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http://www.1pstart.com/ps3s-backward...ssues-revealed
The PS3 must really be a bastard to program for. Because they manage to make PS2 games look even worse. Surely this can't be that hard to fix.
Now I don't care about PSone games (the only PSone game I still have is Final Fantasy Tactics), but that would not be cool to play a PS2 game like that.
So keep your PS2 folks if you plan on getting a PS3, until this is fixed.
LOL....Sony can't win.
I love to kick Sony. But, given the price of a PS2 (i.e. pretty cheap), I don't think this is such a big deal. Most likely a PS3 owner will have a PS2 lying around.
I dont see what the big deal is about backwards compatability. Manufactureres go through so much trouble to get thier hardware to be backwards compatable. Sony put PSone hardware in the PS2 and I guess they did the same with the PS3. If you want to play your old games then keep your old systems. It would reduce the cost of the new systems.
Wow that is a huge difference. Sony touts their BC and brags about it. They actually poked fun at MS for the troubles they were having with the 360's BC saying nothing but 100% is acceptable. Now look at this crap.
awesome, looks like quake 3 on an S3 virge in software mode.
Sony's going to go bankrupt. Lawl.
my eyes!
Seriously, fire those programmers.
It actually takes more effort to go backwards in time...
Remember: This isn't running under emulation either, which means it's even more eff'd up.
Wow, the ps3 is a year late AND it still keeps having new issues. Sheesh. On the bright side, they still make good looking TVs!!! :)
Oh now backwards compatibility isnt a big deal...but when it was xbox not having a large library, people were screaming bloody murder
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Im pissed at this actually, i've got over 16 PS2 games that i would've transfered on PS3 if i ever decided between that and 360 next year.
I just dont want to keep a PS2 laying around because PS3 has shitty BC, some peoples dont mind having a bazillion cables behind their TV and dont mind having over 3 consoles under the TV, but i do, i like clean and efficient looking room. I ditched my GC for Wii, its money that also serve to buy the new console.
The jaggies can and will probably be fixed in a future update, i mean sony can say it doesnt exist or it just wont be noticed, but trust me, they said the same for PS2's dying laser drives back in the days and they kept saying its a non-issue, but internally, they were working hard to setup a support just for that problem.
There also seems to be a serious problem with PS3's color output, jaggies can be fixed but the color output... without altering everything else, its messed up, PS2 already had the worst color output out of all 3 consoles, and PS3 looks even more gray. Noticed this too in the 360 vs PS3 comparison videos on gametrailers.com. If blueray movies were affected by this aswell, i wouldnt even touch PS3 has a movie player with a ten foot pole.
Lame again. I don't know why consoles can't get this right (speaking of which, how to original Xbox games look on the 360?). This just turns more people to emulation. I can make PSX games look really nice on my PC, along with any other emulation of an outdated system. Sony should of put some effort into making PS2 games look at least as good as normal, but rather look better than usual. PSX games look like dung on the PS2 though so this doesn't surprised me too much.
XBOX games on the 360 actually look a bit better, and get anti-aliased and upscaled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adaman
Oh wow, that looks terrible.
That looks horrible. I didn't think the difference would be that dramatic.
I realize that the blog entry insinuated this, but do we know for a fact that this is Sony's stance? Assuming that it's even true... anyone have a PS3 to confirm? Is this being reported by any other sources?Quote:
Originally Posted by BuggyLoop
Depends on the game. Besides I can't play soul calibur II on new xbox. Sux. I owned 3 games for xbox and that was one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idiot356
So far with firmware updates I don't think sony has released any patch notes or whatever you wanna call them. So I would guess they will fix it and just never actually acknowledge the problem.
their backwards compatibility was crap from the start. they at least attempted to make ps1 games look better with the ps2, but now they've gone and made ps2 look worse. wth? seriously is it that hard to add a little FSAA for ps2 games with the ultimate "power of the cell processor"?
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Originally Posted by Idiot356
not all games are compatible
I think it is apparent that neither company is too awfully concerned with their BC. Xbox doesn't support but what around like 10% of games and PS3 makes the games look worse and wasn't there reports of not all games working also. I don't think it is a big deal regardless but people like to use it as some major selling point even though they will in all likelihood never even use it.
Neither company is concerned you say? 10% of XBox games you say? You're wrong, good sir, very wrong indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by fastitocalon
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/back...ygameslist.htm
That is the list of XBox games that work 100% flawlessly on the XBox 360.
That list entails 268 games in total. I'm not positive how many games there are total for the XBox, but my guess is that there isn't 2680 games for the original XBox. That's just me, though....
HA! I just wanted to make sure my ps3 worked, I havent bought a game for it yet because there isnt one that I am interested in. I did throw a megaman game for the ps1 in it and to be honest didnt notice any horrible decrease in appearance.
I wont have time tonight but I will test this tomorrow with a ps2 game.