There are over 7,900 PS1 titles and over 8,100 PS2 titles.
Great so that number makes up almost every PS2 game.

That's a total of 16,000 games. Of those, 100-200 have reported bugs - keep in mind that could be even the smallest of bugs - and those bugs are being worked on and for all I know, that news story I linked in my last post means that some of these have already been corrected. Let's assume that they haven't been corrected - not a single one of them - in the latest firmware update for PS3 though. And we'll also say that a full 200 games have bugs, despite it being somewhere under 200 (between 100 and 200). That would mean 200 out of 16,000 games have the slightest of bugs. That's 1.25% - a small percentage as far as I'm concerned. And it's more than likely that at least 50 of them are still playable and another 50 were corrected in the last firmware update. Closer to 0.625%, then. Seriously, man. If you think that "only" having 15,800 of the previous generation games is 'not backwards compatible' then you're supplying incorrect information, because over 98% of the time, the games will work just fine. Probably closer to 99%.
Sonys spokesman himself said that 8,000 games were malfunctioning and didnt even mention if they were going to fix them or not.
http://articles.news.aol.com/busines...00010000000001


So? Still sold more than any other console in history.
So what? My point is that a price decrease wont be coming around soon and even if it did it would still be around $400 for a 60GB.

Then it's your own damned fault for selling your PS2 before buying a PS3. That's just a stupid thing to do, plain and simple. Logic says that you find out if your games work on the new console before you sell the old one.
If the manufacture claims that the PS3 is backwards compatible then I like any other consumer am going to take their word for it. How is it my falt if the manufacture told me the system could do something and then ends up not being capable of peforming what they claim it could.

Furthermore, it's notable that the PS2 isn't any more backwards compatible than the PS3 is,
and the PS2 was massively successful. However, newer versions of the PS2, notably the slimline one, appear to play a lot of them fine - this shows that Sony worked to get more PS1 games to work on the PS2 over the years.
Wrong again the PS2 had no problems playing PS1 games I never had a problem with any PS1 game on the PS2 and I never heard anyone complaining about problems with PS1 games on the PS2. It was fully backwards compatible from my and many other peoples experience with it.

Sony will probably continue to keep this in their mind and do the same for the PS3. The difference? Firmware updates mean you don't need to buy the whole console all over again!
Who knows or maybe they'll just cheap out and ignore the problem. Considering its blue ray it might be hard to play other CDs on it in the first place.

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Thats not a small percentage, 8,000 games is alot and thats for just PS2 games alone who knows how many more PS1 games the PS3 cant play.
Do you even read the articles? It clearly said over 8,000 games work on the PS3.

I'm having trouble figuring out if you're just a troll or not.
Did you read?

But Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Satoshi Fukuoka said some of the 8,000 older games weren't working properly on PS3, making the wrong sounds or images, and some couldn't be played at all.
From that article and this article http://articles.news.aol.com/busines...00010000000001 .