Phil Harrison has recently confirmed that Sony expect to have over 1,000 PS2 games working via emulation on the Playstation 3 once it launches in Pal regions. Here is an excerpt taken from an interview....
seriously though, there's almost 3500-4000+ titles for the DC(dreamcast) which stopped production YEARS ago. there's still games being made for it today, and you question whether there are 10,000 titles for the PS2???
cow RAIST+ DEEEEEPDOWN, chill,relax..............I'm not here to destroy the SDF squad today :]
no need to get ALL anaylitical, and sceptical. Did you add/consider all the chinese/korean "Blackmarket" titles?...................bet you didn't did ya? MORE FOOL YOU *shakes head in pitiful manner*
Oh and there are a hell of a lot more ps2 games in Asia...around 2,000 more that are never released in the states or Europe...As far as I know 2000 ps2 games have been released in Europe, so this "over 1000" figure is very very good. I am surprised. And surprised that they are not aiming at seperate games like xbox, but creating an emulater that works with the most games, and improving on that emulater...now that is VERY good news! - What that means is that their obnoxious comment "we won't be concentrating on it in the future" is OK because they only need one emulater and lots of games will fall through it and be compatible - especially new games I'm guessing, so they won't need to worry about new games. Sweeet
Uhm guys like DJ said with hardware emultion 7800 out of 8000 work or something like that.
So if 1.000 work with the PAL software emu, that's 7 times less! That's insane. Plus, first seeing, then believing. I've heard more promisses from Sony which they didn't deliver on.
I guess well hear the horror stories @ the 23rd of March!
@ PanixATK (below)
What was your gamertag on your sold 360 dude?
@ Deepbrown
Thanks for clearing that up. But I bet the 1.000 working titles will be taken from the 4.000 released in Asia. So that's 25% then.
If you take that over 2.000 released in Europe you'll get 500 games running. If what they say is true. Mostly with Sony they overpromise & underdeliver
The Mart! There is backwards compatibility for all ps1 titles! And expected over a 1000 ps2 titles. That's 7000 out of 8000 (Europe had around 2000 games released...Asia had 4000 games released) As far as I know the states had less titles than Europe released - around 1700 (this is of december 2006) ...so that percentage is very high. And the reason is that their approach to software emulation is a very good one. They don't have to tackle games seperately which is expensive, time consuming and doesn't yeild the same numbers (360 280games - 30% BC)...but we will have to see if the upscaling is true.
Yah, sure, they're gonna work on crazy asian games that never got out of asia (not even for import, I'm sure) and they're gonna drop the compatibility of games like Okami, GoW, FFXII, etc etc. And all this for the EUROPEAN launch.
Umm...I'm not looking for a fight here guys, but are we expected to just take Mahmoud's word that Phil Harrison has really said all this?
Don't get me wrong; I'm not questioning the author's integrity in any way, just his journalistic skills! The absence of a link to his source for the information reduces the article to nothing more than hearsay, in my opinion.
the fact that ps2 has such a large library means there would be plenty of games playable at launch. i'd be willing to bet the number will be closer to 1500 at euro launch or right after
66% day one so looks like your not getting screwed after all, unless you wanted to play "barbie's ponny ride"
no more worries here
let's see, 1000 titles are BC out of nearly 10,000?
that's wot? %10?
if %10 is deemed good and as "no worries here", then what was the big deal with the 360's BC issues?
%10 is poor no matter which way you look at it SONY. pull your socks up, your looking tired.
there are only 1500 ps2 games friend go look it up 10,000? where did you get that from?
Add all ps1 games and that percentage jumps considerably.