2007-11-07 19:06:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Games & Gear ➔ PlayStation
Money, it would of cost Sony even more too put the 'Full' in the 80GB, Thus, making them price it even more outrageously than it already is. Most people aren't really focused on playing out-dated PS games anyway, everyone is wanting the new gear.
2007-11-09 19:24:17 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. This Guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They also believe that because the PS3 has about 65 games out by christmas, people won't care all that much about the back catalogue of about 2500 PS2 games,
As far as they are concerned, there is no point in fixing games like DMC1-3 when DMC4 is coming out, or fixing MGS2 and 3 when they can still play MGS1 and MGS4 coming out.
It's just bad marketing really. They promised full backwards compatibility but were taking a huge dive because the PS2 is still selling well, and the cost was too high.
2007-11-08 20:27:53 · answer #2 · answered by SaberBlade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why doesn't Sony put the 'Full backward compatibility' in the 80GB PS3?
because people dont want to pay big money
2007-11-08 03:24:32 · answer #3 · answered by Zee 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
iT's Sony's marketing strategy Make PS2 games only playable to the PS2 to increase that evergrowing profit. PS3 is just losing to much money and Sony is just making the smart decision to keep the PS2 living past its expiration date.PS2=profit, PS3=debt. PS2 balances the money and unless the PS3 finally becomes the system to live up to its potential then backwards compatibility is just not here now. PS has more juice than the 360 PS is just a sleeper and when it wakes it will take the world
2007-11-08 03:08:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bugz is a moron. They removed the "full" backwards compatibility because people were bitching about the price. To cut costs they removed the emotion engine (the PS2 chip which the 60gb version has built in) and replaced it with software emulation, which isn't 100% effective.
Then they bumped up the amount of hard drive space and bundled it with a game to increase sales.
2007-11-08 03:43:11 · answer #5 · answered by Cenobia 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
To reduce price of the console. They had removed Emotion Engine PS2's CPU. Production price of EE - around 30$.
2007-11-08 22:28:47 · answer #6 · answered by Bull Goose Loony 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they want you to buy the next step up.....its all a marketing scheme...to make money......
2007-11-08 03:08:53 · answer #7 · answered by Bugz 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋