Sony ’s PS3 is embedded with the Emotion Engine (EE) microprocessor and the Graphics Synthesizer (GS) drawing circuit developed for its precursor, the PS2. Ken Kutaragi, President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), revealed this today to confirm all 8,181 PS2 games will work on PS3.
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Microsoft just posted a Backwards Compatibility update, with 39 new games and 9 updated games –the largest number of new games updated since the original list of over 200.
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The PlayStation 3 could be backwardly compatible with pretty much every original PS2 and PSone game according to IBM’s Tom Reeves, the man who’s in charge of semiconductor and technology services at IBM.
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Tim Schafer is now pleading for those gamer’s help in writing Microsoft to let them know how much they love Psychonauts and that Microsoft needs to make the game playable (backwards compatible) on the Xbox 360.
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