http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23003

Sony has realised that the ridiculously expensive ps3 is a huge mistake, and are making changes for europe that will probably dovetail into the US and japan soon.

What they are doing is removing the PS2 hardware that they put inside (to enable ps2 games to work on the system) and using an emulation method like MS did with the 360. This will bring down manufacturing costs so they wont take as much of a loss with each sale, and also so they will be able to actually manufacture more units than before.

THE PRICE WILL STILL BE THE SAME. In fact it will be more expensive in europe, with Greeks expected to pay the equivalent of 675 pounds, convert to dollars if you like (!!!!)

They will publish a backwards compatibility list soon. Lets pray their emulator is as good as the 360 one, remember MS bought connectix and are in control of the virtual PC emulator for macs, the 360 is like a mac (ppc) and the xbox is like a pc (intel). Sony is however just jumping into the water with this one, do they have the skill to do good software emulation or are they just going to fashi backwards compatibility?


the ps3 saga becomes more and more mind-boggling as time passes!

PS all you guys who bought US and japanese ps3s already- their value may soon go up!

software emulation should be easy on the powerful multicore ps3 but it's going to take some mad skillz to emulate the emotion engine with a very unfriendly ps3 dev environment