Can the Ps3, Ps2 incompatibility issue be resolved in an update?

Question

I have a PS3 and I'm SO disappointed that you are unable to play a ps2 game. I have realized that the sony company removed the part of the playstation, its called a BC I think, but I don't know what it means. Apparently they removed it because they thought people would keep buying PS2 games instead of buying ps3 games, so they removed it. That sounds a little bit ignorant to remove it like that when they could just have kept it, don't you think. Anyway, I don't know if the BC is a physical component or a virtual one, I was wondering: "could I make my PS3 play PS2 games if I get an update".

Answer 1

BC simply means backward compatibility; the ability for one piece of hardware to play software designed for an eariler version of the same hardware line.



The early PS3s were able to play PS2 games because they basically had an entire PS2 in them. However, this added about $100 to the manufacturing cost of the PS3, and the high price tag ($500-$600, depending on the model) was the main complaint against it. Later, Sony developed a PS3 program that could emulate the PS2 Central Processing Unit (CPU), so they put that into the early 80GB models and removed the CPU. This, along with other cost reductions, let them drop the price by $100. Then they decided that the PS3's game library was large enoguh to stand on its own, and removed the Graphics Procissing Unit (GPU) of the PS2 from the PS3, allowing for another $100 price drop. They never replaced this with an emulator, and several high-quality tech sites like Endgadget reported that the hardware in the PS3 is so dramatically different in design that it cannot properly emulate the PS2's GPU.



It's not that they removed it for the sake of stopping PS2 gameplay. It's that they removed the hardware to do it in order to make the price far more palatable, and were unable to emulate it.

Answer 2

Who knows what the insides of the PS3 itself well other than PS3 themselves. What I am saying is that BC issue cannot be just resolved by a simple firmware update BUT there could be a secret component inside the PS3 that allows this to happen via a firmware update.



I hope I didn't lose you.



So maybe someday this secret gadget on the insides of the PS3 can be a tool for BC if the proper firmware command is applied via an update.

Answer 3

there is possibility that sony is working on it because of the fact they only patented an emulation engine for the emotion engine that's the proccessor interior the ps2s so in case you some months sony will probable launch the emulation engine in the tip of this twelve months/ christmas with firmware 3.0 strategies-blowing now the ps3 is on 2.80 and the final firmware replaced into 2.70 so which you will carry your breath and in case you do a google seek you will discover many outcomes approximately sony patenting ps2 emulation application.