PS3 question regarding backwards compatability

[NM]

You will in fact be able to stick a PS1/2 disc in the PS3 and play it just fine.... but there's no memory card slot. That may or may not make the game 'unplayable' depending on your POV.

You can create a "Virtual" memory card, in order to make PS1/PS2 game saves on a PS3. So the fact that there's no memory card slot isn't a problem.

[JKTrix]

Did you read what I wrote after that?

If you don't use the adapter thing to transfer your saves, you'll still be starting whatever game it was from the beginning. It's not a problem if you don't mind starting over from scratch, but if you want to continue your progress or use all those unlocked characters without the hours of replaying, you gotta use the adapter

[Yew-Yevon]

Dreddz is correct.

However, I read reports from about a couple of months ago was that the PS3 was having a lot of problems with the emulation of the older systems. It can do it, but they haven't gotten the software to work properly yet. So, to 'temporarily' solve this problem, all the launch PS3s will basically have PS2 hardware inside of them until they figure out how to make the software emulation work.
The same thing happened at the PS2's launch. The PS1 emulation software wasn't ready, so all the launch PS2s had PS1 hardware in them so they could be backwards compatible. How many people still have working PS2s from yr 2000?

I do and it works good as gold on old and new PS/PS2 games and dvd movies.

Edit: Found the link of what I read, so you don't think I'm talking out of my butt...
http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/05/r...-a-ps2-inside/
It came out of someone else's butt first :P