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February 23, 2007
European PS3 to be inferior
As a European I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m used to getting inferior products ages after everyone else gets better versions for half the price. In particular Europeans often get shafted when it comes to video games consoles. Take Sony?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s PS3 for example. It launched in November for Japan and the US and it finally comes out over in Britain late next month. It will cost me substantially more that other territories as well. So its late and its more expensive. Now it turns out that its inferior as well. Which is nice as I never expected that.
Sony have announced that its breath taking new console will in fact play fewer PS2 games that Japanese or American ones. How fewer is unknown but I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d imagine that it would be considerably less that the 98% of PS2 games that the PS3 can play elsewhere in the world.
In the other versions of the PS3 the console has dedicated chips to handle backwards compatibility. European PS3s will do away with this and reply on software emulation instead. The Xbox 360 replies on software emulation as well which is why Microsoft?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s console cannot play anywhere near the complete collection of original Xbox games.
Sony loses money at first on each PS3 sale due to high production costs which could explain why the chips have been removed.
So if you?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢re a Playstation fan you are going to have to hang onto your PS2 to play your game collection. And those who are new to the Playstation consoles I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d recommend getting a ?Ǭ£50 PS2 from Asda, if you can find one.
Reference for posting: http://news.yahoo.com
AndyD | Comments (1) | Consolegadgets,gadget,gadgets shop, latest gadgets, new gadgets
Check out the description on the PS3 on techselector.com ….. What do you think of the situation with the connector cables?? Is there a better way to go or what?? Its under product reviews, gaming hardware. Im an idiot… Im just going to put a link to it so its easier:
http://www.techselector.com/review_playstation3.html