Well THAT'S disappointing...

[seawasp]

The responses to my prior post on videogame consoles has revealed that Sony, apparently, has decided to shoot itself in the foot again; having created the PS3 with backwards compatibility, they've now removed all or much of that capability.

This means that I will almost certainly NOT be getting a PS3, or at least not in the near future, unless I happen across one of the first-generation systems with full hardware compatibility.

And alas the Wii appears to be hard to get indeed.

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What I've heard isn't quite that bad. They are shooting themselves in the foot with a .22 instead of a 30-06. From what I've been hearing the software emulation is up to speed for 90% instead of the 99% that the hardware allowed. So you only have access to 900 out of a thousand games instead of 990 out of a thousand.

If there are specific PS2 games that you are interested in you might look to see if there are any reports of how they run before writing the PS3 off entirely.