PS3 Details Slowly Emerging

The Playstation Magazine (PSM) has a feature coming up in the next issue which discusses Sony's new console with a few new details. Both Maxconsole and Ferrago have a look at the piece. From the Maxconsole article: "We've received a lot of letters asking about how PS2 will be backwards compatible with PS2 and the original Playstation if it doesn't have memory card slot. Well, we have an answer, and it's both good and bad. First, the bad news: All of those old memory cards you have won't be usable with PS3. Okay then, wha's the solution? Sony has actually decided to only use Memory Stick Duo cards(the same format PSP uses) for PS3 save data. However, if you play a PS1 or PS2 game on PS3, the system will treat the Memory Stick like it's a normal memory card."

I predict 100% backwards compatibility...

[It doesn't come easy]

We've received a lot of letters asking about how PS2 will be backwards compatible with PS2 and the original Playstation [...]

Compatibility

[BigZaphod]

"about how PS2 will be backwards compatible with PS2"

Boy, I hope they are compatible! I'd hate to buy a PS2 and find myself with a suddenly obsolete PS2 when the PS2 comes out a week later or something. That'd suck.

Re:This won't be a problem at all.

[Gr33nNight]

Tell that to my mother who enjoys playing Harvest Moon.

Re:What doesn't it do?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, dumbass.

Ha! Who's the bigger dumbass, me or the people that modded me as insightful?!

Re:Oh come on people...

[bleaknik]

After reading your comment, I ran some numbers. I've got enough games that I still want to complete that I figure I should be done just in time for the next Duke Nukem title.

Wait a minute.................

Re:What doesn't it do?

[nunchux]

I guess I can laugh at my brother for buying a $300 DDR dance mat that won't work with a PS3

Let me get this straight... Your brother is dancing like an idiot in front of the TV set, and the reason you're laughing at him is because his dance mat won't work with the next generation consoles?

Re:What doesn't it do?

[Weirdofreak]

I could be mistaken, but I thought Sony had been saying for a while that the PS3 was a supercomputer*. Here we go, although the link's been eaten:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/25/ 1758219&tid=233&tid=212 [slashdot.org]

*for values of supercomputer made up on the spot