I heard that a regular Playstation 3 can't play Playstation 2 games, but that you can buy certain PS3s that can. Is this true? And if so, where can I buy one and for how much?
2007-12-16 08:24:01 · 5 answers · asked by hannah 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Games & Gear ➔ PlayStation
The 60gb and discontinued 20gb can play most if not all PS2 games.The 80gb can play play like 80% of the PS2 games as it uses software not hardware to do so. The 40gb cannot play any PS3 games. All PS3's can play PS1 games tho. The PS3's price varies depending on where you live, but 80&60gb is $499.99 and 40gb is $399.99. You can buy them anywhere, Walmart, BestBuy, Costco, or online Amazon, Ebay, Dell (Dell.ca has great deals for Canadian shoppers!)
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2007-12-16 08:45:29 · answer #1 · answered by NotTheStatusQuo 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The 20gb and 60gb version have complete hardware compatibility. There may still be bugs, but these are your best bets for ps2 games.
The 80gb version dropped the ps2 cpu, but has the ps2 graphics chip and supports software emulation of the cpu. It supposedly can still play most ps2 games.
The 40gb version has no ps2 hardware and no software emulation either. It cannot play ps2 games. It can play ps1 games through software emulation if I'm not mistaken.
2007-12-16 08:49:21 · answer #2 · answered by qwerty42 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely you're able to notice than an 80GB PS3 can't play PS2 video games(different than for an emulator on the version with the chrome trim: which has emulation utility on it, permitting to play maximum folk of them, yet that quantity is supposed to be ~70% or much less), purely the not in production unique 20GB and the not in production 60GB can play *all*(minimum of ninety% of all produced PS2 video games) PS2 video games(as they have the emotion engine, hardware inbuilt to the equipment to allow for play). wish that enables!
2016-10-11 10:16:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the ps3 80 gb i own and it can play most of the ps2 games and i asked the gamestop owner and he told me that ps3 keeps updating their software if u can conncect it 2 the internet and one upgrade will play all ps2 games on a ps3 80gb idk about the 60 40 or 20 sorry about those
2007-12-16 09:14:31 · answer #4 · answered by SP 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure but I thought all PS3s were able to play PS2 games...
2007-12-16 08:33:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋