Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
...but at least it covers more games than the 360's.
Oh come on. You're comparing a Playstation library of 12 years of games to the Xbox which is only half as old. That's hardly an accomplishment.

If they do what Microsoft is doing/has done and focus on their 'best selling games', this won't be an issue. If they can get the best/most popular PS2 games working, no one is going to care about 'crap licensed game X' not working on their console.

Also, I wouldn't call this backwards compatibility thing 'slightly gimped'. This is still related to the PAL PS3 list from back in March so it's likely outdated (for one, I think MGS2 works fine now, where it wasn't working originally). The initial percentage of working PS1/PS2 games on PAL PS3:

PS1/PS2 PAL Games Combined
Total Games: 5,021
Total games working: 2,826 (56.29% of all games)

* No known issues: 1792 (63.41% or working games)
* Minor issues: 473 (16.74% of working games)
* Noticeable issues: 561 (19.85% of working games)
I haven't been able to find a comparable, more up-to-date list that is presented like this.

I'm sure a large, possibly majority of the non-working games are games no one really cares about, so it would do them well to focus on the few n' proud.

I still haven't seen Sony USA mention anything about the list of supported games, but it will come.

Still if you're planning on getting a PS3, Kotaku's advice is sound.