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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why this will support PSP and PS1 games but not PS2? Surely it will have more than enough power to handle those?
by martijn_himself 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why this will support PSP and PS1 games but not PS2? Surely it will have more than enough power to handle those?
- icefox 13y agoCould be as simple as they still want you to buy a PS2
- Narishma 13y agoThey stopped making them earlier this year.
- Narishma 13y agoIt's not powerful enough to handle PS2 emulation. Even the PS3 can barely do it for a handful of games.
- 9999 13y agoI didn't know the PS3 did complete emulation of the PS2 at all. The earlier PS3s that supported backwards compatibility actually contained the PS2 hardware (the first gen had both the cpu and gpu, and the second gen PS3 had the GPU and used emulation for the cpu). I know that there are a lot of PS2 games in the PSN store, but I was under the impression that those were actually recompiled for the PS3 and did not use emulation. Are those actually emulated?
- Narishma 13y agoThe early ones were ports, they were recompiled and enhanced with higher resolutions and/or framerate, trophy support, etc... They're titled "HD Collection" or "HD Remastered". Many of the later ones are actually emulated. I think they're called "PS2 Classics" or some such.
- ameen 13y agoNot all PS2 titles were "updated" to support newer PS hardware. Although, once the PSN Cloud (Gaikai) launches it should have the entire PS catalog at your disposal. FYI, Vita is capable of playing PS3 titles through Gaikai.