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RealDiamond · 21-08-2009, 22:55

Why are people Surprised BY Cheaper = Stripped.
You've Gone from £425 down to £249. Smaller HDD than 160GB MODEL. NO PSN Game content worth £50 and LINUX add on removed from its firmware. NO BC and NO SACD and loss of 2 USB ports. no memory card readers. May also need a third party stand to stand up right now.

PS2 games WILL only a playable By PSN downloads Sony wrote the BC CODE conversion library for Developer kits to convert the PS2 CODE to the PS3s Power PC CELL, PS3 is not run on INTELL CPUs, The Developers were not able to Justify the cost by doing it them selves.

For example FF7 worked on all PS3s and PS2s. FF8 does not. It fails to run on most PS2s and its Failure rate is even higher on PAL 60GB PS3 models and this is just a PS1 title that has these problems.

21-08-2009, 22:55	#29
RealDiamond Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bournemouth Services: Free^60meg No, Free^30meg Yes, TV M, Phone M. Running Kubuntu 12.04+Chromium Browser On Free laptop Posts: 457	Re: PS3 Slim officially announced and pricing Why are people Surprised BY Cheaper = Stripped. You've Gone from £425 down to £249. Smaller HDD than 160GB MODEL. NO PSN Game content worth £50 and LINUX add on removed from its firmware. NO BC and NO SACD and loss of 2 USB ports. no memory card readers. May also need a third party stand to stand up right now. PS2 games WILL only a playable By PSN downloads Sony wrote the BC CODE conversion library for Developer kits to convert the PS2 CODE to the PS3s Power PC CELL, PS3 is not run on INTELL CPUs, The Developers were not able to Justify the cost by doing it them selves. For example FF7 worked on all PS3s and PS2s. FF8 does not. It fails to run on most PS2s and its Failure rate is even higher on PAL 60GB PS3 models and this is just a PS1 title that has these problems.