty upset!! And about your opinion about Motorstorm as boring after a few minutes (and after analyzing your post a little bit more), I realized that you're not into off-road racing (which is the central point of the title)!! Sure, running around the same tracks after a few hours will be boring if you're not into dirt road racing games, much the same way a person who is not into golf or tennis would feel bored right away when playing video games based on those sports. Now looking at one of your reviewed games (I used Prey as an example) and using your same, lame logic to review games, I would say Prey is a "pretty damn boring game since all you do is shoot". And about the fact that you (I assume) work at gamestop and that 20gig pS3 doesn't have HDMI.... guess what? HAHAHAHA!! WRONG! All PS3s have an HDMI output, and I highly doubt that you actually work at Gamestop (you would know the basics of a console that you're trying to sell even if you don't like it or you're really stupid and deserves to be fired). Not that I have something against 360 owners (I'm planning to get a 360 myself in a couple of months, and hopefully no 'ring of death'), but if you want to rant, please check your facts. Otherwise, you're shooting yourself and being not that much different from your nemesis, Sony.

  • RaNaBiR

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 12:41 am PT

    Is BC really that much of a big deal?

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 10:58 pm PT

    The reason people are angry is because Sony made such a big song and dance about how the PS3 would be fully backwards compatable, and then they suddenly come out with "Oh, actually it isn't, ha ha, got ya!" It is just one of many slaps in the face for European gamers.

  • fuman3

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 10:52 pm PT

    Of course leave it to gamespot to blast negative PS3 once again and get it blown out of perportion

  • NinjaFoot

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 10:50 pm PT

    "only xbox fanboy's could overreact to this by trying to say that the "other" console is better. wii is good coz it has a unique style of gameplay. Ps3 is good coz it has the best graphics/features/power. 360 is just s**t"

    Am I the only one who sees the irony in the above post????

  • mikethemonkey

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 10:49 pm PT

    The question I ask...Do we really care to play old games on a new system..I don't. Besides, you most likely own the console for the game you want to play.It's all just stupid. This goes for Xbox ,Playstation and Nintendo.The reason we buy new consoles is to play NEW games. Come on people..Get real! Stop all this crying about playing last gen games..If the system you bought is good enough you won't have time to play last year games.

  • Latinbro1

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 10:05 pm PT

    Like i said on that article about the EE chip being removed form Euro PS3, we won't play every single game out for the psx and ps2 on the ps3. However, it is unfair that the price has increased for what people feel is a less complete piece of hardware in terms of specs. It truly is and there's no way around it However, in the long wrong, putting the price point aside (knowing it is still a hard pill to swallow), if the Euro PS3 plays 1,000 games (both psx and ps2) to me that is 950 games more than I own and 900 more games that I would ever consider playing. Now, if sony ever planned on having the ps3's cell communicate w/ the EE chp (which I don't really know if it's possible) to add processing power, than yes Euro would be losing big time. Hopefully Euro will get a price drop earlier because of the removal of the EE chip though.

  • infrared13

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 9:24 pm PT

    Autolycus -you are wrong, Motor storm does not drop in frame rate on or offline , maybe your human eye needs a checkup, but it is prob more then likely you havn't even played the game demo and are a fanboy of the 360 or wii or you got a cheap LCD TV with bad refresh. Also your wrong again it does have the HDMI port - every PS3 does. Go sell BS somewhere else. As a gamer (that has a 360 and PS3)I don't see how any true gamer can not see the greatness of God of War, you have to learn not to be such a fanboy - you deny yourself some great games and diss some great developers

    If you want to read a review of people that did playMotorstorm then check out IGN they also said about MStorm "Really, there are very, very few racing titles (or even games in general) around that deliver as engaging an experience as MotorStorm. There's really no better way to put it than that."

  • DS_fan_atic

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 8:45 pm PT

    0 sympathy

  • Runningflame570

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 8:39 pm PT

    If they manage to do that I would say its pretty good, though I'm not saying they'll achieve it at this point. Who knows though? They have been working on it for quite some time now.

  • ddt88

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 8:02 pm PT

    Sony lie about everything. I trust them as far as I can throw them. The specs keeping changing for the Australian launch and are nothing compared to the original launch specs for the US. At A$1000 for the launch, this is going to tank big style Down Under. Only for Fan boys I'm afraid...

  • SIG45

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 7:00 pm PT

    So this entire occurrence is simply replacing hardware with a software solution, like any good electronics company should. Eventually, all Playstation and PS2 titles will be emulated on PS3. For the time being, just play them on your PS or PS2. If for some reason you got rid of either or both machines, then wait. It can't be that hard. Personally, I am sad that I couldn't wait for the 65nm process Cell processors and got a 90nm one, but I can't change that. The PS3's firmware update, and the new partnership with Immersion, will bring Sony's console back up to speed with the other two machines out there. Rumble, full backwards compatability and extreme revisions of the Playstation Network will put everything on a level playing field, leaving only the big black box's superior graphics and processing abilities to beat out the others.

    However, like this article, everything comes down to the games. We all know by now that Sony will not fail with this console or as a company. Sony has its talons too deep in the cliff face for that. What will decide whether or not which console wins is the availability of exclusive titles and better versions of multiplatform titles, which the PS3 will have this year. I can't wait for all those games and will get every multiplatform title on PS3, unless the Xbox 360 has something better to offer. The Wii's initial spurt of success won't put it through the year ahead. As I read one journalist write, the rest of the year for the Wii is 80% crap and 20% pure genius. That 20% is Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Mario Galaxy, tired franchises that show Nintendo's lack of creativity and need of a catharsis.

  • Trading_Zoner

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 6:55 pm PT

    HELL MUTHA FUGGIN YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Primenova

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 3:26 pm PT

    Harrison is full of it. The Emotion Engine does cost Sony money to make, but why the price increase? European PS3s cost more. They are getting less functionality for the price increase, even if "1000 PS2 titles" are playable. One thousand is nowhere near the total amount of PS2 games available, even accounting for the ones not released in Europe. I understand the expense of the other hardware keeping Sony from dropping the price, including the cost of the software emulation (which isn't easy to develop). But there seems to be no justification for the Europeans getting an increase in price. Maybe Sony delayed the European launch so they could spend the five months working hard on software emulation, but increasing the cost after eliminating hardware to save money? When the newer models of PS3 come out in Japan and US without the Emotion Engine in them, I'd love to see Sony give us a price increase. All they did by increasing the price is boost demand for 360s and Wiis in Europe.

  • Vorador47

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 3:26 pm PT

    "HuhJustaBox In fact to even claim fight night looks the same would be a gross exaggeration--it looks great on 360, but it looks flawless on the PS3."

    saying gamespot is bias because of what they said about fight night, is a bit off. the 360 and the ps3 versions each have thier differences, the PS3 version has slightly better Textures, but the 360 one has far better lighting in backgrounds.

    so no the PS3 version is not flawless, it just has slightly better textures on the character models, not hard as the ps3 one was released 3 months later, textures are just textures after all, but the fact the ps3 couldn't produce the same lighting effects or backgrounds, does say something, so i dont think gamespot were beinf bias at all.

    now you may want to believe the PS3 version is flawless, but go look at the 2 picks gamespot posted, at look the lights, the banners hanging down the wall and the crowd

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