Bad news for European PS3 fans

[McLovin']

Wow just wow.

The games are American not PAL.

American games work fine on an American PS....

Except you really don't get the point here. Yes imported American games will work just fine on an imported American PS3. All the games they bought over the years for the PSX and PS2 in the PAL format won't though. Therefore, buying an American PS3 does nothing to get around initial BC issues since they don't have North American PSX or PS2 games. Is that clear enough now?

Sorry but I don't understand. You're saying PAL doesn't work on the American PS. Yeah thanks I knew that. That is why I said I can import the games from America and play them in Europe and use a transformer to plug it in.

[Slothy]

Sorry but I don't understand. You're saying PAL doesn't work on the American PS. Yeah thanks I knew that. That is why I said I can import the games from America and play them in Europe and use a transformer to plug it in.

This thread is about the fact that the PS3 in Europe will have limited backwards compatability, at least at launch. For some reason, you suggested getting an American PS3, but this doesn't solve the backwards compatability issue since people in Europe who already own a lot of PAL PSX and PS2 games won't be able to play them at all on an American PS3 as opposed to at least being able to play some on a European PS3. And nobody should have to scower Ebay for American copies of games they already own. If you don't see now why your suggestion makes no sense with regards to the topic at hand then I give up. I can't make it any clearer.

[McLovin']

Oh alright.

[Roto13]

Oh alright. :greenie:

XD

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be mean, but that took FOREVER!

[Slicksword45]

I just found this: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23148

Just to shorten it:

Sony's president of worldwide studios Phil Harrison has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will support over 1000 PS2 titles when it's launched on March 23.

With the PS2's emotion engine - the CPU - taken out of the PlayStation 3, Sony is relying on in-built emulation to play PlayStation 2 games on the console, and it's confident regular updates will mean a steady stream of classic titles for the machine.
"We're working to introduce a resource to the Web to detail which titles will have backwards compatibility. And as we make firmware upgrades, we will be able to add to that list," said Harrison

So there pulling an Xbox360 with the bc. And the list can be updated with updatse, so there will be BC, just limited.

[Slothy]

1,000 titles already? Well, at least they're going to be doing a lot better out of the box then Microsoft did when they launched.

[Dreddz]

1,000 titles already? Well, at least they're going to be doing a lot better out of the box then Microsoft did when they launched.

Thats not the point, the point it that its less superior to its NA counterparts.

[Slothy]

1,000 titles already? Well, at least they're going to be doing a lot better out of the box then Microsoft did when they launched.

Thats not the point, the point it that its less superior to its NA counterparts.

And despite my post looking at the bright side, what part of what I said made it sound like only 1,000 titles was in any way a good thing overall. Most of the time, doing better than Microsoft at something is like beating a snail in the 100m dash.

[Yew-Yevon]

1,000 titles already? Well, at least they're going to be doing a lot better out of the box then Microsoft did when they launched.

Thats not the point, the point it that its less superior to its NA counterparts.

And despite my post looking at the bright side, what part of what I said made it sound like only 1,000 titles was in any way a good thing overall. Most of the time, doing better than Microsoft at something is like beating a snail in the 100m dash.

LOL Dosn't say much about MS= (the snail)

[Fatal Impurity]

I personally think this sucks ass...as for why the PSP had better emulation for the PS1 at launch than the PS3 does...well THAT is a mystery!

[Maxico]

I for one, think that 1000 is too many! BOYCOTT THE PS3!

I personally think this sucks ass...as for why the PSP had better emulation for the PS1 at launch than the PS3 does...well THAT is a mystery!

Apparantly, PS1 emulation on the PS3 is near perfect. I think that at this point they have PS1 emulation down, but PS2 emulation is more difficult.